When the people I was with and I moved in, our condo was already equipped with a fairly new forced air furnace, but unluckyly the lake house lacked central air conditioner. While the weather in our local section tends to be cold and snowy for the majority of the year, our brief Summer season can bring high un-even temperatures and horrendous humidity! My spouse and I both agreed that the people I was with and I wanted a cooling system installed. I contacted a local Heating and A/C company for an estimate, and after inspecting the home, he recommended that the people I was with and I invest in an electric heat pump. Since a heat pump is way more expensive to purchase and install than an air conditioning system, I was reluctant. I did some research and l received that combining an electric heat pump with a natural gas furnace is called a dual fuel system, and it provides all sorts of advantages. A dual fuel system pays for itself in energy savings. This is because the heat pump is more efficient than a conventional air conditioning system or furnace. It combines heating and cooling capacity and works by simply moving existing heat between the inside and outside of the house. In the summer, it operates similarly to an air conditioning system, pulling heat from the indoor air and pumping it outdoors by way of refrigerant. The luck is that the heat pump is effective at dehumidifying and costs less to run. For heating purposes, the heat pump avoids burning fossil fuels and utilizes ambient heat in the outside air. The operation is clean, safe, quiet and really environmentally friendly. The negative of a heat pump is that it struggles to keep up with demand when the temperature drops below chilly. At that point, the furnace starts up and handles the heating needs for as long as necessary.