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If you're going to already do trenching, read about geothermal heat pumps. The majority of the cost associated with installation in existing homes is the trenching. A frames are a bitch to heat / cool / ventilate right (you can get it right, just get an expert to can prove they've designed HVAC for an A frame that worked well before). With metal roofing and EPS-insulated siding, it's not even like A frames have a maintenance advantage against a more traditional home form factor. If I had your money, it would go into a craftsman with a white metal roof and fullback EPS vinyl siding as thick as I could buy it. No basement because gently caress pouring money into an actual hole. That's money more efficiently spent above ground or in investments. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Aug 10, 2018 |
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Aug 10, 2018 17:41
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Consider that an attached, well-insulated, climate-conditioned garage with a concrete pad pour over insulated fill can be absolute heaven in bad weather and winter.
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Aug 10, 2018 17:57
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I have a cousin who installed geothermal HVAC in an artificial runoff pond. It cost him about $4k in the pumping and heat exchanger equipment itself, $1k of a licensed HVAC installer's time hooking up the traditional parts of the system, and a $1k bobcat at auction in Sacramento
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Aug 10, 2018 18:02
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If you don't want this to be a "dump ideas / experience / things you've read" thread please say so  Also, are you licensed to operate a nuclear reactor in the United States 
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Aug 10, 2018 18:09
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