Geothermal Heat Pump Project

[spdljohn]

Geothermal is great. We just finished building our house about two mts ago. Three level house with 6800 square feet and one 6 ton water furnace unit. We did blown foam insulation everywhere with an encapsulated crawl space. Did horizontal loop. 3200 feet of pipe 8-9 feet down, 2 foot wide trenches. I rented a 314 cat excavator and dug the trenches myself.
We also have desuperheater with 2 50 gallon storage tanks and this summer our gas water heater has not come on.
We are also heating our pool with a 4 ton water furnace unit but don't have the loop hooked up yet.
Right now there is a 30% tax credit for geo units. In other words if your unit costs $60k you get $20k tax credit, not deduction.
Big fan of geothermal. Water furnace in would rate a 7/10. My installers were not that great to work with and water furnace slow to respond to service issues.

 

[OldMcDonald]

I would like to add my thanks to techman for this. I had seen the thread long ago and lost it. What is the best way, short of copying everything to my computer (where I would not have any updates) to make it wasy to find the thread again? I am bound to forget or lose a note of the thread title.

 

[newbury]

I would like to add my thanks to techman for this. I had seen the thread long ago and lost it. What is the best way, short of copying everything to my computer (where I would not have any updates) to make it wasy to find the thread again? I am bound to forget or lose a note of the thread title.

Click on thread tools and suscribe.

 

[OldMcDonald]

newbury, Thanks for your quick response. I already receive notification at "My Home" when a new post is made to anything where I have posted - I was looking for an easy way to make sure I do not "lose" access to threads where nobody posts for a while. Threads on this site soon move down quite a few pages if nobody posts to them. Whilst I was specifically asking in relation to this thread, there have been a few others over the last nine years where I would have liked to be able to access the information again. I thought some others would have been in the same situation and found a quick way of being able to find the old threads they wanted to check out, say for a project where they knew everybody who could help had done so two or three years previously.

 

[doxford jim]

Just a note to say thanks for doing this write up - I have only just found it this morning. Could have done with this information months ago, but even now it clears up lots of questions I had.

 

[OldMcDonald]

Jim, How did you manage to find the thread? Apart from scrolling through my "subscribed threads" list I still have not found a way to, shall we say bookmark, a thread to be able to find it again. There might not be an answer, and subscribing even a bit of nonsense does add it to the list.

 

[Country Geek]

I use a gmail address in my profile and subscribe to threads. That way if I have to find an old thread I just search my gmail for TBN notifications from it, they contain links.

 

[doxford jim]

Jim, How did you manage to find the thread? Apart from scrolling through my "subscribed threads" list I still have not found a way to, shall we say bookmark, a thread to be able to find it again. There might not be an answer, and subscribing even a bit of nonsense does add it to the list.

I just happened to come across the thread when I was looking for more information on Geothermal Heat Pump Systems. I have had a few problems with my old (approx. 20 years old) system and needed some input on what I should do. I had my own ideas but really needed confirmation on what should be done. Voila, I found this thread and it has lead me to other posts too.
I have to say that "techman" has been a great help to me.
For future reference I just add this link to my favourites and bookmark it - I use Internet Explorer and use Google as my search engine.
HTH.
Cheers

 

[OldMcDonald]

Thanks Jim. I have a fairly new computer with Portuguese language software - I am not fluent in Portuguese, nor do I know much about how to operate the things apart from typing and clicking the odd button. However, I have now managed to mark the thread so I can find it again. The TBN logo will let me see it easily in a list.