wpala
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2009
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- 55
- Location
- Bruce Mines, Ontario
- Tractor
- Kubota B2920, Kioti CK30 HST, Kioti RX7320
Hi
we have a geothermal system installed in our house 2 separate furnaces 5 & 3 ton one handles lower level+ garage, 2 upstairs, the problem we have is that system was shut of in the garage while it was being finished and insulated once that was done we started the system and pex pipe froze and leaked under the concrete it destroyed our water pump since the stupid system was design to hooked up to our fresh water supply only to top up the system when needed and since the pipe was leaking the system was constantly taking water from the well also our well dried up fro a while, anyway to make a long story short we are suing the company that installed the system that their design for a northern climate was inadequate (North Ontario) and the lack of proper antifreeze in the system, my argument is that even when system would shut down with the proper antifreeze in the system nothing should happened (burst pex pipe) they clime that we started the garage to late in the season.
My question is who is right and do I have a valid case against them? to repair the system would be 20K -estimate from on another company, I think they are crazy stating that I started the system too late in the season the only thing would happen is the period of getting the slab to worm up would be longer( and cost me more $) but it should have never cause burst pipe, anyone with any thoughts how should I handle this? also on the separate note I think geo system advertise has overblown savings in them our hydro to run those compressors are quite high + they need aux heating elements in the boilers to get the water to a higher temp and keep it at that level, it is very convenient but not cheap especially that far North
Paul.W
we have a geothermal system installed in our house 2 separate furnaces 5 & 3 ton one handles lower level+ garage, 2 upstairs, the problem we have is that system was shut of in the garage while it was being finished and insulated once that was done we started the system and pex pipe froze and leaked under the concrete it destroyed our water pump since the stupid system was design to hooked up to our fresh water supply only to top up the system when needed and since the pipe was leaking the system was constantly taking water from the well also our well dried up fro a while, anyway to make a long story short we are suing the company that installed the system that their design for a northern climate was inadequate (North Ontario) and the lack of proper antifreeze in the system, my argument is that even when system would shut down with the proper antifreeze in the system nothing should happened (burst pex pipe) they clime that we started the garage to late in the season.
My question is who is right and do I have a valid case against them? to repair the system would be 20K -estimate from on another company, I think they are crazy stating that I started the system too late in the season the only thing would happen is the period of getting the slab to worm up would be longer( and cost me more $) but it should have never cause burst pipe, anyone with any thoughts how should I handle this? also on the separate note I think geo system advertise has overblown savings in them our hydro to run those compressors are quite high + they need aux heating elements in the boilers to get the water to a higher temp and keep it at that level, it is very convenient but not cheap especially that far North
Paul.W