Hey guys before we get to the video for more tips and tricks in the heating and air industry, please click that subscribe button. Thank you. Hey guys, josh with griffin air and the new hvac guide, wanted to do a video talking a little bit about dual fuel systems, because i think there's some information out there and different ways of explaining it. But i'm going to keep it really easy, because i think if you are looking at doing a heating and air system there's times when it does make sense to do a dual fuel system and there's other times when maybe it doesn't.

First of all, what is dual fuel if you're, watching this video and you're not quite sure, i'm gon na run through that really quick. Essentially, if we're talking about a system that is not dual fuel. So if we have a what we call a one heat, one cool system - meaning your heat - might be a furnace. Your outdoor unit is a straight ac and it's gon na be one or the other.

Okay. That would not be a dual fuel. That's a one heat one cool with a dual fuel system: alls we're gon na. Do it's not that complicated people try to make it sound like more than it is alls we're gon na do with the one-to-one system.

Is we're gon na eliminate that outdoor unit straight ac and we're going to put in a heat pump? That's it it's no more complicated than that, and all that means is on milder days when you need heat, that heat pump instead of burning gas is going to provide you heat and then, as it gets colder and colder. Most systems have a set point that it will then burn gas. Okay or if you turn your emergency switch on your thermostat, it will burn gas okay. So that's all a dual fuel system is i've.

Heard people try to make it more than it is it's as simple as that now, why does any of that matter? I would say in most cases most of our customers. If they have natural gas, they have a less expensive utility bill, they're, not usually as open to spending the money to getting a dual fuel system. Now. Does a dual fuel system cost more? Yes, the a heat pump typically is going to cost more than a straight ac outdoor unit, and you have to install some sort of system that can control that unit, meaning in the old days we had the dual fuel kits that you would install on the system And these days a lot of the smart thermostats, do it for you, so you just have an outdoor temperature sensor or it can do it through the internet.

I believe the sensor is more reliable. The thermostat will decide based on what you set it up for when how it will operate with that dual fuel system. So again, if you have natural gas a lot of our customers, they don't have. They don't even bother with dual fuel, the extra money they would spend, it doesn't make sense and natural gas is not that expensive.

However, we have seen fluctuating prices and, at times even extreme prices when it comes to propane and a lot of those customers look very closely at dual fuel. In fact, i can only think of one of our customers off the top of my head within the last year that decided to just do a one heat one cool deal. So, ultimately, i would say, if you have natural gas by rule typically may not make sense to go dual fuel and if you have propane by rule typically, it makes a whole lot of sense to go ahead and spend the extra money and go dual fuel. So i hope that helps if you're comparing systems and you're, not quite sure, if you have any questions, feel free to comment below.

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