Posted on 11/07/2010 4:26:48 PM PST by plinyelder
That's the wood shop and summer kitchen/brewery.
Your place is like a resort. The front design of your home reminds me of Gonstead Clinic in Mt. Horeb, unless it’s changed since 1995. Who deserves it more than a FReeper! Thanks for sharing it.
Bfl
To answer a few of the questions
1) A heat pump is like turning a window AC around. During the summer you notice the hot air that blows off the outside. Turned around it blows inside
2) The efficiency of the Heat pump is dependent on SEER. Like MPG the higher the better. I bet your existing is a 10 SEER
3) The Geothermal systems use ground water instead of outside air. It is like the outside air is always 50 deg. Not too far to heat or cool
4) Insulate, insulate insulate. Keeping what heat you have inside is the cheapest.
When your AC Heat pump comes on unless you have more than one thermostat it heats/ cools the entire house. Electric heat is not that efficient but a smaller heater in a room will cost less than the heat pump for whole house.
Energy for heating a home isn’t a problem here. The primary problem is cooling.
The ground source heat pump does a marvelous job cooling our place. The Missouri Ozarks is very hot and humid in the summer. Keeping direct sun light out is also a good idea. Our house faces west so the architect designed the house with very large overhangs to protect the windows.
Just FYI in case you don't know,
2 X 1500W=3000W=3KW.
3KW x .13=$.39 per hour
x 24hr=$9.36 per day
x 30 days=$280.80.
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