5 surprising benefits of geothermal heating and cooling

If you are a homeowner, you are probably intimately familiar with the costs and maintenance that go into to heating and cooling your home.

Most homes in the nation are heated with either furnaces or boilers, and cooling typically comes from a central air conditioning.

While both of these methods of heating and cooling a home are effective, they lack efficiency and therefore tend to be more costly.

Geothermal systems, on the other hand, are both efficient and economical.

In addition to their efficiency and cost-effective advantages, geothermal systems have many other surprising benefits. Check out these five surprising benefits of geothermal:

1. QUIET: Have you ever been in a home where you could tell the heat or AC had kicked on just because of a particular noise? Geothermal systems, which emit the the same noise level as a refrigerator, are the most quiet heating/cooling systems on the market.
2. SAFETY: With a geothermal unit heating and cooling your home, you won’t have to worry about the dangers of gas leaks or carbon monoxide poisoning.
3. ONE SYSTEM: With the advanced technology of geothermal only one system is necessary to both cool and heat your home. Geothermal technology uses the earth’s renewable energy to provide high-efficiency heating and cooling. It draws heat from the ground and transfers it to your home in the winter and extracts heat from your home and transfers it to the ground in the summer. No more worrying about maintaining two separate systems when one system can heat and cool your house more effectively.
4. MAINTENANCE: With a single system, and fewer moving parts, there is generally less to maintain. In addition, geothermal units are sheltered from the weather because they typically reside inside your home.
5. LIFE EXPECTANCY. A properly designed geothermal unit’s life expectancy is 25 to 30 years whereas most conventional heating/cooling systems have a life expectancy of 15 to 20 years.