Electrify My Home

We are quite satisfied with Electrify My Home, who recently completed a heat pump project at our home in Berkeley. The performance of the heat pump is a big improvement over our old gas furnace. From the initial assesment to execution and final inspection for rebates, the process was transparent and fair. As an architect I was especially interested in the overall / cohesive approach to energy conservation and cost vs. benefit assessements of the various components, such as how much ductwork to replace. They were also able to accommodate our request to install an electric vehicle charging station. I would not hesitate to recommend Electrify My Home to clients and friends. LH

Our experience with Electrify My Home has been great. Our vintage home with mutliple remodels over the past 100 years is a challenge. The lead planning and administrative staff at EMH patiently walked us through the elements of heat pump HVAC over the past year as we identified and dithered over our goals and options. Chief Larry Waters on site sorted through the tangle of existing ducts with thoughtful solutions of those to remain, along with most being replaced. Administrative staff, Alex Sloan, J. Nicolis and Daniel have thoughtfully responded quickly to questions and requests. Last month the installation crew, Eric, Manny, Justin, Dom and Pedro were similarly professional, efficient and good humored as they worked in the remote corners of our house. The net result is a responsive system, which we tested this last week with the pleasure of having our first AC experience in an October hot spell! We are still learning how to set the system to our needs, but it has demonstrated that it responds well as we learn how to use it. Thanks to all at EMH, this has been an effective change from our energy hog gas furnaces, with the added benefit of adding AC to our lives… good for the Earth and great for us.

It’s been about 6 weeks since Electrify My Home installed a heat pump in our 1,800 sq. ft home. 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, R50 attic insulation, and carefully designed modifications to our existing ductwork. The two units, outside heat pump and inside air handler, are very quiet. The Fujitsu thermostat enables us to set up a weekly schedule with two different temperature set points: one for day and early evening, the other for nightime. I’m allergic to pollen. My histamines go nuts in May and June but I’ve had no allergic reaction while indoors. That’s because the filtration system is much better — less leaky, finer particle trapping — than our old system could deliver. The installation team lead made photos — the old gas furnace model/serial number panel, a capped gas pipe, the old equipment removed and sitting in our driveway, the blown-in attic insulation depth — required as part the documentation for applications for cash rebates and credits. EMH submitted the application for one of those applications (approved). It’s up to me to apply for others but their photos make that easier than it would have been without it. We got three bids. EMH’s proposal, based on a 1-1/2 hour analysis by the company’s founder Larry Waters, came out in the middle. But I’m convinced the quality was tops.

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, extremely hard-working, and polite. 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 heat pump use with our new solar system.