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State-of-the-art heating and cooling for your home
A Dual Fuel system combines an energy-efficient air-source heat pump with a new or existing oil, gas or propane furnace. The furnace provides supplemental or primary heating in winter, avoiding costly heating charges. This marriage of heating sources can help substantially lower your home heating costs.
How it works
In the spring and fall, the heat pump extracts heat from the outside air and pumps it into the house, warming the house more efficiently than with electric resistance heat. Even winter air contains a substantial amount of heat.
On cold winter days and nights (below 30 or 40 degrees Fahrenheit) back-up heat from the fossil fuel furnace is used.
In the summer, the heat pump reverses its cycle and acts as a central air conditioner, extracting heat from inside your home and pumping it outside. A Dual Fuel system will cool and dehumidify your entire house.
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