Heat pumps are a remarkable, low energy way of providing heating or cooling for your home or office. Heat pumps are a particularly efficient and cost effective way of heating an environment, as they get their thermal energy from the surrounding air, rather than from burning fossil fuels or using electricity.

Heat pumps are found in refrigerators, air conditioners or as part of air conditioning systems, but can also be used to provide heat for domestic or commercial premises. This heat can then be circulated as either warm air or as warm water in a radiator system.

What is a heat pump?

Strictly speaking, heat pumps do not pump heat as such, since thermodynamics prevent heat from flowing from cooler places to warmer places. What a heat pump actually moves is thermal energy. This thermal energy is extracted from a source (such as the air or ground) and transferred to the destination via a series of evaporating and condensing coils. It’s the same process by which your freezer transfers thermal energy outwards, even though it is much colder inside than out.

P&M Coppack stock a wide range of heat pumps from leading manufacturers, including Airwell, Aquarea, Daikin, DeLonghi, Estia, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Therma V,

Panasonic and Toshiba. These include air to air heat pumps and air to water heat pumps, as well as heat pumps that draw heat from below the ground.

Our expert technical team will be happy to advise you on the very best system to suit your circumstances, and your budget, providing a full range of services from design and specification through to installation and maintenance. So why waste money, and harm the environment, by burning gas or using electricity, when a heat pump could draw all the energy you need from the air around you.