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Heat pump installation in Toronto
Cold-climate air-source heat pump installation for Toronto homes. Modern units keep working well below freezing, so a heat pump can cover most or all of a Toronto winter — with a furnace as backup if it makes sense for your home, or fully electric if that’s the goal.
The reasons that come up most.
Heat pump interest in Toronto usually starts from one of a few places — an aging furnace and AC due for replacement at the same time, a desire to cut household gas use, or a home addition that wants its own zone of heat and cool.
- Aging furnace + AC due for replacement together
- Cutting gas use without losing winter comfort
- Adding cooling to a heat-only home
- Single-zone ductless for a problem room or attic
- Multi-zone retrofit on a home with no ductwork
- Backup-heat planning for cold snaps
Sized for your house, not a brochure.
A heat pump that’s sized off a square-footage chart usually disappoints in a Toronto winter. We do a real load review against your home’s envelope, decide on dual-fuel vs all-electric with you, and commission the install with measured numbers.
Book a heat-pump consult- Heat-load review against the actual envelope
- Cold-climate ASHP selection sized to the load
- Dual-fuel pairing with existing furnace, or full electric
- Outdoor unit siting, pad, and disconnect
- Line-set, electrical, and control integration
- Commissioning with measured airflow and charge
Dual-fuel vs all-electric
Two valid Toronto strategies.
There’s no single right answer, and we’ll be honest about which one fits your home, your bills, and your timeline.
Heat pump + existing furnace as backup.
Heat pump runs the bulk of the year. Furnace handles the coldest hours and gives you redundancy. Often the lowest-risk retrofit.
Full retrofit, no gas appliance.
Cold-climate unit sized for the design temperature, with electric backup. Requires careful sizing and an honest envelope conversation.
Single- or multi-zone for hard-to-reach rooms.
Where ducts don’t reach or only certain spaces matter — a ductless head per zone, sized individually.
Doing the AC anyway?
If you’re already pricing an AC install, a heat pump is often only modestly more — and replaces both jobs at once.
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Diagnostics and repair for Toronto furnaces — ignition, sensors, blower motors, and intermittent no-heat calls.
AC repair — Toronto
Cooling diagnostics and repair across Toronto — refrigerant leaks, capacitor faults, frozen coils, and warm-air-coming-out-the-vent calls.
AC installation — Toronto
Right-sized central AC and ductless mini-split installs for Toronto homes — sized to the load, not the brochure.
Hot water tank replacement — Toronto
Same-day swap availability for failing tanks across Toronto — gas, electric, and tankless conversions.
Emergency HVAC — Toronto
Nights, weekends and holidays — no-heat, no-AC, water-heater leaks. After-hours dispatch from the on-call rotation.
HVAC maintenance — Toronto
Fall and spring tune-ups for Toronto homes — combustion checks, coil cleans, and the small fixes that prevent the bad calls.
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Curious whether a heat pump fits your home?
Send a few details — age of the existing system, square footage, anything you know about insulation. We’ll come back with a plain-language load review and a couple of real options.
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