Heat Pumps That Heat and Cool in Nahant, MA

Yes, provided the unit is a cold-climate design and its capacity comes from a true heat-loss count. That equipment is rated to keep producing heat in serious cold. Air sealing and insulation help them do it with less effort. If you keep the old boiler, integrated controls switch to it only in deep cold.

It is a Mass Save program loan at 0% interest, up to $25,000, made by banks and credit unions that take part. The checklist: an account with a Mass Save utility, our written proposal, your signature on the authorization form, a yes from the lender and an inspection once work wraps up. We draft the proposal and sit with you through the forms. The lender makes the approval decision.

They can. Mass Save runs an enhanced track for homes that meet its income limits, which scale with how many people live there, and the heat being replaced is usually oil, propane or electric resistance. Mention it early on the phone so the correct application gets started before design.

To earn the whole-home rebate, a house must first get the insulation and sealing its Home Energy Assessment recommends. The assessment lists the insulation and air sealing work, and that work is heavily subsidized by the program too. A partial-home system skips some of these rules but brings a smaller check.

Up to $8,500 for a whole-home air-source heat pump system, paid per ton of installed capacity. Conditions apply. Weatherization per a Home Energy Assessment, qualifying cold-climate equipment and someone living in the house all winter are the big three. Covering only part of the house earns less.

For the whole-home rebate, and for a HEAT Loan on a whole-home project, yes. The assessment costs the homeowner nothing and shows what weatherization the house needs. We help you book it and plan the heat pump around what it finds.

Very little. Rinse the indoor filters on a regular schedule, clear drifting sand, leaves and snow away from the outside cabinet, and book a yearly look at coils and drain lines. A short walkthrough at startup shows you where everything is.

The money comes after the job, figured on tons of capacity installed, once the program signs off on the paperwork. We prepare the rebate documents with you, gather the equipment details the program asks for and keep track until it clears. You review and sign; we do the legwork.

Air-source units built for cold weather that appear on the Mass Save qualified list. The outdoor and indoor units have to be a matched pair on that list. We check the exact models against it before the proposal goes out, so the equipment and the rebate line up.