The cost of natural gas has almost doubled.

If you have natural gas or LP gas heat, you burn that gas in your furnace to produce hot air to heat your home, but now the cost of natural gas has more than doubled (and will continue to increase), and burning hydrocarbons is a major source of CO2 release into the atmosphere. Electric resistance heat has always been expensive to operate, but is still cheap to install so it gets used far too often. Traditional electric air conditioning (and year-round electric heat pumps) are more efficient because they transport the existing heat energy between the indoor spaces and the outdoors (hence the name “Heat Pump”). Unfortunately, on a hot summer day (or cold winter day) when you need the most cooling or heating indoors, the air-coupled heat pump strains to pump heat to or from the extreme outdoor air conditions.

Geo-Thermal (Ground-Coupled) heat pump

A Ground-Coupled heat pump replaces the familiar, noisy outdoor condensing unit with a piped heat exchanger and small compressor that fit inside the furnace cabinet indoors, and very efficiently pumps its heat to or from the constant ground temperature (around 55F year round) via water in a closed loop arrangement. The ground-coupled heat pump does require a buried plastic pipe “loop” to transfer heat from the compressor to the earth’s mass, but the constant temperature of the subsurface earth results in much more efficient system operation.

A Geo-Thermal Heat Pump eliminates the outdoor condensing unit, uses much less power than an air-coupled heat pump, and costs less than burning gas. The FHP Geo-Thermal Heat Pump is based on quality components and efficient designs proven over the last 25+ years in applications all over the country, including thousands in Ohio.

Some people say they do not have enough outdoor space for a geothermal loop, in a 10' by 10' square space in your yard we can install a four ton geothermal ground loop that would heat a 3000+ sq. ft. home. Many homes only need 2.5 or 3. Now go out in your yard and step off a 10 x 10 area. That is where we could install your loop that could save you thousands of dollars throughout the years.

Actually there are several different types of loops that can be installed depending upon the area you have available. Some loops are more economical to install than others, however from the least expensive to the one that costs the most you are only looking at a difference of about $300 per ton.

In general, loops can be in horizontal trenches, in vertical drilled holes, or submerged in an existing pond. Several variations of piping methods and trenching are available depending upon the ground conditions and space available and we would be glad to propose multiple, effective methods for you to chose from. If you have a flowing well, we can even connect “Open Loop” as a Groundwater Heat Pump.

And this makes Geo-Thermal Heat Pumps“What Works” to save you money.