Geothermal: How to DIY for cheap!

This is how I added a 2.5 ton geothermal unit onto my furnace so I can heat and cool my house for cheap.

[dwightthoms]

I'm in Canada and a closed loop system works great I've been running this econo-air system for over ten years with no problems, lol I probably just jinxed myself.

[bretgreen]

Far out; hadn't considered utilizing my current well (we also have a high water table at about 20 foot deep or less). I'm going to pursue that line of thinking now. Thank you so much. . .

[craigseifert]

Good job Joe. I'm a fan of the Geo systems. Bought a house 9 years ago that had a 35 year old FHP pump and dump. It bit the dust and I replaced it with a Climatemaster vertical closed loop. I'm soon to move to Tampa and am researching the alternatives and which way to go down there, open or closed. I value your insight, especially the sprinkler zone valve - freaking great idea.

[Pdfflyer]

Good job Joe. I'm a fan of the Geo systems. Bought a house 19 years ago that had a traditional SUMP pump and dump. When It bites the dust and I will replace it with an horizontal open loop, which pumps about 6 gallons a minute from a rather shallow depth. This amounts to all of 2400 gallons a day, without recycling any of the water utilized. There is a very large lake just to the north where I discharge this runoff water directly via a city storm sewer. Currently, I'm searching Craigslist but have not found a good deal as yet.
Still researching the alternatives and which way to go, open or closed. I value your insight, especially the sprinkler zone valve - freaking great idea. Keep up the good work !

[glevideo]

I have a very similar system. It's an open loop system which runs the well pump to push water through the heat exchanger and then dumps the water out the side of the hill the house sits on. I've become wary of this system. I don't think it saves us anything but rather produces higher electric bills because it has to constantly run the well pump. We have a large well pump, 7.5 HP motor and it draws about 45 to 50 amps. It's large to be able to handle geothermal, domestic and irrigation needs all at the same time. I'm considering converting it over to a closed loop system where it would only take a little circulating pump to pump water or glycol through several hundred feet of plastic tubing. This would be much more efficient, save electricity and water. The tubing could be buried in trenches or in a large swimming pool size hole or even stuck down into my water well where it it go to the bottom, 500 feet down, and then make a U-turn and come back up and through the heat exchanger. I'm finding in my conversations with geothermal companies that open loop systems are certainly not as efficient as folks may think.

[NormalnotNormal]

Wow....that is some great information about using the water system as oppose to just the outside air...it totally makes sense... thanks for sharing

[MrSaleen]

Sounds like you know your stuff man. I’m a Bryant dealer in central California and am considering doing some geothermal. Thanks for the video.

[edbouhl]

After watching this I pulled up eBay and was amazed to see the number of water source heat pumps listed! I’m going to research if this could work in conjunction with a fire water tank.

[broadwayFan]

I can't do this with a conscious in Texas - just too many droughts and water shortages to pump ground water and then dump it. My reason to be here watching this is to go green and cut Texas a/c energy use but I Can't at the expense of the water table all my neighbors share with me.

Any system that works for me is going to be a closed system. I did learn from the video and I thank the poster for that.

[bucurilie-lojf]

Nice, very nice, I am not sure the hardness of your water, but a bigger filter or a tandem of two will help.

[sranney]

So you use your drinking water well for your heat pump
How many gallons a minute is your well ?
How does the heat pump use the water ?

[sn]

Thanks for your video. Your geothermal system is as simple as it can get.

I have a similar situation in which my shallow well of 40' provides abundant water(55 F) supply and I also have a place to dump the water. Though I would like to put a similar system, I have two questions.

1. How often do you have to flush out the salts (Ca, Fe etc) which may accumulate on the heat-exchanging surface?
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2. After one year of use, do you observe any corrosion on the pipes and heat exchanging surface where well water runs through within the geothermal unit?:

[paulbaker]

It’s dumping the water into a creek. Ok, well that solves that issue lol. Are you not concerned about pumping water out of your well. But you have given me a idea. If we want a pond we need to pump water from a well everyday and it could go through a water source heat pump. The daily water would just make up for leakage and evaporation. But I’m concerned about heating the pond in Summer and cooling it in Winter. I guess there’s always trade offs. Thanks

[silviad]

The graphics are so cute lol. Thanks for the info Mr. Handsome. 😁😁

[vLife]

Nice job. How has this been working? What part of Florida you in? Know what the temp of your water is in August? I have an off grid property in Lake Placid Florida and was able to hit water at just 15'. I'm wondering if possible to cool an 8x8 insulated shack that's under the trees down to 75F when it's 95F outside in August? Something DIY with a small fan and radiator powered by Solar and Lithium. Also was thinking of maybe instead burying a big flat aluminum container 10' under the shack and leverage the fact that hot air rises and push air through in a closed loop air system where I suck hair from the very bottom of the tank, and pull it from the very top the shack.

[doddgarger]

Need to pump the wastewater into a storage tank for later use..

Thanks for the video!

[mrfauk]

Why are u not repumping the water back into the well?? Through a filter, ! ...

[jimlewis]

What if you dumped the water back into your well? Depending on how deep it was I wonder if the temp at the bottom where you were drawing from would not be affected by the water getting dumped back on top.

[randynobles]

I thought those unit went threw 8, 000-22, 000 gallons a day must have really slowed the flow down or have a good well might want to think about digging a deep trench to bury some pex you can get a thousand foot for $200 and repump it

[Vothtrucks]

Awesome Joe , ( If only I could hear what you were saying )