Geothermal Heating

The most efficient and economical resource for heating your home is right in your own backyard. For years, people have talked about the possibility of tapping the earth's solar storage capacity for practical, low-cost residential energy management. Now the technology to achieve this is available to you.

The concept is simple. Water and an alcohol solution circulate through a series of plastic pipes (called a loop) placed in the ground or submerged in a pond. Heat is absorbed and carried to the geothermal unit, which extracts the heat, compresses it to higher temperatures and distributes it through the home. In either case, the process is reversed during the summer months by removing the heat from inside the home.

Benefits

• Environmentally Friendly

• Quiet and Safe

• No Carbon Monoxide

• Longer Life

• Helps with Heating Water

• Lowest Maintenance

• No Flue

• Compact

• Large Heating Capacity

• Moist Heat

• Operation Savings Up to 70% Over Conventional Systems

A vertical loop may be installed for the geothermal piping. Vertical installations might also be used for existing buildings, and for large commercial or educational facilities.

To install a vertical loop, we will bore holes into the ground. Long, hairpin-shaped loops of pipe are then inserted. The hole is backfilled, plugged or grouted, and the pipes are connected to headers in a trench leading back to the building.

The drilling depth is determined by the lowest total cost based on the conditions at the job site. A typical borehole depth is 150 to 250 feet. The objective of a vertical borehole is to install a specific amount of pipe, not to reach a certain depth. If 600 feet of pipe are required, three 200-foot boreholes are acceptable and may be more cost-effective.

Drilling boreholes for geothermal loops is much simpler than drilling to find well water. The borehole is generally smaller, which reduces drilling time, and no casing is required because the hairpin-shaped loop is the casing.

Geothermal works with radiators and underfloor heating. There are two types of Under Floor Heating.

1. Wet systems - warm water circulating within polyethylene pipes.
2. Electric systems - electric matting.
Both methods are installed within the floor structure or makeup.

Zyggis Rock Drilling works in conjunction with Invisible Heating Systems to provide the first of these, the Wet Geothermal Heating System. Check out Invisible Heating Systems Web Site for more Information.

If you are looking for any of the services we offer, please feel free to contact us to provide you with a quote.