Heat Pump Services in Brookhaven, GA

From the yard, a heat pump could pass for any condenser, yet it moves heat in either direction. During July it pushes indoor heat outside, and once the weather turns it flips and draws warmth inward from the outdoor air. That suits a place with drawn-out sticky summers and short, gentle winters, and it also means more parts have to cooperate. A reversing valve switches between modes, a defrost control clears frost from the outdoor coil, and backup or auxiliary heat strips step in when the temperature drops hard. Some owners pair theirs with a gas furnace so that the furnace handles the bitterest nights. Plenty of calls we get are not failures at all. Steam rising from the outdoor unit on a cold morning is a normal defrost cycle. A unit that runs for long stretches in winter is often doing exactly what it should. When something is wrong, though, such as a reversing valve stuck in one mode, a defrost board that never ends the cycle or backup heat running all the time, we test, explain and repair it. When a heat pump has reached the end of its useful life, we size the replacement to the house and its ducts and look at whether a hybrid setup would serve you better.