Geothermal heating is an energy- and cost-efficient way to heat and cool your home. It takes advantage of the stable temperature that’s found a few feet below ground and could be a very good way to heat and cool your home.
How does it work? In essence, traditional heat pumps exchange heat between your home to the air outside. In the summer, heat is extracted from your home and moved outdoors. In the winter, heat is extracted from the outdoors and moved inside. When the air outside is below freezing, as it often is in Southwest Ohio in the winter, the heat pump works extra hard to extract the heat necessary to warm up your home.
Instead of transferring heat to and from the outside air, geothermal heating and cooling transfers heat to and from the ground. Not very far down, the ground is at a year-round stable temperature of around 50 degrees. Because the ground is cooler than the air in the summer, and warmer than the air in the winter, it makes the heating and cooling much more energy efficient and will save you a substantial amount of money for your heating and cooling over the years.
In addition to the energy savings, geothermal heating and cooling operates much more quietly. There’s no compressor/condenser making a racket all the time, or indoor blowers with noisy fans. Geothermal, on the other hand, transfers heat directly from the ground using pipes containing a liquid (commonly water with some additives). The piping directly heats or cools the inside air.
Finally, for anyone interested in the environment, using less energy to heat and cool your home is a good idea in and of itself. What makes it really attractive, of course, is the fact that you’ll save substantially on your utility bills, savings that eventually will compensate for the higher up-front cost of a geothermal system.
We at Ace Hardware Home Services, Inc. we can give you all the help you need to determine if geothermal is the way for you to go. We’ve been serving the Dayton area since 1978.
Our goal is to help educate our customers about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). For more information about geothermal heating and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.
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