I have a 2 story house with a heat pump for the upstairs...and I hate it. It causes so many problems that we just keep the heat very low up there so that the heat drift from the 1st floor furnace does most of the work.
When it runs, you can never set it higher than 2 degrees F above the current temperature and if you do that when it's even close to freezing outside the unit will build up a think layer of ice around the casing...which just makes it spin constantly until we turn it off to go manually de-ice it. It's the most hated piece of equipment in my entire home.
Do you have a reference for one of these more effective modern heat pumps? I've been sincerely planning to install geothermal when this thing dies.
When it runs, you can never set it higher than 2 degrees F above the current temperature and if you do that when it's even close to freezing outside the unit will build up a think layer of ice around the casing...which just makes it spin constantly until we turn it off to go manually de-ice it. It's the most hated piece of equipment in my entire home.
Do you have a reference for one of these more effective modern heat pumps? I've been sincerely planning to install geothermal when this thing dies.