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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petras" data-source="post: 288222" data-attributes="member: 216">Lycan I'm in the same boat as you.  We will be building a house out on the 5 acres we just bought last year.  I've pretty much decided to go with a geothermal system utilizing a field instead of bore holes.  Where most people incur the crazy high costs in geothermal systems is in the drilling of bore holes for their field.  I've decided i will dig a horizontal field 10' down.  In my research I've learned that all it takes is 15 degrees difference between the glycol entering the field and the glycol returning from the field.You can use a geothermal system to heat your hot water.  A De-superheater is what would be needed to do this in the summer time.  When I priced out the system I was looking at it was around $13k.  This included everything needed to heat and cool the house, provide in floor heat, and also provide a heat source for the hot water heater.  It also includes all the tubing and glycol for the horizontal field as well.  This doesn't include a backup heat supply just in case on the coldest of days the system can't quite keep up.  For that I'd just plan on installing an electric heat element in the duct work to help out.  The perks of a geothermal system are that they are crazy energy efficient.  The require only 25% of the energy used through a traditional heating system as there is no Fuel to Heat conversion being done.  It's just simply a transfer of BTU's from one place to the other.  The other perk, is that you get both heating in the winter and Cooling in the summer.  Another plus about a Geothermal system is that Most power companies will allow a guy to install the "heat pump" on an off peak meter which means even more money savings.I should also add that I'll be installing the whole thing myself with equipment that is readily available to me.  I plan on going 10' deep with the trenches for the horizontal field.  I think This should be down plenty deep enough to provide adequate BTU transfer through the winter to provide enough heat for the house.I also looked into one of those remote wood burner shacks for heating the house, but the thought of having to either cut/split wood, or haul coal and load it a couple times a day wasn't real appealing.  I may decide to use one of those units to provide heat for the shop that I plan to build, but that's a bit down the road and won't necessarily be heated full time.</blockquote>

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