I want to ask you gurus something.
First of all, I hate hot weather, don't mind winter, so cooling is important to me. I want better more reliable air conditioning than I do heating. My house is very well insulated, a single story, brick only 1600 sq ft and I can actually turn my heat off on winter nights and stay comfortable.
Unless it gets below 20 or so. I have some great south windows and also plan on a wood stove next year, so like I say -- screw the heater.
Right now, I have a TRANE heat pump that needs a new compressor, so I've been using the auxillary heat on the furnace once in a while but mainly, a
1500 watt space heater and I feel fine.
BUT --
I friggin love air conditioning and when it's over 80 here in the midwest, I'm miserable.
I have a lot of fans to help keep things dry, like I say, a well insulated house but I'm surrounded by woodlands and close to a river so it gets damn humid around here.
So, tell me what I should do.
Do I really need a heat pump?
I do want to save on my cooling costs so I would rather spend more in that department for 2 reasons --
(1) It's power consumption and efficiency factors and
(2) RELIABILITY
Every AC I've ever owned has ended up with a bad compressor after 5 years or even sooner and seeing as no one will just replace a compressor and I'm not a licensed contractor, I have to shell out big bucks for a new condensing unit.
&^%$ that.
I do like to save money anywhere I can so should I stick with a heat pump?
Is my system adaptable to doing something else? Especially considering my desire for some quality AC? What would you do?
The TRANE outdoor unit is 2twb0030a1000b
the furnace is twe031e13fb1
thanks for any help on this.
First of all, I hate hot weather, don't mind winter, so cooling is important to me. I want better more reliable air conditioning than I do heating. My house is very well insulated, a single story, brick only 1600 sq ft and I can actually turn my heat off on winter nights and stay comfortable.
Unless it gets below 20 or so. I have some great south windows and also plan on a wood stove next year, so like I say -- screw the heater.
Right now, I have a TRANE heat pump that needs a new compressor, so I've been using the auxillary heat on the furnace once in a while but mainly, a
1500 watt space heater and I feel fine.
BUT --
I friggin love air conditioning and when it's over 80 here in the midwest, I'm miserable.
I have a lot of fans to help keep things dry, like I say, a well insulated house but I'm surrounded by woodlands and close to a river so it gets damn humid around here.
So, tell me what I should do.
Do I really need a heat pump?
I do want to save on my cooling costs so I would rather spend more in that department for 2 reasons --
(1) It's power consumption and efficiency factors and
(2) RELIABILITY
Every AC I've ever owned has ended up with a bad compressor after 5 years or even sooner and seeing as no one will just replace a compressor and I'm not a licensed contractor, I have to shell out big bucks for a new condensing unit.
&^%$ that.
I do like to save money anywhere I can so should I stick with a heat pump?
Is my system adaptable to doing something else? Especially considering my desire for some quality AC? What would you do?
The TRANE outdoor unit is 2twb0030a1000b
the furnace is twe031e13fb1
thanks for any help on this.