It is, indeed, a big step to endorse the installation of a geothermal heating and cooling system for your home. But it is a step up. And lots of Salem homeowners will affirm that – especially those who looked to Mill Creek Heating for their geothermal system installation. If you’re still trying to wrap your head around it, not quite ready to decide, let these eight focal geothermal facts percolate in your head a little:
- Modern geothermal technology is a proven technology that’s been tried and perfected over the course of 50 years or so.
- Right now, there are considerably more than one million commercial and residential geothermal heating and cooling installations here in the United States alone.
- General satisfaction with geothermal heating and cooling is high, with owners proclaiming the comfort, ease of use, and energy savings their geothermal systems provide higher than that of any other system they’ve had.
- A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study discloses that geothermal systems have the lowest life-cycle costs of any other heating and cooling system on the market today.
- Maintenance spending is noticeably lower with geothermal than with standard central HVAC systems essentially because geothermal systems have very few moving machine parts and require very little maintenance anyway.
- Geothermal heating and cooling systems can last for a respectable 30 to 50 years, whereas traditional HVAC systems generally must be repaired or replaced after 15 years.
- Comparing the cost of local utilities and fossil fuel to the cost of running a geothermal heating and cooling system reveals that Salem owners of geothermal systems frequently realize energy savings ranging anywhere from 30 to 70 percent!
- Geothermal heating and cooling systems are have a well-deserved reputation for being more environmentally responsible than any fossil fuel system, generating, by comparison, roughly one pound less of CO2 for each hour of use.
If these fast facts have made a geothermal heating and cooling system look more appealing to you, contact Mill Creek Heating, the Salem geothermal authority, today. There’s lots more we can tell you to set your mind at ease. And when you’re ready to give the okay, we have just the geothermal heating and cooling system that suits your home.