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Geo-Thermal - Does it work?

Dummy · 2005-04-13 22:02:01

I'm sure you are all throwing your eyes up to heaven saying "not another one". Sorry in advance We will be building a new house towards the end of this year, beginning of 2006. We are really keen on making this house as environmentally friendly as possible and obviously one of the first areas we are looking at is the…

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13-04-2005 11:02pm

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Dummy

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I'm sure you are all throwing your eyes up to heaven saying "not another one". Sorry in advance

We will be building a new house towards the end of this year, beginning of 2006. We are really keen on making this house as environmentally friendly as possible and obviously one of the first areas we are looking at is the heating system.

Is a geo-thermal system as effective as an oil or gas system? With a very young family this question is important to us.

Also can someone explain what a U factor is in energy efficiency? The timber frame house we are looking at has a U Factor of 0.15 - is this good? I have searched for an explanation of U factor but without joy.

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#2 13-04-2005 11:57pm
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Have a look in the Gardening/DIY forum. There's a huge thread about geo-thermal heating.

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#3 15-04-2005 9:26am
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Also check out the thread on Alternative Heating - Grants or as Doper than U has mentiond on the Garening/DIY forum on Geo Theromal Heating

A lot of questions have been asked and answered in both these threads and also included information on wind power and wood peet burning. But feel free to ask some more questions if you want

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#4 17-04-2005 1:20am
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dummy - you are talking about U Values

http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=1153&language_id=1

http://www.tea.ie/faq.htm#9

As the lads + girly said there are a number of threads with a lot of information, but please ask if you are stuck.

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