After living through a weekend of insanely low temperatures and seeing how much a heat pump doesn't work well in those situations we're looking into something we can use to supplement our electric heat. Seriously, heat pumps don't work well when it doesn't get above freezing for highs and lows are in the lower teens. I don't care if our neighbors or local government don't approve. We don't need their approval anyway. 

When it gets this cold it is life threatening and people need to be able to use what they can afford or, as in our case, supplement a system that wasn't built for these temperatures. Tonight it will get down to 18. Tomorrow night is our last night below freezing for about a week. It really does suck to hear the thing run all night but it's not really heating your house much.

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