Kemptville and the wider North Grenville area produce the strongest economic case for a heat pump of anywhere we work, and the reason is fuel.
Plenty of homes around Kemptville sit outside the natural gas network and heat with oil or propane instead. Both are considerably more expensive per unit of heat than gas, and oil prices move in ways that are difficult to plan around. Replacing oil heat with a cold-climate heat pump is the one case where we can say without hedging that the running costs drop, and by a wide margin.
Ontario's Home Renovation Savings Program pays up to $7,500 toward a qualifying cold-climate heat pump, with no energy audit required, and homes coming off oil sit at the top of the scale. Fern is a participating installer, so the paperwork is something we handle rather than something you chase.
Larger homes, longer runs, outbuildings, and well and septic systems that the electrical service is already carrying. If there is an existing oil furnace with ductwork, a central cold-climate system usually drops straight in. If the house is on baseboards or a wood stove, a multi-zone ductless layout is generally the better design. Either way the load calculation has to account for what else is on the panel.
We serve Kemptville, Oxford Mills, Burritts Rapids and the surrounding North Grenville area, along with Merrickville, Richmond and Manotick to the north.
Sizing decides everything else, including whether your electrical service can carry the system. Our heat pump design tool runs a load calculation for your address, and the panel sizing tool will tell you where your service stands.
Worth reading first: what the Ontario rebate is worth, what a heat pump costs, and whether one is worth it.