Heat Pump Installation in Tupelo, MS
A new system here will heat from November through March and cool from May through September every year. Tell us about the house, and a licensed contractor who covers Lee County will get in touch.
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Ten months a year, your heat pump is the only thing keeping the house right
Winter nights in Lee County average 34°F, and homes here need heat from November through March. Summers push back the other way, with afternoons averaging 90°F from May through September. That is ten months where a heat pump is doing real work, not just taking the edge off.
A new split-system heat pump has to meet federal minimums of 14.3 SEER2 for cooling and 7.5 HSPF2 for heating, but this area asks something more of it too. Better than half of homes here heat with electricity, so when a heat pump fails, there is often no backup keeping the house warm. And the power itself is not a given. Mississippi saw 30 percent of households lose power for at least 24 hours in 2024, and this area has logged 94 damaging wind events and 6 winter storms over the past ten years. A heat pump installed here should be sized and set up to handle both the daily load and the storms that knock the grid out.
- 5 months
- November through March, your system heats
- 5 months
- May through September, it cools
- 34°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 90°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
Mississippi requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
Mississippi tests contractors before it licenses them, and that license sits with the State Board of Contractors under the contractor's name, not tied to any one address or job. It covers this heat pump install the same way it covers whatever job this contractor takes on next.
For this job, the license is what stands behind the work itself. In most cities and counties in Mississippi, a heat pump installation also needs a permit from the local building office, with an inspection once the work is done. That inspection looks at this specific job, separate from the state board and the license.
Source: Mississippi State Board of Contractors
- Is a heat pump better than a furnace?
- It depends on what you need it to do. A furnace only heats. A heat pump heats and cools, so it replaces both your furnace and your air conditioner with one system. Here, homes need heat from November through March and cooling from May through September, so a heat pump is working most of the year instead of sitting idle half of it. Winter nights average 34°F, which a heat pump handles fine. Whether it makes sense for your house also depends on your current setup, so a contractor should look at what you have before you switch.
- What's the difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner?
- An air conditioner only cools. A heat pump cools the same way an air conditioner does, but it can also run in reverse to heat your home. Both move heat rather than create it, and both use a compressor and refrigerant to do it. The difference is the reversing valve inside a heat pump, which lets it pull heat from the outside air and bring it indoors during the months you need heat, November through March here.
- Does a heat pump work in cold weather?
- Yes. A heat pump pulls heat from the outside air even when that air feels cold, because there is still heat in air well below freezing. Winter nights here average 34°F, which a heat pump is built to handle without trouble. Heat pumps lose efficiency as the temperature drops further, which matters more in places with harder freezes than it does here.