A southern summer can simply wipe you out if you aren’t familiar with how to deal with them.
- But, the upside of that is a trade off worth making.
During the 4 months of summer, the heat is brutal. However, once it’s over, the next 8 months are nearly as perfect as weather can get. Having lived where the HVAC furnace ran for more than 6 months out of the year, I will make that trade everyday. I also really prefer the HVAC heat pump to having to deal with a furnace or any other type of heating method. I know that the heat pump will more than do when it comes to taking care of the chill during the middle of our winter. Granted, those temperatures rarely get below freezing. But even then, the heat pump makes our home super cozy. It just blows my mind how it does this. You see, all the HVAC heat pump does differently in the winter is change direction. By that I mean when the thermostat is switched to heating, the heat pump simply reverses the refrigerant flow. Really, that’s all that happens. The heat pump helps cool the house by removing heat energy from the home and exhausting it outside. So when it’s time for heat, it reverses flow and pulls heat energy from the outside air and brings it inside. It doesn’t need any other help until the temps dip to 40 or lower. When that happens, there is an electric grid which produces extra warming to supplement the heat energy the heat pump grabs from outside. It really is a wonder.