Podcast episode (Derek Cole) answering a listener question: contrasts gas furnaces and electric heat pumps, noting heat pumps are electric while furnaces commonly use natural gas or LP. Discusses dual-fuel systems—recommendation to use heat pumps until about 40–45°F then switch to gas for efficiency—and offers practical home comfort and energy-saving advice, ending with community call-to-action.
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I'm Derek Cole, host of the Derek Cole Podcast, and we believe in taking the time to explain how things work for your air at home or your business. Let's get into today's episode. Please listen closely and maybe even take some notes so you can remember these insights of home comfort and energy savings. And share this episode with three of your friends because we all need to share better ways to be more comfortable at home. Be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram Derek Mcole so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening. And let's begin.
What is the difference between a heat furnace and a heat pump?
Gas furnace and heat pump. Now, you do have some electric furnaces. I haven't seen those in many houses outside of mobile homes. And in mobile homes you have electric furnace in the closet area and then you have an AC outside that is not efficient. So what we do in that situation is we actually put a heat pump outside, keep the electric furnace inside as a backup heat source. So when you talk about furnace, you usually don't want gas. So the difference is gas versus electricity. So when you have a gas furnace, you have natural gas, LP gas operating that furnace heat pump is strictly electric. There is no gas involved in it unless you get a dual fuel system. Now we get the phone calls, quite a bit of, hey, the gas is going really skyrocket. I want to change out my gas. I want to go straight electric. And the answer to that is dual fuel. You can do it in a package or split. And basically it is more efficient in this climate or any climate really, once you drop below 40 degrees is more efficient to heat with gas than electricity. And the reason being is that electricity, you have to use the backup heat source when it gets really cold outside. Using that backup heat source works, but it is quite expensive. So the best way to have it is heat pump until it gets to about 45, 40 degrees, switch over to gas using the best of both worlds and, and you're getting the most out of each system because, you know, get at 50, 60 degrees if you want to turn the heat on, electricity is the way to go because it's very simple for it to operate in those temperatures, whereas gas is not as efficient as electricity in that situation. So furnace, you talk about gas and heat pump, you're talking about electricity.
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