The older I get, the more I see things coming sort of full circle when it comes to life.
- There seems like just one big circle cycling through my life.
So many old things are suddenly new again. This is particularly true when it comes to our HVAC heating method. Recently, we just built a new house that has one floor and just two bedrooms. We’re in our early 70 so it’s time to simplify as much as we can. Our new home was a custom job that we helped design. And we chose a geothermal heat pump for our heating and cooling needs. This type of HVAC equipment actually uses the near constant temperature of the earth in order to extract energy for heating and cooling. It’s pretty fascinating as far as a heating and cooling unit goes. The other nice thing is that it lasts for nearly 40 years. So this heat pump will be the last one we have to put in. My wife and I also like the sustainability aspect as it’s just about the most efficient residential HVAC. However, it’s the HVAC heating that really blows my mind. With the geo heat pump, heating energy is transferred through radiant floor heating. That comes from copper pipes underneath the flooring. It takes me back to when I was a little boy and would visit my grandparents. They had a giant boiler in the basement that provided radiant heating throughout the house. It was the coziest heating I’ve ever experienced. And now all these years later, I’m experiencing that sort of cozy radiant heating once again. Like I said, it just seems like circles over and over in my life.