About 2 years ago, my hubby and I decided to transport much further south.
Both of us were tired of the sub zero temperatures and snow.
We’d spent too various years being trapped inside for more than half the year and being reliant on a gas furnace. Both of us were ready to trade our snow shovels, ice scrapers and wool overcoats for afternoonlight block, sandals and shorts. When all of us started looking for houses to buy, all of us discovered some big differences between properties in the north and south. None of the houses have basements, and the windows aren’t thermal paned. The sods are mostly sand and the majority of homes are outfitted with an electric heat pump. Both of us had never heard of a heat pump before. This type of program combines both heating and cooling capacity by reversing the flow of refrigerant. In the summer, it pulls heat out of the house just love a conventional a/c. In the winter, it takes advantage of ambient heat in the outdoor air. It’s an especially safe, scrub and energy efficient process however only effective until the outside temperature drops below cold. Fortunately, all of us were shopping for houses in an part where the weather rarely gets colder than the mid forties. Our main concern is the summer time temperatures in the high nineties. Both of us run the heat pump in cooling mode the majority of the time. I love that it’s entirely quiet and environmentally friendly. It does a wonderful job of handling excess humidity and filtering out air contaminants; My hubby and I are so much happier living in a milder temperature.