Hvac peoples

First off, yes, heat pumps provide cooling. It’s called a heat pump because it’s always pumping heat…from inside to outside (cooling) or outside to inside (heating). There’s a reversing valve that changes the direction the refrigerant flows.

Unfortunately you can run into capacity issues as it starts to get down past freezing outside as they were designed for more temperate climates (think SE Asia). So, you need to get a performance run for your climate to make sure it’ll provide the heat you need in the dead of winter otherwise you may not get the heat you want without supplementing with some other form of heat (electric heating coil, or other).