My house is heated with an oil fired boiler and baseboard radiation. My boiler is getting on there and people tell me to convert a heat pump. I can't see anything on the web which would seem to do the job. Are there any heat pumps that will basically replace the boiler and work with the existing baseboard radiation. I am concerned that the heat pumps can produce water at 120 degrees the current boiler heats the water to 180 degrees and radiation baseboard is sized accordingly.

You probably will want to move this thread to the general forum. It will get noticed more there and by people who might be able to answer your question(s). This one is for all out "lunacy", name calling, and general silliness.

I live in Central Oregon on the east side of the Cascade mountains at 4300 Ft..above sea level in a heavily wooded area, it gets cold here in the winters and their is no natural gas so your choices on heating are Propane gas, electric with a heat pump, wood stoves, fireplaces or pellet stoves.
We bought this house in 2004, it was built in 1986. it is all eclectic and had a heat pump, air condition system in it that didn't work very well along with a great first generation pellet stove that work excellent for heating
We had to replace the electric heat pump system the next year and found out the hard way they don't work worth a hoot when the outside air temps get below freezing, 32F The old pellet stove work great until it broke down and we couldn't get parts to fix it so we had to replace it with new modern one, it works good also .
We are having a early cold winter and it looks like I will probably use two tons of pellets this winter, they cost right at $360.00 a ton delivered and last around six weeks under normal winter weather here
I probably jinx myself now and will probably need to buy another ton later this winter

Looking online what I found...



The question is, are you planning on using the heat pump to heat the base board radiation alone?

Were you looking to use it for summer A/C also????
Normally that's done using forced air so duct work is required.

I live in Texas where we have fairly mild winters most of the time. When it does get cold, the wind makes it worse. I have a small living quarters in my shop that uses a heat pump because I have no gas to the shop. I don’t like heat pumps because it works way to hard to pull heat out of the cold winter air to heat your house. The colder it gets, the harder it works. Then the electric takes over. Since the electricity rates have tripled, heating with electricity is going to be very expensive. I don’t know anything about a boiler system but a heat pump does not produce hot water. It makes heat by air blowing over the hot Freon in the coils.