Heat pump units require being hooked up to your home’s furnace. Although we think exclusively about the heat when it comes to our furnaces, we often forget that home air circulation is a big part of the furnace’s job.

Heat pumps, unlike furnaces, produce chilly or warm indoor air using electricity rather than a gas flame to produce heat. It also means that using a heat pump throughout the colder fall and spring months will result in decreased utility costs, giving your gas furnace a rest.

When we connect a heat pump unit to your furnace, we may add an evaporator coil unit to the existing furnace system above the furnace fan if you don’t have one already. This allows the furnace fan to blow cool air throughout our homes thanks to the refrigerant that runs through the copper pipes of the evaporator coil and you heat pump (as seen in the heat pump diagram).