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Dana, on your advice, I started exploring Heat Pump options with a few different companies. I couldn't get a single engineer to do an independent heatload calc for me, but most of the companies that came sort of did one. One contractor said a heat pump won't work in CT, obviously not going...

That's definitely my plan Dana. I'm assuming the Manual J and D I get will tell me, more or less, what equipment I need and what kind of ductwork design I'm looking at for either type of system. Then it's just a matter of pricing out the difference between all the options. Before I read what...

Thank you again Dana, you've given me a lot to think about and a starting point- I'm going to either find someone to run a Manual J/D or do it over the web if I have to. I'm also going to insulate my basement interior foundation walls. I'm still not sure I'm sold on mini-split, but I will be...

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. I have a very dark colored house and those lineset covers would be 2x as noticeable as in that picture. I'd love to get rid of the oil burner, but what would heat my home? I don't know that I can trust a heat pump to heat to even the rare -5 to -15 we have...

There were some replies here that went missing before I could read them. Any idea what happened?

Dana, you've given me a lot to think about, thank you very much for the detailed response. I don't know that I can use oil usage on my boiler to determine load since my boiler wasn't sufficiently heating a few parts of my house when the weather dropped to freezing (HVAC tech didn't seem...

I recently purchased a new house, and I'm going step by step upgrading what I can afford at the time. My heating is hydronic baseboard powered by a 30 year old peerless boiler burning oil. I have no air conditioning at the moment, nor ductwork. My boiler is insufficient and I've already had...

I'm in a new house (1989 built) and looking to add a water softener, whole house filter, and whole house UV, with an under sink RO for my drinking water (it's had issues with coliform and I have young kids). I had a lab run a water test, these are the results. https://postimg.cc/bs33vBg9...