Are you frustrated with the price of Oil? Geothermal heat is the wave of the future!
I don’t know if I’m just the luckiest person in the world, or just in Southern NH. When my husband and I decided to build our new home in Milford we set out to design an energy efficient home with one floor living, 36″ doors (heaven forbid we ever need wheelchairs we were thinking about), an open concept living area and a master suite for our own world away from the world.
We found the design on the Internet and spent months and months redrawing the room dimensions and floor plans. Next step was to have an architect combine all of our napkin drawings into the master plan. We chose someone that specialized in energy star homes so that cost savings would be built in from the get go.
I just read an article a few days ago about Geothermal heat and there is a seminar discussing the advantages of Geothermal heat, I have to try and find when and where and get back here and let you know.
A friend of mine mentioned one of his clients just built a house and they installed Geothermal heat and it was quite expensive. But his home is a bout 4,000 square feet. Total cost was close to $40,000.00.
That sounds about right for cost. Our home has 4400 square feet of conditioned space and in Spring 2006 it cost us approx. $35,000.
Included in that cost was drilling the double shafted well for domestic water and the geo, TWO geothermal heat pumps which handle all of our heat and air conditioning without an outside compressor (I oversized one of them to also handle the attic of our home for future build (another 1600SF), all the duct work for the basement and first floor, a whole house air/heat exchange unit, and two 75 gal. electric hot water tanks. and installation of all this equipment.
When we priced it out, if we’d gone conventional propane heat and AC, there was about a $10,000 difference. PSNH was offering (and I believe still is) up to a $7500 rebate to install this type of system. Our differential was about $2500!
With 2 1/2 yrs of history, our domestic hot water, heat and AC cost us an average of $100/month!
WOW sounds pretty cool. Email me who you used please?
Thanks Jay