Eight Fast Facts About Geothermal Heating and Cooling

For sure, it’s a big step to decide on going with a geothermal heating and cooling system for your home. But it is a step up. And plenty of Scranton homeowners will attest to that – particularly those who went with Jim Lamberti Contracting Services, LLC for their geothermal system installation. If you’re still weighing your options, not quite primed to decide, let these eight focal geothermal facts sink in some:

  • Current geothermal technology is a proven technology that’s been vetted and perfected over the course of half a century or so.
  • As it is, there are well over one million commercial and residential geothermal heating and cooling installations here in the States alone.
  • Overall trust in 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 with which they’re familiar.
  • A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study discloses that geothermal systems have the lowest life-cycle costs of any other heating and cooling system now marketed.
  • Maintenance costs are significantly lower with geothermal than with standard central HVAC systems mostly because geothermal systems have relatively few moving mechanisms and require relatively little maintenance in the first place.
  • Geothermal heating and cooling systems can hold up for a respectable 30 to 50 years, whereas common HVAC systems generally are in need of repair or replacement 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 Scranton owners of geothermal systems frequently see a lowering of their energy bills ranging anywhere from 30 to 70 percent!
  • Geothermal heating and cooling systems are known to be more environmentally friendly than any fossil fuel system, producing, by comparison, almost one pound less of CO2 for each hour of use.

If these fast facts have made a geothermal heating and cooling system look more irresistable to you, talk with Jim Lamberti Contracting Services, LLC, the Scranton geothermal pros, today. There’s much more we can tell you to set your mind at ease. And when you’re ready to give the okay, we’ll install just the geothermal heating and cooling system that’s meant for your home.