Not only do household heat pumps offer an energy-efficient solution to your home's heating demands, but they also increase your home’s value. Domestic central heating pumps last for a long time, and as such, they provide a reliable long-term heating solution for whoever's owns the home.
Heat pumps need minimal servicing and repairs, and as such, owners are guaranteed long-term, reliable service. They are also a great way of helping keep the world greener since they provide an alternate heating source, which (in some countries) homeowners get paid for. All these factors put together significantly improve your home's value to a great extent.

Residential heat pumps work in the same way regular heat pumps do. They transfer heat from the soil, water, or ambient air to other locations like your home's hot water system.

Heat pump residential systems use some electricity; however, the entire process achieves a 200% to 600% efficiency since the amount of heat produced is significantly higher than consumed.

Heat collected from outside your home is transferred to a coolant where it's compressed, resulting in a significant increase in temperature. The coolant is transferred to the indoor unit where the air is allowed to pass over it increasing its temperature, warming the residential units.

Heat pumps operate by using a process known as heat transfer to drag heat from the outside into your household or office. 

They operate like a reverse fan during the winter or cold climatic seasons; they transfer heat instead of generating heat. Once the refrigerant loses pressure, it becomes a vapor, meaning it gets colder compared to the outside temperature. According to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: heat flows from hot to cold. Therefore, the refrigerant draws in heat from the ambient air outside. Once it absorbs all the heat required, the outside compressor pressurizes the gas to form a hot liquid. After which, the hot refrigerant liquid travels to the indoor coils, whereby the coils and blowers allow the heat to be released into your duct system. When it's cold outside, you might think there is no heat to absorb, especially during winter. Fortunately, heat still exists to be harvested, even in shallow temperatures of about -15° C/5° F.