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Belmont Resident · 02-05-2013, 04:27 PM

If the place is not a full time residence then you do not want geothermal.
Also other things to consider are how the house was built, is it very well insulated?
Geothermal is not something you turn on and off or up and down, it takes hours maybe days to heat up and stabilize to temp.
I am right now re-painting inside a house that was built 7-8 years ago in Southdown, and it uses geothermal to heat and cool. It cost him a little over $1100 a year for heating and cooling costs for a 7500sqft home. Unbelievable for a house that size, but he also designed the house around the geothermal system pretty much.
Geothermal works great and there was or still maybe a lot of tax credit benefits to installing it, but I wouldn't recommend it for an older house or a small house or camp.

02-05-2013, 04:27 PM	#9
Belmont Resident Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Belmont NH but prefer Jackman Maine Posts: 1,857 Thanks: 491 Thanked 410 Times in 251 Posts	Full time/part time? If the place is not a full time residence then you do not want geothermal. Also other things to consider are how the house was built, is it very well insulated? Geothermal is not something you turn on and off or up and down, it takes hours maybe days to heat up and stabilize to temp. I am right now re-painting inside a house that was built 7-8 years ago in Southdown, and it uses geothermal to heat and cool. It cost him a little over $1100 a year for heating and cooling costs for a 7500sqft home. Unbelievable for a house that size, but he also designed the house around the geothermal system pretty much. Geothermal works great and there was or still maybe a lot of tax credit benefits to installing it, but I wouldn't recommend it for an older house or a small house or camp. __________________ "better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, then a long life spent in a miserable way.."