Follow Us On A Whole House Remodel with Green Features

We’ve just kicked off an exciting project at Red Apple Renovations. It’s a whole house remodel with the addition of an existing home. The interesting thing about this project is that is has some very “green” features. I’ll talk about all the green aspects of this project in the next several weeks, but for this post I’d like to tell you about the progress on the geothermal heating and cooling system.

For those of you who don’t know about geothermal heating and cooling systems, see this blog post. What we’ve done so far on this project is installation of wells that provide energy for the system. On the practical side, well drilling is a interesting activity. We contracted with a well driller to dig two wells for the system. What we didn’t know until we got started was if we would hit granite ledge or ground water. We also didn’t know if the wells would provide adequate energy to the system at the planned depth.

We started once we had our DigSafe inspection and pulled the well permits. The actual well drilling went on for several days. The good news was that everything proceeded as planned and we didn’t have any surprises.

The well drilling itself is a loud activity, but once it’s underway, you barely notice. The wells were completed and grouted last week. This week we dug trenches and brought the well lines into the basement. Later in the project we’ll connect the well lines to the HVAC unit.

Check back soon as I'll post more about this project.

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