[Josa]

We replaced our gas heat with a heat pump. It’s awful. Cold all the time.

[blackdog]

Heat pumps give a spread in the two degree range, so the air being circulated as heat may only be two degrees warmer than the intake air being circulated. It will always feel cold.

That said, I always enjoyed ours. But we also had a wood burning fireplace stove insert that could give us the ambiance and intense heat warmth if wanted.

The best I ever had was a heat pump and a coal stove. The coal stove took only two ten pound buckets of coal in 24 hours. The ashes would go in the gardens after getting mixed into the compost pile. Coal burns really hot. We used to open windows if it got too warm.

[Mean Daddy]

In the Midwest you have both a heat pump & furnace. If it goes below 30, your heat is provided by the furnace & you’re right, the heat a heat pump puts out doesn’t warm you as much.

[Gasshog]

We can really tell a difference in gas heat in our present residence to the electric heat we used to have - it’s toasty and to keep the temp at around 68 it doesnt seem to have to run as much, so the cost maybe cheaper?

But winter’s just begun, some howling blue northerns will likely raise the bill!

[palmer]

We replaced our gas heat with a heat pump. It’s awful. Cold all the time.

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