♻️ Heat Pump Installation
Heat Pump Installation, Sized to Your Home and Your Rebate
A heat pump installation that holds up starts with a heat-loss calculation to the CSA F280 standard, not a rule of thumb. If you want an Ontario rebate, it also ends with a model on Natural Resources Canada’s qualified list. Then see which type fits your home, what moves the price, and how your current heating fuel sets your rebate.
25+ years of experience TSSA licensed & certified CSA F280 sizing on every quote
Serving Halton, Hamilton & Brantford
Choose Your System
Which Heat Pump Installation Fits Your Home?
A heat pump moves heat instead of burning fuel to make it: in winter it pulls heat from the outdoor air and brings it inside, and in summer it reverses to cool your home, so one system can do both jobs. Air-source systems exchange heat with the outdoor air. Ground-source (geothermal) systems use buried loops instead, which is a much larger excavation project.
For heat pumps installation, your existing ductwork and your current heating fuel decide most of the choice between types, and the fuel also decides your rebate. So match your home to the closest case below.
01
Gas Furnace and Central AC With Good Ducts
A ducted heat pump replaces the central AC, then shares your existing ducts. Because it uses ducts you already have, it is usually the simplest installation and the most common one for forced-air homes.
02
Keep the Furnace as Backup
For a gas-heated home, the heat pump can carry most of the heating season while your furnace takes over on the coldest days. The Ontario program allows a new or existing furnace as backup, so you do not have to remove it. However, the furnace itself is not what the rebate covers.
03
No Ducts, or Ducts Added Later
Baseboard heat, additions, finished basements and some older homes in Dundas, Oakville and Ancaster have no ductwork to share. Instead, a ductless mini-split heats those spaces directly, room by room.
04
Heating With Oil, Propane, Electricity or Wood
Homes without a natural gas line, common around Caistor Centre and West Lincoln, also fall into the higher rebate tier below. For oil-heated homes, the program requires you to size the heat pump and any electric backup so they fully offset the oil heating load.
05
You Already Have a Heat Pump
The Ontario rebate is for first-time heat pump installations, so replacing an existing system is not eligible. Our heat pump replacement page covers repair versus replace, so start there.
06
Building New
New-build homes do not qualify for the rebate. A heat pump is still worth specifying early, because ducts, electrical capacity and the outdoor unit location are cheapest to plan before the walls close.
Not sure which one is your home? Call (905) 689-3777 and we will walk through your ducts and heating fuel with you.
Rebates
How Your Heating Fuel Sets Your Heat Pump Installation Rebate
Ontario’s Home Renovation Savings program, delivered by Enbridge Gas and Save on Energy with Ontario government support, pays by the ton of rated heating capacity, but the rate depends on what heats your home today.
Natural gas (Enbridge Gas customer): cold-climate air-source heat pump
$500 per ton, up to $2,000
Natural gas (Enbridge Gas customer): ground-source heat pump
$3,000 flat
Electricity, oil, propane or wood (Ontario grid): cold-climate air-source heat pump