When all of us bought our home, it was already outfitted with a forced air oil furnace. The oil furnace is powerful enough to handle the seriously low rapidly changing temperatures all of us get in this area, but however, all of us had no centralized cooling system, but while the local summers aren’t all that long, the temperature often remains in the high eighties with terrible humidity for weeks at a time. The beach house quickly becomes sticky, boiling and unbearable; I wasn’t ecstatic with window cooling systems in particular rooms. I contacted a professional HVAC corporation for an quote on a whole-house cooling unit. He recommended that I purchase a heat pump rather than an cooling system, however at first, this sounded adore a crazy idea. All of us already had the air duct in place for a conventional cooling system and a heat pump costs a lot more to install. However, I did some research and combining a heat pump with a oil furnace actually makes a lot of sense. It’s called a hybrid heating plan and works to save quite a bit of money on year round temperature control… During the Summer weeks, the heat pump manages to keep the beach house nice and cool and costs less to operate than an cooling system; Plus, it’s better at getting rid of excess humidity. When the weather cools off, the heat pump switches over to heating mode and provides especially energy efficient heating! Because it simply moves heat from a single location to another rather than burning fossil fuels, it’s more environmentally friendly as well; Once the temperature drops below chilly, the plan automatically switches over to the oil furnace.