InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • All said and done, it was around $23 or $24k CAD, including everything from the thermostat to the well, to taking out the old combo oil-electric furnace and its aged tank.
    To be fair, there were federal/provincial subsidies at the time, think maybe $30k ish CAD before the subsidies.
    That was 3-4 years though, not idea how the prices have changed since.

    It’s definitely on the expensive side to have installed, and not something a house flipper would do, but we saw it as an investment.
    The old oil furnace was on its last legs, the tank too.
    Geo is cheaper to run in the long run, has little/no maintenance, long lifespan, has the same efficiency no matter how cold it is outside.

    No smells, no refills, it just… works.

    For comparison,
    We used to burn through about 500L of fuel every winter, and that’s with using the oil furnace only on colder days.
    The resistive electric heating was doing the work on days hotter than -15C, so we had a hefty electric bill on top of that.

    The geo heatpump now costs about $600 or $700 to run, yearly.
    (Maybe half of that is because I like to run the main fan continuously to move the air around.)
    It also doubles as AC in the summer, which we didn’t have before, so it’s not an exact 1:1 comparison.

    Even on cold days (< -30C), the aux heat never kicks in and the house is at a toasty 22.5C pretty much 24/7 in winter, and a cool 24C in summer.
    The only time the aux heat is on is when I test it manually before the winter, just in case (and also to burn some of the dust on the elements)

    Sorry, I’m ranting now.