Heat Pump Installation in Monroe, LA
A new system here will heat from November through March and cool from May through October every year. Tell us about the house, and a licensed contractor who covers Ouachita Parish will get in touch.
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Eleven months of work for one machine in Monroe
A heat pump in Monroe works most of the year. Homes here need cooling from May through October, six months straight, with summer afternoons averaging 92°F. Then it switches over for heat from November through March, when winter nights average 37°F. Eleven months out of the year, the system is doing one job or the other.
A split-system heat pump built on or after January 1, 2023 has to meet federal minimums of 14.3 SEER2 for cooling and 7.5 HSPF2 for heating. With six months of cooling against five of heat, the cooling side carries the heavier load here. Storms are part of the picture too. Ouachita Parish has seen 86 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and in 2024 close to half of Louisiana households lost power for at least a day.
- 5 months
- November through March, your system heats
- 6 months
- May through October, it cools
- 37°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 92°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
Louisiana requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
The Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors tests contractors before it licenses them, then keeps a record of who holds one. That license belongs to the contractor, not to any single job, so the same license that covers this installation covers the next one they do.
For a heat pump install, the license is what stands behind the person doing the work, but the job itself still passes through the local building office. In most cities and parishes here, putting in a new heat pump needs a permit and an inspection once the work is done, and that inspection is what checks the wiring and refrigerant lines were done right.
Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors
- Is a heat pump better than a furnace?
- A heat pump does what a furnace does and cools the house too, so it replaces both a furnace and an air conditioner with one system. Winters here average 37°F at night, mild enough that a heat pump can carry the heating load without much trouble. A furnace only heats, so in a place that needs cooling from May through October, running two separate systems usually makes less sense than one that does both.
- What's the difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner?
- An air conditioner only moves heat out of the house. A heat pump can run that same cycle in reverse, pulling heat from the outside air and moving it inside, so it heats in winter and cools in summer. The parts that do the cooling work, the compressor and the coils, are built the same way in both machines.
- Does a heat pump work in cold weather?
- Yes. A heat pump pulls heat from outside air even when that air feels cold, and it keeps working down well below freezing. Winter nights here only average 37°F, which is well within the range a heat pump is built to handle. As the outside temperature drops further, a heat pump has to work harder to pull the same amount of heat, but that's not a concern with winters this mild.