Heat Pump Repair in Hammond, LA
Homes here need heat from November through March and cooling from April through October. If your system quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Tangipahoa Parish will get in touch.
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Your heat pump runs almost every month in Hammond
There's no real off season here. Homes need heat from November through March, when nights average 42°F. Then the same system switches to cooling from April through October. That's twelve months of work for one heat pump, back and forth between modes with little rest.
All that switching puts wear on the reversing valve, the part that flips the system between heat and cooling. When it sticks, the unit blows cold air when you asked for heat, or it won't switch over at all. Hammond has also logged 48 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and wind like that gets into the outdoor unit, bending the cabinet or knocking a connection loose. And if the power goes out, which it did for close to half of Louisiana households at some point last year, a heat pump does not start back up on its own. Someone has to switch it back on.
- 5 months
- November through March, your system heats
- 7 months
- April through October, it cools
- 42°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 91°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 issues that license, and it is tied to the contractor, not to any single job. It covers the business as a whole, whether the work is a full system swap or a single afternoon repair.
For a heat pump repair, the license is what stands behind the work, but the refrigerant side of the job carries its own requirement on top of that. Heat pumps move refrigerant to heat and cool, and any technician who opens that side of the system, here or anywhere in the country, has to hold EPA Section 608 certification. The contractor is accountable to the state for the job as a whole, and whoever handles the refrigerant is accountable to the EPA for that part of it.
Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors
- Why is my heat pump blowing cold air?
- In heating mode, air from the vents will feel cooler than your skin even when the system is working right, since it never comes out as hot as a furnace would run it. If the air feels truly cold, not just cool, check that the thermostat is set to heat and not to fan only. A frozen outdoor coil, a low refrigerant charge, or a reversing valve stuck in the wrong position will also leave you with cold air, and those need a contractor to sort out.
- Why is there ice on my heat pump?
- Some frost on the outdoor unit during a heating cycle is normal, and the system should clear it on its own with a defrost cycle every so often. Ice that stays or keeps building back up points to a real problem, often a dirty filter or a blocked outdoor coil cutting off airflow, a fan motor that has stopped turning, or low refrigerant. Left alone, that ice stops the coil from doing its job and can damage the compressor, so have it checked before running the system any further.
- Why is my heat pump running but not cooling?
- This usually means the outdoor unit is running but not moving heat out of the house, which points to a refrigerant leak, a failing compressor, or a reversing valve stuck in the wrong position. It can also mean the outdoor coil is caked with dirt and cannot release heat the way it needs to. Only a licensed contractor with EPA 608 certification can open the refrigerant side to check the charge, since federal law requires that certification for anyone working on that part of the system.