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I wish ground source heat pumps were more affordable, I asked my HVAC installer, he said I was looking at $30K+ including returning the yard to the state it was
by Johnny555 5y ago
I wish ground source heat pumps were more affordable, I asked my HVAC installer, he said I was looking at $30K+ including returning the yard to the state it was in before they trenched in the pipes. That's 3X the cost of the air source heat pump I ended up going with.
- friendzis 5y ago> I wish ground source heat pumps were more affordable I don't think this will ever be the case. Water-to-water (ground source) and air-to-water (air source) heat pumps are effectively the same thing technically sans some tuning for temperatures, therefore the difference in cost of the heat pump itself is never going to be high. The cost difference is in installation costs. Air-to-water heat pump installation is as simple as mounting the external unit and routing a few pipes back to interior unit while water-to-water installation is routing the distributed heat exchanger, which is significantly more labor intensive even if you do not account for landscaping (e.g. done as part of greenfield development which will have landscaping done anyway).