Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Plumbing

Today we met with a plumber to talk about how we want to heat and cool the new house. Miles' Dad will be happy to know that we are looking at options other than just forced air. We met with someone today that was very knowledgeable about heating and air conditioning using radiant heat and cooling. It was a very informative discussion.

He's going to give us a price of a standard forced air system, which by the way would require us to have 3 furnaces and 2 water heaters... And also a price for the radiant system with one boiler, an air flow system and a small venting system for circulating outside air. We would probably also install a whole house fan.

The radiant system will be more expensive, but will save us more than 30% per month on our energy bill between gas and electric.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I just went with radiant as well and it cut my overall costs...i love it!

Keep up the good work on the farm!