It can be really confusing when it comes to new ways to heat and cool your home.
Climate control is big business.
I remember when I was younger, we relied on window air conditioners. We lived in several places while I was growing up and sometimes the heat came from steam radiators, other times our heat came through vents. As a kid, like most other kids, I never paid much attention to how homes were heated and cooled. As a teenager and young adult, we lived in the south, in a wealthy area where almost everybody had central heat and air conditioning through self contained units on the side of the house. Those who didn’t have central heat and air conditioning used window air conditioners. Imagine my surprise when my husband and I were making plans to build our home up north where we were relocating and we had all these options to heat and cool our home. Imagine heating your home through baseboards! And I thought radiant heated floors were just a silly luxury; I didn’t know that they could be used to actually heat the home. Not only was there a lot of technology that I was unfamiliar with, it took quite a bit of research to learn about it all. For example, the ductless mini-split heating and air conditioning unit may not provide sufficient heat for northern climates and a geothermal heat pump may take a little longer to warm up the house. I’m still sifting through details before we make the decision on how to heat and cool our new home, but, it’s nice to have a lot of choices out there.