We Lied. They don’t have a special Valentine’s Day Message. But they do have very special vertical stack heat pumps!

Whalen introduced their first vertical stack water source heat pump in 1972 after being founded ten years earlier. That year, people were watching Season 3 of Love, American Style and listening to Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” while the Whalen team was building the new heat pumps.

Colorado has a fairly large installed base of Whalen products from way back to the 1970’s and 1980’s (and more recent work too.)

Up until 2018 or so, vertical stack fan coils and heat pumps were all that Whalen built.

They do a little bit more now, but we always find these niche manufacturers interesting. What happens when you apply all those decades of experience?

You get focused product development. Little tricks and tweaks to make the product easier to install, last longer, and work better. A good example is the removable chassis that comes with their vertical stack heat pumps.

While you might only spend a few minutes making a heat pump selection, it will take hundreds of hours for a contractor to receive, move, install, pipe, duct, start up and commission all the heat pumps and risers that one selection creates.

Saving a contractor 30 minutes per heat pump is a big deal. Choosing something that makes sense for the owner does too.

To scale the installation for you, here’s an order staged for shipment.
You might see a dozen units or so, but most projects have a few hundred.

Let’s give it the time that it merits and configure them completely.

While most of their product innovation has been focused on reducing installation time, Whalen also spent time and resources on energy efficiency. They now build two highly efficient Whisperline® vertical stack heat pumps.

The single-stage model with EC motor has industry-leading EER’s, 16.0 to 17.0 for the 2, 2.5 and 3-ton models.

The dual-stage model with EC motor and dual stage compressor has full-load EER’s of 15.8 to 16 and part-load EER’s over 17. If the project is getting an energy model, this will really improve the performance.

Let us show you what they can do on your next project!