All Electric or Retrofit the furnace with a heat pump?
Thanks for any advice.
I live in Colorado, and we're doing a big remodel. I have a house that the manual j calculations think I need about 47000 BTU's to heat my house. I have a 12 year Armstrong Air furnace that runs fine, but has needed some work in the past year. I have brick walls, pretty old windows, and the house is about 2100 sq feet (half of that is above ground and half below).
Option 1: adding a heat pump on top of my furnace that uses the blower motor and control panel of the furnace. They recommended a 4 ton heat pump and 21" evaporator coil dual-fuel system ACIQ-48-HPD or EVOX by Midea. Cost is only $6650.
Option 2: replacing the entire system with a the same heat pump above and an electric air handler and 5kw heat strips. Cost is $12,200.