Derek ColeGM, Simmons One Hour Heating & Air · AI HVAC Answers

Heating without Compressor HP

28 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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28 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Derek Cole explains why relying on an indoor electric furnace as your main heat source costs way too much. The better approach for mobile homes: add an outdoor heat pump and keep the electric furnace as backup to cut heating bills significantly.

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So when you use that backup heat as the main heat, which will happen when your compressor is out, you're gonna have some five, six, seven light bills. It's gonna be quite painful, but it will work. We do a lot of modular homes and mobile homes, and their original setup is air conditioner outside, electric furnace inside. Well, we do. We go back with a heat pump outside and use that electric furnace inside as the backup heat source. That's going to saves them a lot of money because now your primary heat is the heat pump. Your secondary heat is the electric furnace. So I would never use the secondary as my primary because of light bill reasons. But yes, to answer your question, it will work. Do I recommend it? No, I don't.