Geothermal heat pump provides lots of benefits
Choosing a style of heating and cooling method for our up-to-date construction home was difficult; My fiance and I researched every possible option.
Both of us looked into boilers and radiant floor heating but weren’t cheerful about the lack of cooling capacity.
Both of us considered a oil furnace and a/c combination but didn’t appreciate sacrificing space, potential energy waste and the air contamination caused by ductwork. Both of us then started checking out the strange styles of electric heat pumps. The luck of a heat pump is that a single unit provides both heating and cooling capability. Both of us eventually discovered geothermal ground-source heat pumps. This style of temperature is rated as the most environmentally friendly by the EPA. Although it is a single of the most valuable types of systems to install, the energy savings properly recovers the investment in under 5 years. A geothermal heat pump can achieve an efficiency rating of 400%, for every single unit of energy consumed to operate the equipment, it produces many units of energy. The geothermal heat pump takes luck of the stable temperature underground. It pulls free heat out of the earth and pumps it indoors, then during the summer, the method reverses direction and pulls heat from the home and delivers it into the ground. There is no combustion process which eliminates greenhouse gasses. The process is appealingly clean and safe. The heat pump is installed inside the house, protected from weather and should last us 20 years or more. The underground loop is warrantied for 50 years and can be expected to last twice that. Along with providing ideal year round comfort and effective dehumidification, the geothermal heat pump also offers a virtually free source of hot water.