Pump Attic Heat Back Into House

The house is total electric and i have been installing through the wall heat pumps for comfort.

Pump attic heat back into house. Our house has roughly the same sq footage downstairs as it does up maybe 1 100 upstairs and 1 300 downstairs. If you had a thermostat in the house and in the attic so that it would only run when you need heat and the attic is hot. What do you think. It has a wood burning heater but not for real heat.

The rest of the time you heat your home with a heat pump. Heat pump in attic good idea or bad. I have a 2 story barn style house built in the late 60 s with not a lot of cellulose left in the attic. Find a good hvac contractor to help determine how well it s working.

Here s why it might be a good idea. Heat pumps blow less hot hot air. If your heat pump and supplemental heat source can t keep your house warm 25 f you need to find out what the problem is. A heat pump is in its simplest explanation an ac condensor that has a reversing valve allowing the process to reverse and bring heat into the home rather than remove it.

Heat pump pricing for the geothermal heat pump itself range from 1 500 to 13 000 depending on the model not including installation. However an air water heat pump has one disadvantage and that determines the best place to install it. It is the perfect companion to the solar panels on the roof and low temperature heating in your home. Solarattic sells a system the pool convection system 2 that sucks hot air out of the attic of your house and pumps it into a heat exchanger to heat your pool.

Now i don t know what to do. Some installers believe that placing these systems in a garage or attic space may make the system more efficient by decreasing the difference in temperature. What about using an attic fan in reverse to draw hot air out of the attic and into the house. Our duct work for the first floor is in the crawlspace and for the second floor the ducting is between floors with baseboard registers throughout.

As a result you experience slower less severe air. When private individuals bring a heat pump into their house this is an air water heat pump in 80 percent of cases. What you probably have in your attic is the air handler the piece of your system that blows moves the air through the coil and ducts. Depending on the size needed to heat and cool your home or business installation can cost 10 000 or more.

When it s running the air produced by a heat pump is definitely warmer than the ambient temperature but not as hot as the air produced by a gas furnace. It would need a damper to keep from losing heat when not in use. I went back into the attic a few days ago and unplugged it again. But it s precisely because of these disparate temperatures that you should place your heat pump and air conditioner condenser outside.