Our New Heat Pump

UPDATE: 5:00 p.m.

The heat pump is so loud it sounds like somebody is in the shower. What's more, the air coming out of the vents is cold and the thermostat says that the emergency heat strip is on. The indoor temp continues to drop. I have turned the whole mess off. It's probably using the emergency heat strip to warm the great outdoors.

ORIGINAL POST:

I am trying to right a book and I guess I should move. We're having a new heat pump installed and the closet where it lives is in the room next to where I'm attempting to work. There are three service people here and I'm not sure they've ever done this before.

These folks are not inspiring confidence. They just set off our smoke alarm using a torch to.... burn up our new heat pump. I don't know. The alarm is loud and I'm ignoring it.

Here's what I've overheard in the last few minutes:

"It's the inside of the cabinet that's caught on fire."

"I've never seen one of these things before. Where does it go?"

"Don't use the torch too close there. You're melting the Teflon."

"It's got three of these and one of those. That don't match what I need to connect."

Now they just told me that I must have a very sensitive smoke alarm because they didn't really burn up very much. Just some insulation. I mentioned that perhaps the insulation was a good thing for the heat pump to have, and they assured me that it was just "glazed over."

That makes two of us.

I want heat. Not fire.

Comments

[groovyoldlady]

In order to right a book, first one has to wrong it. Right?

Sounds like your heat pump guys need to have their filters checked.

[Anwyn]

Aieeeeee.