Heat Pump Services in Cedar Rapids
A heat pump does not create heat; it moves it. In summer, it pushes heat out of your house, exactly like an air conditioner. In winter, it reverses, pulling warmth from the outdoor air even when that air feels cold and delivering it inside. Moving heat costs far less energy than making it, so the cost of running a heat pump generally comes in below what a combustion-based system ends up costing you.
Rabe Hardware has installed heat pumps across Linn County for years, and the appeal is simple: one machine handles both seasons. The unit that cools your house in July is the same one that warms it in October, making maintenance much simpler.
Call (319) 308-5853 or contact us online to schedule a free estimate for heat pump installation in Cedar Rapids today.
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Expert Personnel
The knowledgeable and experienced staff of Rabe Hardware are experts in solar, geothermal, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and fireplaces & stoves. We are your one-stop-shop!
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We are proud to provide our customers with same-day service! Whether you want to order a furnace filter or need an emergency repair, you can depend on Rabe Hardware to take care of you.
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The experienced technicians and installers of Rabe Hardware are trained to service all major brands for both residential and commercial products and systems.
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All equipment and materials used by Rabe Hardware are installed per the manufacturers’ specifications. We stay by-the-book and never take shortcuts.
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Our technicians and installers are fully licensed, insured, and professionally trained. With extensive industry experience, we at Rabe Hardware will get the tough jobs done and done right.
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Rabe Hardware offers flexible, low-interest financing options through EnerBank USA and GeoSmart to meet both your needs and your budget.
Air-Source vs. Geothermal Heat Pumps
Both systems move heat rather than burn fuel, but they pull it from different places.
An air-source heat pump exchanges heat with the outdoor air through a unit that looks much like an air conditioner, and it can be installed in a day or two on almost any lot. Geothermal draws from a buried loop field, where the ground maintains a steady temperature year-round.
Geothermal costs more up front and requires land for the loop, but it rewards you with performance that never flinches at air temperatures. On the other hand, air-source systems cost far less to install, fits city lots, and cover the great majority of Cedar Rapids homes.
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How Heat Pumps Perform in a Cedar Rapids Winter
Cold-climate-rated heat pumps hold usable heating output down to zero degrees Fahrenheit and below, far past the point where earlier generations of equipment quit. Before you buy anything, we give you the manufacturer's published performance data for the outdoor temperatures Cedar Rapids reaches in January, so you can see what your house would get on the coldest night of the year, rather than at a mild rating point.
Many local homeowners choose our dual-fuel installation, which pairs a heat pump with a gas furnace. The heat pump handles the long shoulder seasons, when it runs at its lowest operating cost, and the furnace takes over below a changeover temperature our installer sets during installation.
We can come back each fall to tune both halves of that system and reset the changeover temperature based on your current gas and electricity prices, because those prices fluctuate and the savings depend on the crossover matching them.
Ductless Mini-Splits for Cedar Rapids Houses Without Ductwork
Many of the older homes from Czech Village up through New Bohemia were built around radiators and a boiler, decades before central air existed. There is no ductwork in those walls, and installing new ductwork is practically out of the question. Retrofitting trunk lines and returning air into a house framed that way costs a small fortune and takes finished ceilings down with it.
A ductless mini-split solves the problem from the outside in. Our installer can mount a slim indoor head high on a wall and run a refrigerant line through a small hole to the outdoor unit, often completing the installation in a single day.
Every head runs on its own thermostat, so the guest room upstairs holds 68 degrees while the living room stays at 72. That independent control is why mini-splits do so well in the spaces a central system was never sized to reach: additions, finished attics, sunrooms, and garages.
Our technicians hold the Lennox Powered by Samsung designation, the factory training these high-efficiency systems require to install, and we service and repair mini-splits from every manufacturer, not only the brands we sell.
Call (319) 308-5853 or contact us online to see whether heat pumps in Cedar Rapids make sense for your house.