Many customers of ours are unaware of the fact that we are fully qualified to install geothermal systems. If youre confused as to what exactly a geothermal system consists of, youre definitely not alone. Although its safe to say that this type of heating and cooling system is far from new, it has become quite a bit more popular over the years.

As popular as geothermal may seem there tends to be several myths that go along with this interesting twist on heating and cooling. Here are a few myths weve come across when helping ease our geothermal interested customers:

• Geothermal heat pumps are too loud. The truth is that actually geothermal pumps run very quietly. There also fails to be any visible equipment outside your home to bother your neighbors.
• Geothermal pumps can only heat one item at a time ie: water heater, home, etc. Depending on the size of your system your G.P. can handle multiple outlets at the same time.
• Geothermal systems put Freon in the refrigerant lines going into the ground. Actually the majority of the time the liquid going into the unground loops is a mixture between water and antifreeze.
• Geothermal systems use too much water. The geothermal systems do not actually use up any water. Older geothermal models had issues with water waste once the water passed through the heat exchanger, but those problems have since been resolved and are no longer used. The systems now actually save millions of gallons of water due to being unable to evaporate underground.
• Geothermal systems do not use renewable energy because they use electricity. Although geothermal systems do in fact use electricity they only need to function on one unit in order to push up to five units of either heating or cooling to the proper location.

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