About two years ago, our hubby & I decided to transfer much further south.
- We were tired of the sub zero un-even temperatures & snow.
We’d spent too several years being trapped inside for more than half the year & being reliant on a gas furnace. We were ready to trade our snow shovels, ice scrapers & wool jackets for sunlight block, sandals & shorts. When both of us started looking for houses to buy, both of us discovered some large differences between properties in the north & south. None of the houses have basements, & the windows aren’t thermal paned. The sods are mostly sand & the majority of homes are outfitted with an electric heat pump. We had never heard of a heat pump before. This category of system combines both heating & cooling capacity by reversing the flow of refrigerant. In the summer, it pulls heat out of the home just enjoy a conventional air conditioner. In the winter, it takes advantage of ambient heat in the outdoor air. It’s an especially safe, disinfect & energy efficient process however only effective until the outside temperature drops below chilly. Fortunately, both of us were shopping for houses in an section where the weather rarely gets colder than the mid forties. Our main problem is the summer time un-even temperatures in the high nineties. We run the heat pump in cooling mode the majority of the time. I enjoy that it’s genuinely quiet & environmentally friendly. It does a nice task of handling excess humidity & filtering out air contaminants, but my hubby & I are so much happier residing in a milder climate.