GeoComfort 4th Quarter Clean Air Promotion The World’s Most Efficient Humidifier Just Got Better! GeoComfort announces a special fourth quarter Clean Air promotion available October 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011. Homeowners will save $300 off of the installed price of an EWC® S2000 or S2020 Steam Humdifier purchased and installed in conjunction with a GeoComfort geothermal heat pump system … Continue reading
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GeoComfort’s New Lifetime Warranty
GeoComfort now offers a Limited Lifetime Compressor Warranty for additional peace of mind. This is available to all of Green Bay, Appleton and Fox Valley customers and compliments our standard 5/5/5 + 10C coverage, or can be combined with the 10-year extended warranty. All GeoComfort models are supported by the best factory warranty options the industry has to … Continue reading
Geothermal and Hot Water Baseboard Heat – Don’t Do It!
Just talked to another guy today about hot water baseboard heat and geothermal. Does it work? KINDA works. It will ‘probably’ work as long as it doesn’t get colder than 25 degrees out. Reason being is that baseboard radiant heat is designed around 160 / 180 degrees. Geothermal maxes out at 120 / 140 degrees. It’s the chink in its armor. Now, … Continue reading
Geothermal Works – Guaranteed!
There are many conventional HVAC contractors, builders, even home owners out there that will tell you all the reasons why geothermal DOESN’T work. You must get the facts. Talk to people who install it, understand it and most importantly, live it. You can easily design and/or install the top of the line geothermal ‘box’ in a bad situation and it will NOT perform. Likewise, … Continue reading
Poor Geothermal Installations
Alternate Energys, Inc continues to receive phone calls from unhappy ‘Geo’ customers wanting us to explain, fix or re-design there installed system and in worst case scenarios replace the Geo unit with a conventional gas system. COMPLAINTS: High electric bills System is noisy Multiple failures Poor comfort levels Installing contractor is unable to service due to lack of knowledge or … Continue reading
Commercial Cost Comparison
My cost comparison program is not responding tonight but, I can do it long hand based on the loads I have compiled. The building will consume approximately 181 million btu’s annually (heating) (NOTE: This Commercial Building is approximately 6500 square feet) HEATING SAVINGS 1 million btu’s generated using a $1.00 per therm natural gas cost and a 95% AFUE boiler … Continue reading
Sizing a Geothermal Unit
The first step in properly sizing a Geothermal system (or any system for that matter) is to generate a BTU heat loss load calculation for the structure based on the heating degree days of the area the building is being constructed. With our Geothermal installations I am not concerned with the ‘cooling’ degree days due to the dominant heating load … Continue reading
