FTS Heating & Cooling

Start with setting aside any myths you may have heard about heat pumps. Specifically, Geothermal Ground Source Heat Pumps, which are the most cost-effective long-term solution to heating your home, period. Unfortunately, the heat pump industry took a bad rap because of some contractors. In order to maximize profits, contractors installed heat pumps that were too small and couldn't heat the home on the coldest days.

Look at the chart below. It shows that controlled humidity between 40 and 60 percent is the best environment for your health and extreme humidity, either high or low, favors the demons that cause you ill. They say a dry heat is more comfortable, but that's not true in the winter. Humidity is essential to comfort, and when it's too dry you can suffer from cracked skin, which could lead to permanent wrinkles.

Some years back we ran a contest for "the oldest furnace" with the intention of helping out a homeowner who didn't have the means to replace their old furnace, but desperately needed to. The contest was successful in that a homeowner did get a new heating system installed; however it fell short of our intentions, so we dropped the program.