Woo hoo! Accepted offer on house we are selling

[Flynnster]

Just curious but with geothermal will you be drilling deep wells or running tubes shallow around your property?

[hotreds]

Congrats, brother!

[forgop]

Originally Posted by Flynnster

Just curious but with geothermal will you be drilling deep wells or running tubes shallow around your property?

No idea just yet-leaving that up to the #1 geothermal company in the state/#5 nationally to tell me. I have a pond about 100' behind my house, but there's an easement and I don't know that I can get approval to use that. I've already asked the question at least. I hate the thought of having to screw up too much of my yard.

[forgop]

Originally Posted by Flynnster

Just curious but with geothermal will you be drilling deep wells or running tubes shallow around your property?

Had the first guy come out today. He said to go the shallow route would literally destroy my entire back yard. The other option is digging a deep 10'x10' square and then going sideways, so that's how I'd be doing it.

He gave me a very rough estimate of $25k for geothermal with an additional air handler for upstairs, 3 zones/thermostats. To go with 2 heat pumps and a 95% furnace back up and the additional work necessary would be pushing around $18k. Gee let me think...$18,000-$1,500 = $16,500 for non-geo, while a geo system would net me $17,500 OOP after the applicable rebates. That's a no-brainer. The current system had $400 gas bills last winter and the guy said with the geothermal system, my hvac cost would never hit $100/month for a 4400 sq. ft house. Sign me up!

[longknocker]

Congrats & GL With The Renovations, Brother!