Alternative Heating and Air Conditioning Options in Kalamazoo

The world of heating and air conditioning has a wide range of options for homeowners of all backgrounds.

When most people think of heating their home, they understandably think “furnace.” By the same token, most people that think of cooling their home tend to think “air conditioning.” However, there have never been more viable options for home heating and cooling than there are today.

Today, our team at JP Heating & Air Conditioning wants to give some love to the underappreciated home heating and cooling options available today. If you want more options than a conventional furnace or AC unit, then this is the blog post for you. In this month’s post, we’re discussing heat pumps and mini split systems that can change how you heat and cool your home forever.

How Heat Pumps Make for Warm Winters and Cool Summers

Don’t be fooled by their name—heat pumps are just as good at cooling as they are at warming.

Where furnaces generate heat by burning gases, heat pumps mostly just move existing heat around. What do we mean by that? Well, it’s easy.

Using only a fraction of the same energy that furnaces use, heat pumps work by drawing in and filtering warm air from outside sources. Heat pumps detect and vacuum in warm air from the world outside and even underground, where they filter this air, transport it, and distribute it throughout your home.

Because the process makes use of existing warmth instead of generating new heat, it is considerably more environmentally friendly than gas and electric furnaces. But what happens in the summer?

Well, heat pumps are still amazing for summer usage because they work just as well in reverse. When it gets hot, your heat pump will pull the heat out of your home and pipe it outdoors, lowering your home’s temperature to a comfortable level. And don’t worry—this practice is eco-friendly too, since it filters the air it transports and is essentially just pumping the air we breathe.

Mini Split Systems

If heat pumps are an alternative to furnaces, then mini split systems are an alternative to standard air conditioning systems. What sets mini split systems apart is that they have the ability to control the temperature of individual rooms instead of just an entire building.

Mini split systems heat individual rooms by pumping hot and cold air directly into rooms through a simple series of 3-inch pipes. This way, they can deliver warm and cold air only to areas they’re told to. At the same time, they’re able to save a tremendous amount of power compared to a furnace.

Where a furnace expends power with the express purpose of bringing the entire home up to a certain heat level, mini split systems only heat where you tell them to. As a result, mini split systems end up saving their owners a surprising amount of money in the long run.

Are you interested in installing heating and air conditioning options that can get the job done better than your conventional furnace or AC unit? If so, click here to contact us today for more information.