Winery heat pump
My whole family is in the grape business.
- My father owns a bunch of vineyards and picks the grapes to sell for jellies, jams and grape juice.
My brother opened up a winery right on the fields and uses the grapes to make his products. Everyone in the family helps out in the grape business. The winery needed a lot of help in the early stages. Getting the building setup was expensive and time consuming. I know my brother had a real hassle with HVAC too. With the wine making process you want to keep the product at a 70 degree temperature. With our northern climate, that means you need both heating and cooling. A hardcore heating system is needed for the winters taht get in the -20s, but the summer does get into the 80s as well. My brother thought he could cheap out on HVAC. He bought a basic heating and cooling machine off the internet and then hired a handyman to install it. The guy installed the HVAC right by the front door to save on work and wiring. It looked terrible and it ran even worse. The inside temperature could barely make 70 degrees and the HVAC died after only a few years of use. The second time around my brother did it right. He called a real HVAC business, bought one of their products and had a heat pump installed in his facility. The HVAC works perfectly fine and hasn’t been a problem since. It keeps the whole space the right temperature year around.