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Old 10-26-2016, 11:44 PM   #71 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Fingie View Post
Wonder if I should invest into geothermal heat, or whatever it's called in English.
That's what it's called in English, and you have better mastery of the language than most native speakers.

I'm very interested in a geothermal heat pump too, but even more scared about a break in the line. My friend has had 2 breaks in his water main and 2 breaks in his irrigation in the 3 years he has owned his house. It was very labor and time consuming to locate and fix these breaks, and I'd hate to think how impossible it is to fix a break in a line that is 10 times longer, and buried deeper.

For a small house, I don't think it makes sense to install such an expensive heating solution.

I'd be more comfortable installing a geo heat solution on the bottom of a pond so that breaks could be repaired relatively easily. Then again, breaks would probably be more likely too.

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