CREATESPACE GEOJERRY'S DIY Geothermal Heat Pump Horizontal Earth Loop Installation Instructions: Volume 1

Do It Yourself installation instructions for installing a geothermal heat pump's horizontal earth loop. Ten years ago geojerry learned about the problems that contractors have with installing geothermal heat pumps and is trying to educate the potential geothermal customer so they can get a correctly sized, designed, and installed geothermal heat pump system. Here are the chapters in the book; Page 9 Chapter One Be Smart And Do Not Guess What Size Earth Loop You Need Page 12 Chapter Two Horizontal Loop Location And Layout Page 17 Chapter Three Horizontal Loop Trench Excavation Page 23 Chapter Four Installing A Slinky Earth Loop Page 29 Chapter Five Installing The Earth Loop Soaker Line Page 31 Chapter Six Basement Wall Penetration Page 34 Chapter Seven Earth Loop Floor Or Slab Penetration Page 40 Chapter Eight Installing Earth Loop Manifolds Inside The Basement Page 45 Chapter Nine Pressure Testing For Leaks Page 49 Chapter Ten Backfilling The Trenches Page 52 Chapter Eleven Connecting Your Earth Loop Manifolds To Your Circulating Pump/s Or Flow Center AND To Your Geothermal Heat Pump Page 56 Chapter Twelve How To Flush And Fill Your Earth Loop And Add Propylene Glycol Antifreeze To It Page 63 Chapter Thirteen How To Pressurize Your Earth Loop Page 70 Chapter Fourteen How To Calculate The Energy Efficiency Of Your Geothermal Heat Pump… Calculating The COP And The EER Of Your Geothermal Heat Pump This book does not tell the DIY customer how to size and/or design the horizontal earth loop, but it has the information needed to get their horizontal earth loop correctly installed. It has instructions for the installation of one pipe per trench earth loop or a slinky earth loop. Geojerry has sized and designed thousands of earth loops for geothermal heat pump systems and you can get your complete system sized and designed at geojerry.com