Archive for the Installation Category
Track Geothermal Performance with New Product from EnergyWise Partners
EnergyWise Partners
For those of you who have security systems in your home, you know that your service provider will call when it is time to change your batteries. They can monitor your security system to ensure it is operating effectively from an office one hundred miles away. What if you, as a geothermal contractor, could offer this same service to your clients after installing geothermal systems? Thanks to support from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSR ...
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Top Five Questions About Geothermal Retrofits
A lot of people who are interested in geothermal heating systems for their home already have a heating system in place. While it is obviously easiest to install a geothermal system in a brand new house, there are many options available with geothermal retrofits to adapt your current system. Here are some of the common questions about geothermal retrofits that will help you decide if that option is right for your home.
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How to Choose the Right Geothermal Contractor
It can easily be argued that the most important decision to make when purchasing a geothermal heating and cooling system is choosing the right contractor. There is a phrase in the heating and air conditioning industry that the biggest factor in determining the efficiency of a heating and air conditioning system is the quality of the installation. While there are several other factors that contribute towards efficiency, the quality of the installation definitely plays a large ...
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How Deep Are Geothermal Loops?
A geothermal heating and cooling system consists of two main components: the heat pump and the ground loop. While some people in the industry refer to the ground loop as the heat exchanger, many people simply refer to it as the loop or the loop field.
After a geothermal system has been installed for several months to a year, the grass from the drilling will have grown back a person could walk over the loop field and not even know that it exists. This is ironic considering how important of a ...
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Proper Geothermal System Sizing
First and foremost, we'd like to wish all of our viewers a very happy New Year! We're excited about 2012 and the potential the geothermal heating and cooling industry has to grow in the coming year. We'd like to start this year off (blog wise, at least) by touching on something that we think is of the utmost importance to our industry's growth and success. Perhaps the most important part of a geothermal installation takes place before the ground is broken. That's right - sizing the geothermal he ...
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