Carrier Heat Pumps Prices and Installation Cost

Carrier Comfort Series Heat Pumps

Innovation, efficiency, quality: Carrier Comfort™ Series heat pumps represent years of research and design with one goal in mind – making your family comfortable. With standard models and units designed specifically for the rigors of coastal area installations, Comfort Series heat pumps represent the Carrier quality, environmental stewardship and lasting durability that have endured for more than a century.

Carrier Performance Series Heat Pumps

If you could look under the hood of a Carrier Performance Series heat pump, you’d see what drives the performance: a serious commitment to quality. Our two-stage models include innovative extras like our welded aluminum coil technology and a two-speed compressor that together provide benefits like enhanced corrosion resistance, higher efficiency and even, consistent comfort.

Carrier Infinity Series Heat Pumps

Carrier Infinity System heat pumps represent years of design, development and testing with one goal in mind – maximizing your family’s comfort. Along the way, Carrier have taken the lead in creating new technologies that deliver the outstanding quality and energy efficiency you demand while staying ahead of industry trends and global initiatives.

We install Carrier Heat Pumps but also BOSCH and many more brand.

*Price include full Installation for smallest available size unit including all available discounts. A heating/cooling load calculation is necessary to determine the correct size of heat pump to install in the home.

Carrier Heat Pumps Prices and Installation Cost In Chicago, IL and Surrounding Areas

Installation costs vary based on factors like home size, existing HVAC infrastructure, and geographic location. Carrier systems offer long-term energy savings, making them a solid investment for home comfort. Here’s a breakdown of costs:

Carrier Heat Pump Unit Prices:

• Carrier Comfort Series: $4,500 – $6,500 (basic efficiency, affordable)
• Carrier Performance Series: $6,000 – $8,000 (mid-range, better efficiency)
• Carrier Infinity Series: $8,500 – $12,000 (high-efficiency, premium features)

The final price fluctuates based on a number of factors. Installed costs might range from anywhere between $7,900 to $18,100 or more. That’s quite a range! The good news is there are a number of ways to make heat pump installation costs more manageable. These include promotional rebates available during select times of year as well as utility company rebates, financing options, lease-to-own options and/or tax credits.

What is a Heat Pump?

Heat pump is part of a home heating and cooling system and is installed outside your home. Like an air conditioner such as central air, it can cool your home, but it’s also capable of providing heat. In cooler months, a heat pump pulls heat from the cold outdoor air and transfers it indoors, and in warmer months, it pulls heat out of indoor air to cool your home. They are powered by electricity and transfer heat using refrigerant to provide comfort all year round. Because they handle both cooling and heating, homeowners may not need to install separate systems to heat their homes. In colder climates, an electric heat strip can be added to the indoor fan coil for additional capabilities. Heat pumps do not burn fossil fuel like furnaces do, making them more environmentally friendly.

How Dose a Heat Pump Cool And Heat?

Heat pumps do not create heat. They redistribute heat from the air or ground and use a refrigerant that circulates between the indoor fan coil (air handler) unit and the outdoor compressor to transfer the heat.

Cooling Mode

One of the most important things to understand about heat pump operation and the process of transferring heat is that heat energy naturally wants to move to areas with lower temperatures and less pressure. Heat pumps rely on this physical property, putting heat in contact with cooler, lower pressure environments so that the heat can naturally transfer. This is how a heat pump works.

How a heat pump works:

• Step 1 – Liquid refrigerant is pumped through an expansion device at the indoor coil, which is functioning as the evaporator. Air from inside the house is blown across the coils, where heat energy is absorbed by the refrigerant. The resulting cool air is blown throughout the home’s ducts. The process of absorbing the heat energy has caused the liquid refrigerant to heat up and evaporate into gas form.
• Step 2 – The gaseous refrigerant now passes through a compressor, which pressurizes the gas. The process of pressurizing the gas causes it to heat up (a physical property of compressed gases). The hot, pressurized refrigerant moves through the system to the coil in the outdoor unit.
• Step 3 – A fan in the outdoor unit moves outside air across the coils, which are serving as condenser coils in cooling mode. Because the air outside the home is cooler than the hot compressed gas refrigerant in the coil, heat is transferred from the refrigerant to the outside air. During this process, the refrigerant condenses back to a liquid state as it cools. The warm liquid refrigerant is pumped through the system to the expansion valve at the indoor units.
• Step 4 – The expansion valve reduces the pressure of the warm liquid refrigerant, which cools it significantly. At this point, the refrigerant is in a cool, liquid state and ready to be pumped back to the evaporator coil in the indoor unit to begin the cycle again.

Heating Mode

A Heat pump in heating mode operates just like cooling mode, except that the flow of refrigerant is reversed by the aptly named reversing valve. The flow reversal means that the heating source becomes the outside air (even when outdoor temperatures are low) and the heat energy is released inside the home. The outside coil now has the function of an evaporator, and the indoor coil now has the role of the condenser.

The physics of the process are the same. Heat energy is absorbed in the outdoor unit by cool liquid refrigerant, turning it into cold gas. Pressure is then applied to the cold gas, turning it to hot gas. The hot gas is cooled in the indoor unit by passing air, heating the air and condensing the the gas to warm liquid. The warm liquid is relieved of pressure as it enters the outdoor unit, turning it to cool liquid and renewing the cycle.

Difference Between Heat Pump and Air Conditioner Energy Efficiency

While essentially identical in cooling mode, heating mode is a completely different story. Air conditioners do not provide heating, but heat pumps do. Thanks to a reversing valve in the outdoor unit, a heat pump system works by extracting heat energy from outside air, even in extremely cold temperatures, transferring the heat inside the home, where it releases the heat into the air. A heat pump can heat and cool, but an air conditioner cannot, which is the primary difference between the two HVAC systems. An air conditioner is typically paired with a furnace to provide heat during the cold months. Together, an air conditioner and furnace are a complete heating and cooling system.

Although a heat pump can heat a home, when outside temperatures drop below freezing, the efficiency of a heat pump is affected as the unit requires more energy to maintain warm temperatures inside the home. Typical heat pump systems have an auxiliary electric heater added to the indoor air unit to add supplemental heat when outdoor temperatures drop. However because electric auxiliary heating Is not very efficient, the addition of a furnace can be a solution to this problem, creating a system that relies on the heat pump as the primary heat source but automatically switches to the furnace when appropriate. This Hybrid Heat® technology is both efficient and intelligent.

Free, No-Obligation In-Home Estimate

Whether replacing an existing HVAC system for your home, or purchasing one for the first time, there are several important differences to consider when choosing between a heat pump and an air conditioner. Besides choosing the best system for your situation, the size of the unit and its heating/cooling capacity will need to be determined. A proper evaluation of your home’s heating and cooling needs by a trained HVAC professional is the best way to determine the ideal option for you. GSHA Services, LTD your local Carrier HVAC experts are available to help evaluate your situation and help you decide between a heat pump vs AC system. Schedule installation or request a free quote – fill form or call us at (224) 258-0510.