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My father replaced oil burning with an air-water heat pump. That is, the heat pump heats water that circulates in the same pipes and radiators that were used previously. Apart from installing the heat pump in the boiler room, no other changes in the house were necessary.


Does that cool through the radiators as well as heat? It seems like it could but I've never heard of heat pumps being used like that.


No, heating only. I'd imagine trying to use them for cooling in the summer would easily lead to condensation and attendant moisture damage.




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