Heat Pump Installation & Replacement
Heat Pump Installation & Replacement
One system for both seasons, sized for a Florida cooling load first — because that is what it spends the year doing.
A heat pump is the default choice for a Florida house because it covers both seasons with one piece of equipment and does the heating side far more cheaply than electric resistance heat. The design priority, though, is cooling: this climate spends the overwhelming majority of the year rejecting heat and removing humidity, so the system is sized to the cooling load and the heating capability follows from it.
Sizing is where Florida heat pump installations most often go wrong. Oversize it and you get short cycles, poor moisture removal and a house that is cold and damp — the specific complaint we hear most in Central Florida, where inland humidity has no sea breeze to help it. We calculate the load, and if the answer disagrees with the tonnage that was there before, we would rather have that conversation at quote stage.
The other decision is auxiliary heat. Florida needs some — there are nights when a heat pump alone will not keep up — but strips that are oversized or badly staged are a standing invitation to an enormous winter bill. We size and stage the auxiliary heat to the handful of nights it is genuinely for, set the lockout properly, and show you how the thermostat is configured so you can see when it is running.
When a heat pump is the right choice
- Replacing an ageing air conditioner that is paired with electric strip heat
- Winter bills dominated by resistance heating rather than the heat pump
- A property that needs both cooling and genuine heating from one system
- A rental or second home where a single reliable system is easier to manage
- An existing heat pump past its economic life or on obsolete refrigerant
- New construction or an addition being sized properly for the first time
What a heat pump installation includes
- Load calculation with the cooling load leading and heating capacity checked against it
- Matched indoor and outdoor equipment, with the rated efficiency actually achievable
- Auxiliary heat sized, staged and locked out correctly for a Florida winter
- Line-set flush or replacement, new filter drier, charge weighed to specification
- Duct and return capacity assessed before the equipment is specified
- Permit, inspection and disposal of the old equipment handled as part of the job
- Commissioning in BOTH modes — cooling and heating verified before we leave
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Heat Pump Installation & Replacement across Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach
Salt air, year-round cooling load, and high-rise condo systems with limited access.
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Heat Pump Installation & Replacement across Polk, Orange, Osceola
Genuine winter nights, heavy inland summer humidity, and heating that actually gets used.
Central Florida coverageHeat Pump Installation & Replacement — common questions
Heat pump or straight AC with strip heat?
For most Florida homes, the heat pump. It costs a little more up front and considerably less to run on the nights heating is needed, because it moves heat rather than generating it. Straight cooling with strips still makes sense in some situations, and we will say so when it does.
Will it heat the house on a genuinely cold night?
Yes, with correctly sized auxiliary heat behind it for the coldest hours. The point of good staging is that the strips assist rather than take over — that is the difference between a normal January bill and an alarming one.
Do you commission the heating side even in summer?
Yes. A heat pump installed in July that has never been run in heating mode is a system nobody has actually tested. We verify both modes at commissioning, which is when a reversing valve or staging problem is cheap to find.
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