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Geothermal Info

WaterFurnace geothermal heating and cooling relies on the earth’s naturally stored energy to move heat. In the summer, heat is moved from your home into the earth. In the winter, heat is moved from the earth into your home. There is not normally an outside unit. This allows for more pleasing landscape. All mechanically parts normally are in your home. A properly installed WaterFurnace geothermal system normally live 25 years versus 12 years for the typical heating and cooling systems available today. The doubled life span of the system is one of the selling points to a geothermal heating and cooling system.

Above we mentioned that the WaterFurnace geothermal heating and cooling systems relies on the earth’s naturally stored energy to move heat. This is done by the heat put off by the sun year round. The earth absorbs the heat making the earth temperature a fairly constant 69 degrees. The mechanical part of the geothermal system makes up the temperature difference for temperature you are wanting inside your home. All this is typically done using polyethylene pipe. A GSC (geothermal service contractor) normally drills vertically into the earth approximately two hundred feet per ton, one hole per ton. There are three main options to installing the earth loop; vertical loop, horizontal loop and pond loop.