Is a heat pump right for your Oklahoma home?

The average cost to replace your heat pump system or upgrade to a heat pump system is going to be between $8,000 and $23,000 just depending on the size of your home and the efficiency level that you opt for. The average 13,450 but again that average is pulled up by the folks who are choosing a little bit more efficient system. And the median cost is 12,860. [music]

For us in Oklahoma, air conditioning systems have to handle some really extreme weather. We've got really humid summers, we've got dry winters, and we've got really big temperature swings. So, air conditioners in Oklahoma have to really be matched to be able to handle really cold and really hot within a fairly short amount of time.

okay here's kind of the two schools of thoughts on heat pumps it's cold outside or you're not getting a lot of heat out of your heat pump shut it off and let your heat strips take care and save your wear and tear on your on your heat pump the other school of thought is the one that I subscribe to is even though it's cold outside there's still heat outside in this cold air that we can capture and we can send it inside by using the heat pump and by doing this we can still heat your house or your business effectively a typical house may have three heat strips in it and each heat strip will pull 20 amps of power so when you're heating your house you're going to be pulling 60 amps to heat your tricep whereas your heat pump it pulls 20 amps about approximately give or take even though we're not getting as much heat out of the outside air and sending in as we would on a warmer day we can still heat your house and save money by running your heat pump and using 20 amps of power as opposed to running 60. so let your heat pump run let's stay warm

Tucker, how does a heat pump work? >> A heat pump works by taking heat from one area and putting it in another. I'm going to show you a doodle that I spent a really long time making. I worked really hard on it, so you better be nice. This is how a heat pump works. I really hope you like it. We're taking cold refrigerant, blowing it off into the outdoors, warming it up inside, heating your home. Warm home, happy you. I hope you like my doodle. [singing] >> [music]

on a total electric home where maybe you don't have natural gas or maybe you just don't want to deal with the propane company anymore. Most of the time what we see is a uh electric furnace or an air handler that has resistance heating. And as anyone who knows who has one, uh I'm sure I'm pushing on a pain point here, which is it is expensive to run those heat strips. So, what we've done is with a heat pump is we're actually able to run a heater in your house, keep your house nice and comfortable for the price of running your air conditioner as opposed to the price of running your electric heat strips. That is the price breakdown. [singing] >> [music]

pretty much the uh most common question we get is will a heat pump save me money and I'm going to go with yes because if you have everything properly sized we can get that thing really really efficient the only caveat I ever give is if you have a gas furnace and you live in an area where gas is just Dirt Cheap I would say we can definitely save you money by uh putting in a heat pump [Music]

heat pumps worth it? Bottom line is yes. I mean that's the simplest answer. Even today what we're looking at with the cost of gas going up and other energies like that, heat pumps can be a actual reasonable source to mitigate not having a gas furnace go off all the time and and at certain temperatures you can actually save quite a bit. So, yes, all the way around a heat pump can be very beneficial to you and your household. Your home.

So, when you're looking at a heat pump, the average size is about 3 and 1/2 ton. When you're looking at that cost, you're looking at a somewhere around $12,000. Uh when you're looking at the AC unit and you're looking at costs, like I said, for a 3 and 1/2 ton, you're actually looking at more like 10,500 on average. So, those are definitely price differences in both of these. Obviously, we do have a couple more parts on it. There's a little bit more technology with the heat pump, so that is going to factor into how it's done. Usually, manufacturers usually like to make their heat pumps a little bit better built because they are going to have to obviously run in different scenarios as opposed to just running in the summertime, hot hot weather. You're going to have to be running in the hot and the cold. So, there you have it. It's about $1,500 difference, you know. So, tell us, what kind of decision are you going to make? Your >> [singing] >> home. >> [music]

If you have a heat pump, we can actually reverse that process and bring heat from outside inside so that it heats up your home in the winter when the temperatures are a little bit more mild. And that's honestly why we think heat pump technology is so cool and has gotten really good over the last several years.

So, when we go to talking about heat pump, this part is the part that makes this a heat pump. A very important part. It's going to allow us to do that where we can have this operating in the heating season or operating in the cooling season, saving that money all year long. I would highly suggest a heat pump and with that being said, let's go before we go to one more part. I'll talk about this. Heat pumps are great units. If you ask me, you've heard us talk a lot about the negatives of heat pumps, but I would say the positives of heat pumps is how much money you save. If you actually go and do the math on a standard AC unit versus a heat pump, even if you have a gas furnace, you have electric furnace, I don't care what kind of other heat source you have with it, a heat pump is going to do better and by all means, argue in the comments below. I can show you the math. That's what I'm going to go off of. Your home. >> [singing]

can a heat pump heat a whole house yes that we can definitely heat a whole house with a heat pump especially if we calculate the load and that that's where it's going to be crucial is you need to calculate what your heat load is going to be on that house it's not hard it it takes a little bit of work of measuring and seeing how things are and we can definitely do a calculations on what you need for your home that's always what seems like when people don't have what they need it's because somebody came out there and they just sold them on the idea of a heat pump and they didn't look into what you actually need to have that heat you actually want [Music]

A heat pump at its base level is going to be more efficient than the base model air conditioner. That's because heat pumps start at just a higher efficiency. But a heat pump is a transformer of sorts. We can have it heat your home in the winter time by running it in reverse. So it runs more often than your air conditioner. So it is going to get more usage. It is going to lower your utility bills, especially if you are a an electric only home as opposed to the cost, I should say, of running electric heat strips. So, whenever you're comparing what should I buy, why should I buy it, there's kind of some tears to this, [music] right? [singing]

got a good free spinning fan blade fan motor no slack whatsoever so I'm going to call this healthy as far as we know for now the only thing we've not tested is with it running like to use these digital gauges cuz everything reads out to an app to my phone I can look at my refrigerant pressures my indoor temperatures my outdoor temperature static pressure all at once we've done all our uh all the tests we can do with the system turned off checked the bearings on the fan motor did a bench test on the capacitor did a visual inspection on the contactor visual inspection on this coil it is clean and fire it up [Music]

the heat pump was running just fine but the furnace wasn't kicking on so there's no gas it's very cold in the house when the temperatures drop real far the heat pump struggles to work which is why you have to have backup heat and so what I found was it was not igniting so I had voltage going to my igniter but it was not glowing and it was not coming on an igniter is one of the cheapest fixes that you can make on a furnace igniter is typically $250 some customers don't mind spending that and they just want to keep putting Band-Aids on on it and kick it down the road as far as they can which is fine you know this is as cheap as it gets there's not really any cheaper repair that would need to be made other than this igniter

can a heat pump replace a furnace and uh yes a lot of these units they're 100% capacity at 13 so that that's amazing they have actually taken heat pumps in Alaska and they don't have backup heat they just have straight up a heat pump and an air handler inside and they're keeping up with the band so it is possible but there's all kinds of different flavors when it comes to heat pumps and the capacity range and so the short answer to that can a heat pump replace a furnace yes young Rose [Music]

Five star review. Janice demo. She gave us a fivestar review. [music] Fall maintenance on a dual fuel system. Robert was professional and friendly. Repaired and tightened a couple leaks. Looking forward to seeing him again in the spring. Awesome. Janice, thank you so much for your fivestar review. And uh thank you to Robert for being so professional and awesome. On on Janice's house, she has a a dual fuel system. It is a a heat pump and furnace. So it would be a the outdoor unit would be a heat pump so it can heat [music] the house in the winter time. But as backup you typically have a furnace. So [music] a gas or natural gas or propane furnace as backup heat. So it's good to get it maintenanced uh both seasons, hot and cold. [singing] >> [music]

Especially when temperatures drop, you know, just as drastically as they have. Out of those components, which ones are more likely to fail the quickest? >> So, I would say the motors. Okay. If If they've been dormant for a little while. >> Mhm. >> Um you know, we we had those those temperatures where it was in the 70s, you know, the lows in the 50s. So, the HVAC system is not running a whole lot. >> Mhm. [music] >> Uh so, when when that system is dormant for a while and then you put it under a lot of stress just all of a sudden like when the temperatures really dropped and you put it under all that stress, things are going to start to break down. >> Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. >> Your home. >> [music]

This is completely normal. If you have a heat pump and you see condensation on the outside and it's sweating, this is a completely normal process. Uh we get questions all the time from homeowners who have heat pumps uh where the uh the outdoor unit is sweating in the winter time. It's producing water and they just want to make sure that the system is doing what it's supposed to. And I'm just going to I'm here to let you know it is doing what it's supposed to. No need to sweat cuz your heat pump will. [music]

One thing you got to realize when you're dealing with heat pump, you are running that heat pump more during the year. You're not running it quite twice as much during the year as much cuz you're going to be picking up some other things. You're obviously going to have some emergency heat kick on sometimes and stuff like that. So, those are always factors, but you're going to run it a lot more. So, with that you're going to have a lot more wear and tear. So, that's something I always consider when you're going with a heat pump. You will have parts that will wear out faster because you will be using it more. But in the same sense to whereas you have an indoor unit and you could be using like electric heat with a heat pump, which is the most efficient a heat pump's way more efficient than that electric heat. And that's the way you really want to go is to have that efficiency. It would pay for itself. And you're going to wear out those parts one way or another. So, even the same thing as a standard AC, let's say you had a gas furnace, you're going to be wearing out other parts. Your >> [singing] >> home. >> [music]

Doesn't matter how fancy of the system you buy. If your if your duck work is not sized appropriately, that new system or the existing system is going to struggle to run an operator. It is the delivery system that brings you comfort when you need it the most. And if your duck work is not sized appropriately, then you're not going to be comfortable in the way that you need to be comfortable.

another popular question is how does a heat pump work and so short little answer in air conditioning mode all we're doing is removing heat from the inside and putting it in a more desirable space which at that time is outside uh with that with the heat pump all we're doing is we're reversing that refrigerant flow so instead of taking heat from inside and putting it outside we're taking heat from outside and put it inside we actually have a video right now where we take apart this heat pump and show you how it actually works young Rose

hey guys it's Canon with Y brro and Suns I'm out at a customer's house today cuz their heater was down so they've got a dual fuel system which means they've got a heat pump condenser and they've got propane so what it's going to do is the heat pump's going to kick on First and when it can't keep up the propane's going to kick on right now I'm checking amp draws on my inducer motor every motor has a recommended amp draw and so I want to make sure that it's within the range that the manufacturer has set if it's not if it's too low it can cause issues if it's too high it's a sign that it could be going going out and need to be replaced

I think uh dad he had a professor at University of Okamogi whenever he was studying air conditioner technologies is he said there is no such thing as cold it's just the absence of heat to which I ask isn't that the same thing but apparently not so as long as we have heat outside and until we hit absolute zero and that's like on the Kelvin scale there is still technically heat to be pulled from the uh from the atmosphere now that does not mean that it's going to work in in those conditions So, typically what we see with heat pumps is heat pumps in Oklahoma, you're going to be able to run a heat pump constantly. Uh you're going to be able to heat your home uh pretty much to your exact desired set point, barring the one to six days a year that we get that are just absolutely from the uh cold bitter depths of hell. Uh, and outside of those six days, uh, a heat pump is going to be great because it is so much more efficient than any other heating source, barring like a 98 or 99% gas furnace, period. [singing] [music]

How much does it cost to replace a heat pump or maybe upgrade to a heat pump? Well, it costs between 8,000 and 23,000. But, before you go, let me tell you why. That 8,000 to 23,000, that's covering from a 1 and 1/2 ton system, which is going to be like, you know, a small starter townhome around like 900 to 1,200 square feet, all the way up to a 5 ton system, which can cover like 2,000-ish square feet, depending on your insulation. Average cost to replace your heat pump system or upgrade to a heat pump system is going to be [music] between 8,000 and 23,000 dollars, just depending on the size of your home and the efficiency level that you opt for. The average, 13,450, but again, that average is pulled up by the folks who are choosing a little bit more efficient system. And the median cost is 12,860. Young Rose. >> [singing] [music]