by johnsoax Question by bumbypie: What is forced air, hydro heat and central air? I am looking to buy a townhouse and the ads keep saying that the heating and cooling system is hydro heat or forced air or heat pump. What are these things? Which one is better in terms of maintanence costs? If [...]
by J. Paxon Reyes Question by bumbypie: What is forced air, hydro heat and central air? I am looking to buy a townhouse and the ads keep saying that the heating and cooling system is hydro heat or forced air or heat pump. What are these things? Which one is better in terms of maintanence [...]
by PAgent Question by justAguy: Do heat pumps replace a furnace? Currently, my house has a forced air heating system being run off a furnace that’s in a 4-foot crawl space. The cooling is through in-wall AC units. I’m a little nervous about carbon monoxide spreading, both under the house through the open area crawl, [...]
Question by Rezo: Why do heat pumps use outside air? I know how the process works but I can not find out why they use outside air. Air conditioners grab air inside seperating the heat and blow it outside then lets the conditioned air back in. Why doesn’t the heating process do the same thing [...]
by ACEP UAF Question by annie: How old is our heat pump/air conditioner? We just had to fix it and was unable to find out the age of our unit. It’s an Armstrong unit that says “Concept 1000 High efficiency heat pump” on the top of the outdoor unit. The model number is SHP10E30A-3 and [...]