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Originally Posted by Flynnster
Just curious but with geothermal will you be drilling deep wells or running tubes shallow around your property?
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Had the first guy come out today. He said to go the shallow route would literally destroy my entire back yard. The other option is digging a deep 10'x10' square and then going sideways, so that's how I'd be doing it.
He gave me a very rough estimate of $25k for geothermal with an additional air handler for upstairs, 3 zones/thermostats. To go with 2 heat pumps and a 95% furnace back up and the additional work necessary would be pushing around $18k. Gee let me think...$18,000-$1,500 = $16,500 for non-geo, while a geo system would net me $17,500 OOP after the applicable rebates. That's a no-brainer. The current system had $400 gas bills last winter and the guy said with the geothermal system, my hvac cost would never hit $100/month for a 4400 sq. ft house. Sign me up!