Electrify My Home

It’s been about 6 weeks since we’ve had our heat pump installed. The comfort and quality of the system exceeded our expectations. Room-to-room temperature variations, which were significant with our old gas furnace, are gone. Chalk that up to a properly sized unit and smart alterations of existing ductwork. The two units, inside and out, are very quiet. The Fujitsu thermostat enables us to set up a weekly schedule with two different temp set points: day and evening time, and sleep time.

I’m allergic to pollen and my histamines go nuts in May/June but I’ve had no allergic reaction while indoors. That’s because the filtration system is much better — less leaky, smaller particle trapping — than our old system could deliver.

We had three bids. EMH’s proposal came out in the middle. But I’m convinced the quality was tops.

Electrify My Home does great work for a reasonable price. We had them install a heat pump, hot water heat pump and insulation. They were super knowledgeable and informative about options, as well as rebates. They also provided all we needed for the final inspection from the city of Berkeley. Both the heat pump and hot water heat pump work great and are much cheaper to run. The heat pump is also much quieter than our previous gas furnace. And the extra insulation that was added has been a major improvement -- even without the heat pump our upstairs rooms are much more stable in terms of temperature -- both summer and winter. Highly recommend Larry, Alex and the rest of the Electrify My Home team.

Thanks Larry and Team for helping to electrify our home. You have been great to work with and very professional. The work to design and install our HVAC heat pump system, hot water heat pump and upgrade our attic insulation was done in a knowledgeable, skillful and competent manner. Understanding that accidents do happen, you stood behind your work and went beyond what was required to ensure that we were satisfied, such as repairing our wood floor after a tool was dropped, repairing and painting our ceiling due to a mishap, and returning to fix the hot water heat pump so we could pass the city inspection. Glad to hear that you are working with many of our like minded friends and neighbors that we have and continue to refer to you. Keep up the great work. The eyes of future generations are upon us!

Larry and team replaced all my gas heating appliances with heat pumps (both HVAC and water). I'm super happy with the results. Not is my house much more comfortable, but my bills went down during a time of sky-rocketing energy costs. Even after the install, they came back several times to tune things, and make sure all the ducts were working optimally.

I can't overstate how great Larry and Electrify My Home are to work with. After talking with multiple local HVAC places about replacing our indoor-and-outdoor-air-polluting gas water heater and HVAC with a heat pump and heat pump water heater, I learned that many highly rated HVAC businesses don't actually know enough about new heat-pump technology to give good advice. Three different companies discouraged me from moving to heat pump and heat-pump water heater!

That's when I got lucky, met an expert at an electrification non-profit, and was directed to Electrify My Home. From start to finish we were thrilled with the real expertise, service, friendliness, and professionalism of Larry and his crew. It's now been a year and thanks to a combination of our technologies (which we could afford thanks to all the complicated subsidy paperwork Larry et al. handled) and solar panels we not only don't pay for heating, cooling, and hot water, but our house is more comfortable than it was and PG&E has to send us money every year instead of the other way around. Thank you!

p.s. If you're wondering whether indoor-air-pollution is a real thing and maybe is giving your kids asthma, it's really really worth looking into electrification even if you're not into the whole "save the planet" thing

EMH replaced our AC with a heat pump. Thoroughly explained their process in advance and completed the work in the time promised with little to no inconvenience. We subsequently noticed a minor gas leak. EMH responded immediately and corrected the problem, even though it was late afternoon when we called, staying beyond normal working hours to do so. Highly recommend them.

A neighbor highly recommended Larry Waters (president of Electrify My Home) after he’d designed and installed their heat pump system. This recommendation and my strong desire for highly efficient heating and cooling helped me accept the rather hefty up-front investment in our system. For our two-story house, Larry designed a two-unit system that has blown me away with its effectiveness. We stay inside our solar production and have as warm—or cool!—of a house as we’d like, with no guilt or additional cost. It is simply fantastic. On top of that, Larry and his team have been very good to work with and have followed up on finish items as promised. Now another neighbor, who couldn’t wrap his mind around how quiet and effective heat pumps are, felt the cooling on a particularly hot day and is going to switch over from his aged and limited gas furnace to heat pumps, and when the time comes to do it, and no doubt it’ll be Electrify My Home that does it.

There was an interesting article in today's Washington Post regarding how important Heat Pump systems are world wide as a response to climate change and the incredibly hot weather, due to their efficiency and not relying on fossil fuel. This is something we had already realized so it was not a matter of should we go with such a system but rather who to install it. We chose Electrify My Home as they are one of the certified BayRen approved contractors. These folks were EXTREMELY thorough and professional. The crew manager was constantly explaining everything that was going on and treated our home as if it was his own. I can't say enough good things about this company. I will admit, these systems are not cheap, even with all the rebates. And even with the energy savings, I think it will take at least a decade to see a full return on investment. But there are other things to consider. It is extremely quiet, the temperature is constant, versus our old furnace where it was too hot, then too cold, there are no drafts, and it does a great job filtering the air. Highly recommend this solution and this contractor.

I highly recommend Electrify My Home to anyone looking for a top-notch heating and cooling solution. After a headache of constant appliance failures in our new home (dishwasher, washer, and garbage disposal), we were at our wits end when our furnace also died within the first month. My husband had just come out of the hospital at the same time, so having working heat was paramount.

Then came Alex and Larry to the rescue. Within minutes of describing the scenario, they came up with a gameplan to help us with our insurance company, provided an estimate over email, moved around their schedule to accommodate our job, and provided us with free electric space heaters for the days in between so we would stay warm. The crew was clean, efficient, extremely hard-working, and polite. Unlike most of the other contractors out there, they also insisted on having their projects tested by a third-party and getting permits—both of which passed with flying colors. Our zoned heat pump is working flawlessly; we’re so happy to get off of expensive propane heat and offset our AC use with our new solar system.

Outstanding service; excellent workmanship per independent technician who inspected the installation. Really nice people. And the heat (and cooling when that was needed) is a delightful quality! Gentle and effective.