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About This Site
Heat Pump Weather is a reference site about air-source heat pumps in Kentucky and the Ohio Valley, written for homeowners and built from dated public sources; it does not install, repair or sell equipment.
What this site is
Heat Pump Weather explains how air-source heat pumps behave in Ohio Valley weather, from Kentucky out to the river counties of Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia and down to the Tennessee line: winters that hover in the 20s and 30s with a few single-digit snaps, and muggy summers. It is laid out like a magazine: sixteen long features, grouped on the contents page by season, from winter defrost and backup heat to summer humidity and sizing, spring and fall planning, and the year-round basics of costs, rebates and climate. Each feature opens with the short answer, then takes the time to explain it.
It is written for homeowners who want to understand what their system is doing, what is normal, and what to ask a contractor.
What it is not
Heat Pump Weather is not an HVAC contractor. It does no installations, repairs or service calls, sells no equipment, and takes no bookings. Where a job needs a licensed professional, such as refrigerant, wiring, gas lines or ice that will not clear, the pages say so plainly.
The site has the same owners as four businesses: PlumbingSupplyAndMore.com, a plumbing and HVAC supply house; Central Plumbing HVAC, a heating and cooling company in Pennsylvania; and two water-treatment sellers, SoftPro Water Systems and Quality Water Treatment. A few pages link to them, always with a note. The same-owner links page lists every one.
How pages are put together
Each feature starts from primary sources: NOAA and the National Weather Service for weather, the U.S. Department of Energy and its national laboratories, ENERGY STAR, EPA, CPSC, AHRI and ACCA for equipment and safety, the IRS and EIA for money, and the utilities' own program pages for rebates. Numbers are copied from those documents, and each feature closes with a short note naming what it was based on, when the sources were read, and what was left out.
Rebate amounts, prices and program status change often, so money pages give the date each figure was read. No page reports tests, reviews or customer stories, because none were done.
Corrections
When an error turns up, the page is corrected and its updated date changes. Figures that go stale, such as a closed rebate or a new price report, are replaced with the current primary source rather than kept for history. If a source can no longer be read, the page says so instead of guessing.