Recent content by TRITOON

No, it wouldnt be worth it. If you want to add some space heaters, wood stove, pellet stove, etc for the coldest days of the year to increase comfort, then go for it. But it running 21 hours on the coldest day of the year isnt horrible. If its running non stop for days/weeks then yeah, propane...

I'm 1 state north of the OP. I have a carrier heat pump at the lake and use a non-smart heat pump with emergency heat backup thermostat. Some of the digital ones have setting sthat after 30-45-1hour time amounts if heat set points arent reached it goes to emergency. God, i hate explaining it...

I've had rheem/ruud heatpumps on previous houses, and ive had my current Carrier heat pump on my lake house for 6 years. I have personally witnessed other lake neighbors heat pumps reversing valves stop working and their condenser unit becoming a huge block of ice while they were away during...

I leave my lakehouse in electric strip (emergency) mode during the winter when we arent there and havent had any issues the last 6 years. With that said, i have the water turned off at the meter, water pipes opened, and interior temp set to 45 degree....I have a heat pump, but i hate worrying...

This was around 15 years ago and the unit was on a house I only lived in for 3 years. It was a rheem/rudd heat pump. It was installed correctly but maybe some of the issues where related to the dual stage technology being newish at that point. I just remember a lot of headaches and wishing I...

I put in a single stage heat pump at the lake, over the years I've gotten real big on the beauty of simplicity after having a home that has a complex system and required many service calls basically each year. Easily ate up 5x and savings I was getting. I also hate the, is it running, why is it...

I had this installed (can easily do it yourself) a few weeks ago and has been life changing for my family of 5. I was getting ready to go into some big time expenses for tankless (7-9k), or some insanely large capacity like 80 gallon, but figured i would try this first at $100 on our existing...

OP..... Have you looked into your thermostat settings? On my primary house we have units that are only about 0.5-1 ton oversized. But during times of the year when its coolish outside or cloudy, the upstairs can seem to want to over cycle. All the cool air would fall downstairs, ac would come...

Ditto. People dont take lifestyle into account. If you live alone, or if you and your partner work outside of the house the majority of the day then oversizing is great. For years my wife and i would be gone most days from 5-6 am - 6-7pm at night, on the weekends we were active and out and...

I'm not a huge fan of ventless indoors. Safety aspect mostly, but im also not fond of the smell or moisture build up. No matter what anyone says, if you are burning it in a modern house you will have build up of gases eventually. Direct vent no question. But outdoors on a screened/screen less...

I have a gas fire pit and i love it. I've done cutting, stacking, rotating wood, lighting it, worrying about wind direction, waiting for it to die down or putting water on it and potentially messing up the brick, and everyone smelling like smoke and needing showers afterwards. Give me a beer...

That is a really good price for a trane unit. I repalced one in middle america (trane 15 seer, 2.5 ton or 3 ton, single speed) this summer for 11k. All the qoutes i had were from 7k-13k. But we have a historic home, lots of complexity with the install and drains in the second floor attic and i...

To the OP, that sounds odd. They always used a locater to mark our electric and gas. About 8 years ago we built a house, and used it a couple of times, and at our new (very old) house, we've already used it a few times. Its free, they do it within 1-2 days. Looking back we were on well water...

my heat pump only makes the noise during heat mode, at first it worried me, but it just last about 5 seconds and i think its in part due to the 2 story rise from the floor level to second floor.

instead of the disk led lights, use the recessed housing with a traditional bulb housing. so in the future it will just be changing a light bulb.