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Hi Tom, nice to meet you. Please give us a link to your channel when you get it up. Heart attacks and strokes run on both sides of my family. Luckily so far I have dodged the bullet, but I’ve seen family members go through heck on the road to recovery from a heart attack or stroke.
-Steve
Hey Pippi, it is kind of hard to explain, but a heat pump is a self contained heating and cooling system that using the flow of the refrigerant to heat or cool. Looking at it like a clock, if the refrigerant is flowing clockwise the system is cooling. Inside the unit there is a reversing valve that when activated changes the flow of refrigerant to counter clockwise which makes the system heat instead of cool. They are great for warmer climates, but really aren’t too practical for colder climates because without a helper heater they aren’t able to generate heat when the temp dips below the high 30’s.
I’ve noticed that in recent years that a lot of the upper end RV’s come with heat pump heat/cooling systems.
It was a lot of fun because that is the stuff I enjoy doing. I’m always either making something or dreaming up something to build.
I worked in the oil fields for several years and some of the drilling locations were not easy to nearly impossible for regular RVs to get to, so we converted semi trailers into tiny houses and bunk houses. They are more rugged and obviously higher off the ground, so they can handle more terrain abuse than your standard RV.
I’ve made a few tiny houses out of old semi trialers. A refrigerated one is great to work with because some of them are already insulated and they seem to be a little more well constructed which gives you a nice base to work with. If you live near a port city, you can usually pick up a retired one for around $1,200. I only paid $800 for the last one I got, but that was about ten years ago now too, but I see them in the paper between 1200 to 1500 dollars. Another little trick for building a tiny house is check with insurance liquidation lots for a wrecked RV. You can usually pick one up real reasonable and save big $$$ in salvaged parts. My last semi trailer conversion I snapped up a wrecked motorhome for $1,200 and the only damage was the front end. Looking back I almost wish I had been smart enough to just cut the front off behind the wheel well and close it in with a sliding glass door and would have had a near instant tiny house.
