Zero Percent Financing, Heat Pump Installation, New Westminster
A central heat pump from Eaton's Heating gives your New Westminster home heating and cooling from one outdoor unit, through the ducts already in the house, and a steadier, quieter kind of comfort than a furnace and an air conditioner give on their own. We handle the whole job, from the free in-home assessment and written quote to the day the system is running. We install Trane, RunTru, and KeepRite heat pumps, and the quote covers the complete installation, from the outdoor unit and indoor coil to the electrical work by a certified electrician and removal of any old unit. Financing at zero percent over 12 months is available.
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A central heat pump has the same two pieces as central air conditioning: an outdoor unit and an indoor coil on the furnace. The difference is that it can run in reverse, so the one system cools the house in July and heats it from October to April. In a New Westminster home the gas furnace stays where it is and becomes the backup, paired with the heat pump to take over on the few nights the heat pump cannot keep up. A thermostat that runs both switches between them. That is the usual setup for a heat pump installation here. The assessment covers the furnace, the ducts, and the spot for the outdoor unit, and the written quote names the unit and the work.
The reason a heat pump suits this city is the winter. New Westminster's January runs around 7 degrees by day and 1 at night, with a real cold snap a few nights a year, and that is the range where a heat pump moves heat cheaply and the furnace hardly runs. It also changes what we recommend. Cold-climate heat pumps are built to hold their output at minus 15 and below, and in the Interior that matters. Here, the coldest nights are the furnace's job, so the money is better spent on a variable-speed unit that runs low and steady through the mild months than on capacity that would sit unused. Our technician sizes the unit from experience with the house, the ducts, and the winters here, and the quote reflects that.
Most of the heat pumps we install in New Westminster go onto gas furnaces in The Heights, Glenbrooke North, Massey Heights, and the West End, in two-storey houses over a basement where the coil sits on the furnace and the outdoor unit goes in the side yard or at the back on the lane. On the narrow lots in Sapperton and the West End, Trane's low-profile side-discharge heat pump fits against the house where a standard unit will not. Queensborough and Victoria Hill townhomes usually already have an air conditioner on the furnace, and a heat pump replaces it using the same copper run and coil position. Our New Westminster HVAC services page covers what else we bring to these homes. Eaton's Heating is TSBC licensed (LGA0200006), a Home Performance Contractor Network member, and holds a 4.9 rating across 400-plus Google reviews.
On installation day the crew sets the pad and the outdoor unit, fits the matched coil on the furnace, runs the copper lines and the drain, and our certified electrician wires the disconnect at the unit and the breaker at the panel. The thermostat is replaced with one that controls the heat pump and the furnace together, so the switch between them happens on its own. The system is charged, started, and tested in both heating and cooling, any old unit is taken away, and the Trane warranty is registered on your behalf. Most installations are finished in one day, and the heat pump is running by the time we leave.
A single-stage heat pump has one setting: on or off. It starts at full output, runs until the thermostat is satisfied, and stops, then starts again at full output a while later. A variable-speed heat pump has a compressor that changes its output in small steps, from a low idle to full power, and it settles at whatever level holds the house at the set temperature. On a mild New Westminster day that is a low, quiet hum for hours rather than a loud start every twenty minutes. The rooms stay within a degree of the setting instead of drifting up and down, the outdoor unit is quieter outside a bedroom window or a neighbour's fence, and the compressor goes through far fewer hard starts over its life.
It is also the setting that suits the climate here. A variable-speed unit at low output is at its most efficient, and New Westminster's long stretch of days between 2 and 10 degrees is exactly where it stays at low output. In summer the same slow running pulls more humidity out of the air than a unit that cycles on and off, which matters in a city this humid. The trade-off is price: variable-speed is the top of the Trane line, and a single-stage or two-stage RunTru or KeepRite unit costs less and still heats and cools the house well. The assessment shows you both, and the quote can show a second model beside the first.
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Most of the central heat pump installations we do here land between $7,000 and $9,000, and up to $12,000 where the job is more involved. The written quote from the free in-home assessment gives you the exact number for your house, covering the outdoor unit, the matched indoor coil, the copper lines, the drain, the thermostat, the electrical work by a certified electrician, and removal of any old unit. Financing at zero percent over 12 months is available.
Rebate programs come and go, and the CleanBC and FortisBC offers on heat pumps have changed more than once in the last few years. Eaton's Heating is a FortisBC Trade Ally and a Home Performance Contractor Network member, so any rebate CleanBC, BC Hydro, or FortisBC offers on the equipment we install is available through us, and we walk you through the application for whatever applies when your heat pump goes in. Current programs are on our BC rebates page.
Yes, and in Queensborough and Victoria Hill townhomes that is the most common heat pump job. The heat pump's outdoor unit goes where the air conditioner's was, on the same copper run and the same coil position, and the furnace stays as the backup. If your air conditioner is under ten years old and working, keep it. If it is older or failing, replacing it with a heat pump adds heating for roughly the cost of a new air conditioner plus the added cost of the heat pump unit itself. If what you already have is a heat pump and it is failing, our heat pump repair in New Westminster page covers when a repair still makes sense.
Nearly. On a typical January day the heat pump carries the house without the furnace running at all. On the few nights it drops well below freezing, the thermostat switches the furnace on, and the house stays warm. That is why the furnace stays: it is the backup for a handful of nights, and it means the heat pump never has to be sized for the coldest night of the decade.
No. Mini-splits are a different kind of installation, with wall units in each room and a separate outdoor unit, and they are not something we do. We install central heat pumps on a furnace and ductwork, which is the right system for a house that already has ducts. If your home has no ductwork, a mini-split is likely the better fit, and we will tell you that at the assessment.
Yes, and it is in the quote. A heat pump paired with a furnace needs a thermostat that can run both, decide which one is heating based on the outdoor temperature, and switch between them without you touching it. The thermostat you have for a furnace alone cannot do that. The new one is set up on installation day, and the technician shows you how to read it before leaving.
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