Eight Fast Facts About Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Admittedly, it’s a big step to endorse the installation of a geothermal heating and cooling system for your home. But it is a step up. And plenty of Lancaster homeowners will tell you so – particularly those who signed on with Gochnauer at Home for their geothermal system installation. If you’re still trying to wrap your head around it, not quite psyched to choose, give these geothermal facts a whirl:

  • Present-day geothermal technology is a proven technology that’s been put to the test – and acing it! – for upwards of 50 years.
  • As it is, there are considerably more than one million commercial and residential geothermal heating and cooling installations in the United States alone.
  • Overall happiness with geothermal heating and cooling is high, with owners rating the comfort, convenience, and energy savings their geothermal systems afford higher than that of any other system with which they’re familiar.
  • A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study shows that geothermal systems have the lowest life-cycle costs of any other heating and cooling system now sold.
  • Maintenance spending is noticeably lower with geothermal than with common central HVAC systems chiefly because geothermal systems have relatively few moving mechanisms and require relatively little maintenance to begin with.
  • Geothermal heating and cooling systems normally will last for a solid 30 to 50 years, whereas conventional HVAC systems generally must be repaired or replaced after 15 years.
  • Comparing the cost of local utilities and fossil fuel to the cost of running a geothermal heating and cooling system reveals that Lancaster owners of geothermal systems normally realize energy savings ranging anywhere from 30 to 70 percent!
  • Geothermal heating and cooling systems are far more environmentally responsible than any fossil fuel system, generating, by comparison, almost one pound less of CO2 for each hour of use.

If these fast facts have made a geothermal heating and cooling system look more irresistable to you, contact Gochnauer at Home, the Lancaster geothermal pros, today. There’s much more we can tell you to set your mind at ease. And when you’re ready to take the plunge, we have just the geothermal heating and cooling system that’s meant for your home.