What makes a good residential HVAC system?
Older houses leaked and, to a degree, are uncomfortable and energy inefficient. We may think a cold room is standard in houses or a wood boiler needs to…
Residential Vault by Uponor
We asked Uponor to put together a residential vault and they responded. We’ll be installing this 6-on setup on a client’s property this spring.
Adding Cooling to a Hydronic System
A fair amount of our work is not really “geothermal”. In this case, we are working with an existing boiler hydronic system converted to geothermal. The initial conversion…
Text Chat
With a very busy fall, we have been travelling a lot and not necessarily working in town. A client was getting worried about his geoexchange air/radiant system as…
10 Ton Header
This is not really about a 10-ton header, this is about the issues one needs to think about in header design. This is a picture of a 10-ton…
Mechanical Room Panorama
A recently completed mechanical room with two Waterfurnace water-water heat pumps, Tekmar controls, Wilo loop pump, and the usual mechanics. This is on 16-18′ of wall space. Apologies…
Tearing Apart a Pressurized FlowCentre
Pressurized flowcentres are a common method of pumping a ground loop to a heat pump. On a recent job, I came across a flowcentre that leaked. It leaked…
A Blank Slate
This is a larger geo-radiant system with an HRV unit that we are a few days in to installing. Inside the mechanical room, we have…