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Lambert: Heat pump hardware is only about 20% of installation cost
“The relative cost of the heat pump itself is Is, it's small. It's probably 20% or so of the overall cost.”
Lambert: Quilt buys line hide for $1/ft versus US distributors' $25/ft
“The typical distributors today, if you go at, kind of, if you're a contractor and you're gonna go buy it from one of the big distributors, you're paying about 25 dollars a foot for that line hide. We've been able to source it from China for less than a dollar …”
Lambert: Most HVAC contractors initially refused to sell him a heat pump
“Where I had to talk to multiple people to even find a contractor would sell me one. Like, most people wouldn't even sell me a heat pump when I wanted it.”