Geothermal - Introduction

Coming out of the 2011-2012 heating season (paying $3.60 a gallon for heating oil) in our new house my wife and I decided it was time (after only one heating season) to look into alternative heating sources.  We started searching for outside wood burning furnaces when we came upon an ad for geothermal heating. The ad sounded great, green heat, no combustibles, ultra efficient; sounded perfect. 


I'd like to take a week or two to blog about our experience with researching, and deciding to go with geothermal, and show the process of installing the system. I'll be posting the numbers that I came up with which showed why geothermal made sense in our case.