Sized for the Coldest Night, Chosen for the Rest of Winter
A heat pump makes less heat as the air gets colder, so the only number worth putting on a quote is the one it still has to hold. Here that is minus 19, the coldest night the Building Code plans for. A cold climate machine sized against it keeps making heat well below freezing.
Now the part nobody mentions. Minus 19 is the bottom of the range, not the winter. Most of the season here sits far above it, and that long mild stretch is where a heat pump costs less to run than the furnace. That is where your saving lives. So we size for the cold night and choose the equipment for the mild months behind it.
You will not get a permit surprise on install day either. Guelph names a new heating system, and a change of fuel, as work that needs a building permit, and a heat pump beside a gas furnace sits close to both. We put your job to permit services before your quote goes out.
The Money You Keep on a Guelph Heat Pump
Homeowners here have something most of Ontario does not: municipal money on top of the provincial rebate. We fill in both applications, and we start them before anyone orders equipment, because neither program pays for a job that has already begun.
The provincial rebate works on a gas-heated house here
The Home Renovation Savings Program opens to any gas-heated house on an active Enbridge residential account, and this city has bought its gas from Enbridge since about 1955. So the money is open to you. We file it and wait for the written approval before we order anything.
The city puts its own money on top
Guelph Greener Homes lends up to $50,000 at 0% interest over 10 years, collected on your property tax bill. A separate grant pays up to $15,000 toward an air source heat pump where the home is assessed at $350,000 or less. Loans are waitlisted and grants are open, and we will tell you which one your address can use.
Everything a Guelph Heat Pump Quote Covers
Eight lines, and the same eight on every heat pump we price here.
- We measure your rooms, work out what the house asks for, and check the machine still holds it at minus 19.
- We check both rebates against your address, your gas account and your assessment, and say which money you get.
- We file the provincial application and wait for the written approval, because a job that starts early gets nothing.
- We organise the city's application and its energy audit with you where the Greener Homes grant applies.
- We ask permit services where your job lands, and file when the answer is yes.
- We read your electrical service early, because a panel upgrade brings in the utility and adds weeks.
- We set a level pad for the outdoor unit, seal the refrigerant lines and make the wall good.
- We fit the control that hands the house between heat pump and furnace, and set that handover point on the day.
Say so on the first call if there is already a heat pump on the wall. The provincial program pays nothing toward replacing one, and neither pays for a job that has started.
Three Shapes This Takes in a Guelph House
Dual fuel, keeping the furnace you have
The furnace keeps its place for the coldest nights and the heat pump takes everything else. Most homes here land on this, because the gas is already at the meter.
All-electric cold climate, ducted
No gas at all. The heat pump runs the house through the winter with electric backup behind it, and a home already heated by electricity earns the bigger provincial rate.
Ductless heads, room by room
A small unit on the wall of each room that needs one, and no ducts anywhere. It is the only way a century house near Downtown Guelph gets a heat pump.
All three are the air source kind, and here that is deliberate. The city protects the ground its drinking water comes from and will not support drilling a ground loop near its wells, so air source is the answer on these streets. The heat pump installation page runs through the cold climate range we fit, and ductless mini split installation is where a house with no ducts starts.
What Actually Sets the Price
The panel, the placement and the ductwork weigh as much as the equipment, so we price after the site visit and never over the phone. Our financing options page sets out the ways to spread what is left.
| The setup | What goes in | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|
| Dual fuel, keeping the gas furnace | A cold climate outdoor unit, a matched coil, and one control deciding which runs. | The size the house needs at minus 19, the equipment tier, and whether the panel has a circuit free. |
| All-electric, through the ducts | The heat pump carries the season alone, with electric backup behind it. | The size of that backup, what the utility says about your service, and what the ducts can already move. |
| Ductless heads | One outdoor unit, a head on the wall of every room that needs one, and a cored hole per run. | How many heads you want, and how far each one sits from the outdoor unit. |
The rebates do not lower our price, they lower what you pay. Both have to come back approved before we order, so we start them the day you say yes.
The Company Behind the Install
Two rebate applications, one electrical service, and a machine that has to hold at minus 19. That is a lot riding on one quote, so it matters whose name is on it.
Over 10 years of this
A decade of these installs across the region, and the owner, Sina, is usually the technician on your driveway. Sizing and commissioning come out of one head.
Authorized Lennox Dealer
Factory training and real parts behind the cold climate equipment we fit.
Five HomeStars Best of Award wins
Homeowners vote for that award, and we have taken it five times.
The panel read before the price
Alectra Utilities runs the power here, and a service upgrade to 200 amps takes about four weeks to design. We read your panel on the quote visit, so it never lands on you late.
I needed a gas line extended to the back of my house for a BBQ connection. Sina was responsive, came quickly to review the request and provide options. Their price was very competitive and the work was done carefully and efficiently on the promised date.
Niels HenriksenHomeStars review
Four Steps, and the Money Sorted First
We have both approvals in hand before anyone orders a box.
Tell us what heats the house now
Ring us or send the form with your fuel, your gas account, and what you want the heat pump to take over.
We size the system and read the panel
Your technician measures the rooms, reads the electrical service, picks the spot for the outdoor unit, and works out what you qualify for.
The price arrives on paper, and we chase the money
The quote names the equipment, what it makes at minus 19, the controls, any electrical work, and each rebate on its own line. Then we file.
We fit it, then we run it both ways
Pad set, refrigerant lines run, electrical connected. Then we heat the house, cool the house, set the handover point with you and put the warranty in your name.
The parts of Guelph we cover
A 1920s house near Exhibition Park and a new build in Westminster Woods ask different questions of the same heat pump, and the panel is usually the reason. Give us the neighbourhood when you ring and we will book the visit.
- Downtown Guelph
- Brant Avenue
- Exhibition Park
- Old University
- Saint George's Park
- Onward Willow
- The Junction
- Grange Hill East
- Hanlon Creek
- Kortright Hills
- Parkwood Gardens
- Waverley
- Two Rivers
- West Willow Village
- Westminster Woods
- Clairfields
- Rickson Ridge
- Sunny Acres
- June Avenue
- North Riverside
Also in Guelph: air conditioner installation and gas furnace installation, plus every service on our Guelph HVAC page.
