serving London, ON since 1955
A heat pump heats your home in the winter and cools it in the summer, all from one system. Salmon Plumbing & Heating has served London, Ontario since 1955. We install, repair and service heat pumps, and we'll give you honest advice on whether one makes sense for your home.
A heat pump works like an air conditioner that can also run in reverse. It doesn't burn fuel to make heat. It moves heat from one place to another.
In the summer, it takes heat out of your home and moves it outside, just like a central air conditioner. In the winter, it pulls heat from the outside air, even when it's cold out, and moves it inside. Because it moves heat instead of creating it, a heat pump uses far less electricity than electric baseboard heaters.
We sell Daikin heat pumps, and many of the systems we install are cold weather models.
Hybrid heating. We recommend pairing a Daikin heat pump with a Daikin furnace. The heat pump looks after your home in milder weather, and the furnace takes over when it gets really cold. Find out more about hybrid heating and matching your furnace with your heat pump.
Cold climate heat pumps. These are built to keep heating when the temperature drops, which matters in a London winter.
Daikin ductless splits. A ductless split has no ducts. A wall-mounted indoor unit connects to an outdoor unit. You can get them as cooling only, or with both heating and cooling. They're a good fit for homes that have a boiler or no ductwork. Learn more about ductless splits.
Shops and garages. We can also provide units for spaces with no primary heat source, like a shop or garage.
A heat pump is often a good fit if:
If you have a boiler or no ductwork, a ductless split can add cooling, or both heating and cooling. Every home is different, so we'll look at yours and give you a straight answer. Salmon will provide a free assessment of your home comfort needs.
A heat pump only works well if it's the right size and set up properly for your home. We'll check your home, your ductwork and your current equipment before recommending a system. We sell and install Daikin heat pumps and Daikin furnaces, and our own sheet metal shop means we can build ductwork connections to fit your home.
Ask us about the 12 year warranty when you get your quote.
It doesn't matter who installed your heat pump or ductless split, we're happy to work on it. We service, maintain and repair all brands, including Daikin, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Samsung and Sanyo.
Heat pumps work all year, so regular service keeps them running properly. We recommend having a licensed technician look at yours once a year. If it stops working, call (519) 451-8910.
Host: Okay. Now you also mentioned that George might be a candidate for a heat pump. What is a heat pump going to help with?
Bill Salmon: Well, a heat pump is really like an air conditioner. Let me see if I can say this. An air conditioner is really a heat pump, but we just don't call them that. An air conditioner pumps heat from the indoors to the outdoors. In fact, I remember years ago, I took a basic refrigeration or appliance repair refrigeration or something course at Fanshawe, and I can still remember the opening day. This is the guy described: "Well, we don't cool anything in a refrigerator. We remove heat." And I thought, "Oh, my goodness. They're being picky, right?" But you have to understand that.
You have to get your head around that to understand that's actually what happens. We remove heat, let's say in your refrigerator, you remove heat in the inside of your refrigerator and pump it out the back of your refrigerator. Well, that's what an air conditioner does. It removes heat from inside your house and pumps it outside. That's why when you stand over the outside unit, it's warm. So a heat pump is doing the exact opposite.
It does both. It does that, then it has a reversing valve which reverses the operation, and now we absorb the heat from outside and push it inside.
So a heat pump, now they're very efficient, and although electricity costs more than gas and maybe more than oil because for a dollar worth of energy, you can get two, three, depending on how cold out it is, dollars' worth of heat. That's where it makes sense.
To serve our customers better, we restrict our service area to the City of London and the immediate surrounding towns. That way, one of our red trucks is never far from your home when we dispatch.
We know every part of the city. We’ll probably have a pretty good idea of what to expect, before we arrive at your home.
Yes. Cold climate heat pumps are built for Canadian winters. We recommend pairing yours with a Daikin furnace, which takes over on the coldest days.
We recommend a heat pump paired with a Daikin furnace. That’s called hybrid heating, and it gives you efficient heat in mild weather and a furnace for the coldest days.
A ductless split is a system with no ducts. You can get one as a heat pump that heats and cools, or as cooling only. A ducted heat pump connects to your home’s ductwork and furnace.
Yes. In a home with a furnace and ducts, a heat pump can go in place of your central air conditioner. It cools your home in the summer and helps heat it the rest of the year.
Yes. We can provide units for spaces with no primary heat source, like a shop or garage.
Yes. We repair all brands, no matter who installed it.
The City of London and the immediate surrounding towns, including Arva, Belmont, Dorchester, Komoka and Lambeth.
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