Will a Heat Pump Help with Condensation?

Moisture and condensation inside your home can cause a number of problems, including causing mold and mildew to grow indoors. When it’s cold outside and warm indoors, condensation can form on your windows and walls. Heat pumps can be used to heat and cool your Oklahoma City, OK home—but they can also help lower the humidity. Read on to learn more!

How heat pumps work

Heat pumps are different from normal heaters—instead of igniting a flame, they use electricity and coolant. The coolant takes heat from the air outside your home. Then it’s compressed, which intensifies the heat. The coolant is moved indoors, where cool air blows over the hot coolant. The hot air circulates around your home, heating each room.

Heat pumps have two main components: the outdoor unit, which captures the air, and the indoor unit, which is mounted against a wall. This “cassette” has thermostatic controls to provide both heating and cooling functions.

This heating unit uses electricity, so be aware that if you install one, your electric bills will be impacted. Assuming daily use, it will cost between $50 and $100 to operate each month. However, your gas or oil consumption will go down and should save you money.

Why use a heat pump?

Heat pumps are not just useful for eliminating condensation. They’re also a more efficient heating system. Traditional heaters can take a long time to build up heat and blow it through the ductwork, which can create cold and hot spots around your home. Heat pumps are designed to heat instantly and circulate the air. This distributes the heat evenly throughout each room.

Heat pumps effectively remove humidity with warm circulated air. As the condensation builds on your windows, the warm air moves throughout your home to dry the moisture. At the same time, the heat pump’s filter removes dust, pathogens and other airborne particles from the air.

Most heat pumps come with a “dry mode” feature, which will remove humidity after the room is heated. Use dry mode when you’ve already reached the desired warmth—it only circulates air, rather than using the heating element.

Other ways to reduce humidity

Getting rid of humidity can be helped by improving your ventilation and insulation. Ventilation prevents damp air from building up indoors, which causes condensation to develop. If it’s not possible to open windows and doors for a few minutes each day, you can use fans or your heat pump to remove humidity.

Insulation also helps. Keeping your home’s ambient temperature at a constant level helps prevent moisture and humidity fluctuations. If your insulation is less than effective, you’ll probably notice a big difference after it’s been replaced. Plus, you’ll save more money on your heating bills, since your heat pump won’t have to work as hard to warm up your house.

When you need a heat pump system installed, repaired or serviced in Oklahoma City, OK, get in touch with Dailey Heating & Air Conditioning right away. We look forward to serving you!

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