Work it out before you call anyone
Everything below is free and nothing asks for your email. We would rather you understood the decision than took our word for it — including the parts where the honest answer is less flattering to us.
Calculators
Every one publishes the numbers it uses, so you can check the arithmetic rather than trust it. Each works without JavaScript too — the tables underneath are the real thing.
What size heat pump?
A capacity bracket from your floor area, the age of the building and the ceiling height — plus why rounding up is the expensive mistake.
What will it cost to run?
Heat pump against baseboards and against gas, at current BC Hydro and FortisBC rates. The rates are printed on the page.
How many zones?
How many indoor heads a ductless system needs and roughly what capacity each should be, before you read a quote.
What load does a walk-in need?
Box size, temperature, door traffic and what goes in it, turned into a capacity range you can check a quote against.
Guides
What the equipment does, what goes wrong with it, and how to tell a good quote from a bad one.
Heat pumps on the BC coast
How they work, why this climate suits them, what a cold snap really does, and the honest version of what they save.
Mini-splits & multi-zone
How ductless works, how many heads you need, where they go, and the minimum-output trap quotes rarely mention.
Walk-in coolers
What the parts do, what temperature the box should hold, and four things to check yourself before you call.
Walk-in freezers
Why a freezer is the harder machine, what defrost actually does, and what the location of the ice tells you.
Repair it, or replace it?
The four questions we work through on site, starting with the refrigerant on the nameplate — which is often the whole answer on its own.
What about rebates?
Which BC programmes exist, what decides your amount, and where to check it officially. No invented dollar figures — the province does not publish one, and neither will we.
Still not sure?
Call and describe the property and the problem. We will tell you what it takes — including when the answer is that you do not need us yet.