Heat Pump Installation in West Vancouver

Custom heating and cooling, from Ambleside bungalows to the British Properties.

Porcupine Mechanical designs, installs, and maintains heat pumps for West Vancouver homes. Whether it's a furnace on its last winter or a bedroom that bakes in July, you'll get real numbers, honest options, and a system designed around your home.

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Beautiful homes deserve mechanical systems that keep up

Here's a pattern we see all over West Vancouver: a genuinely stunning home, renovated, cared for, worth every bit of its view, running on a heating system installed back when gas was cheap and nobody on the coast thought they'd ever need air conditioning.

The house moved with the times. The mechanical room didn't.

Here are a few of the patterns we see most often up here:

West Coast Modern and view homes: Caulfeild, Cypress Park, Altamont

All that glass facing the water is glorious in November and a greenhouse in July. Big-glazing homes need cooling designed around real solar gain, not rules of thumb, and installs that respect the architecture. Concealed and low-profile systems are some of our favourite work: full performance, barely a visual footprint.

Hillside homes: British Properties, Chartwell, Canterbury

Strata rules, compact mechanical spaces, and close neighbours make equipment choice and placement matter. We design quiet, low-profile systems around your strata's conditions and handle the documentation your council needs to approve it.

Boiler and radiant homes

West Vancouver has more hydronic heating than almost anywhere we work. We hold boiler tickets alongside our refrigeration licence, so this is an honest conversation, not a pitch: sometimes the right move is servicing the boiler you have, sometimes it's adding a heat pump for cooling and efficiency, sometimes it's a full transition. We'll lay out the options and let you drive.

Bungalows, condos, and townhomes: Ambleside, Dundarave, Park Royal

Postwar bungalows near the village often have no ductwork — ductless mini-splits handle those with minimal disruption. And for stratas, we design around approval conditions from the start: placement, noise levels, sightlines, and the paperwork your council needs to say yes.

Made for coastal weather

West Vancouver's climate with mild, wet winters and increasingly warm summers is close to ideal operating territory for a modern heat pump. One system keeps the house warm in January and cool in July, quietly enough for close neighbours and strata rules alike.

And as a CleanBC registered contractor, we'll walk you through the rebate programs your project qualifies for during your consult the programs shift often and we keep current so you don't have to.

Heat pump service & repair in West Vancouver, too

Heat Pump Installation

Designed from your home's measured heat load, quoted in full before work begins, air-balanced before we call it done.

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Service & Repair

Diagnosis first, quote before any work starts. Sometimes a repair is honestly the right answer — we'll tell you when it is.

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The Comfort Club

Twice-yearly proactive maintenance with priority scheduling, and for vacation properties, 24/7 monitoring that catches problems while you're not there.

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What your West Vancouver neighbours say

Designed from your home's measured heat load, quoted in full before work begins, air-balanced before we call it done.

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Diagnosis first, quote before any work starts. Sometimes a repair is honestly the right answer, and we'll tell you when it is.

First Name - Neighbourhood

West Vancouver questions, answered straight

Is West Vancouver really part of your service area?

Yes, a core part of it. We install, repair, and run Comfort Club visits across West Vancouver year-round (North Vancouver too)

My home has a boiler and radiant floors. Do heat pumps even apply to me?

Often, yes... and we're one of the few contractors who can talk about it from both sides, because we hold boiler tickets too. Whether the answer is servicing your boiler, pairing it with a heat pump, or transitioning fully, you'll get the options.

Can a heat pump keep a glass-heavy view home cool in summer?

Yes, if it's sized from real data. Solar gain through big glazing is exactly the kind of thing a proper heat load measurement captures and a square-footage guess misses.