Prompt and efficient geothermal heat pump repair and replacement services in Toronto and GTA since 2000.
Prompt and efficient geothermal heat pump repair and replacement services in Toronto and GTA since 2000.
House Depot is a HRAI and TSSA accredited HVAC contractor, providing prompt and reliable geotheraml heating repair and replacement services in Toronto and GTA for over two decades.
If you’re experiencing problems with your geothermal heat pump system, no matter what type of system you use, our fully qualified technicians are ready to repair or replace your geothermal heating system.
Whether you’re replacing outdated equipment or building a new home, our qualified technicians will tailor a geothermal system for your unique situation.
House Depot is providing HVAC and electrical services to the following areas:
We service North York, Vaughan, City of Toronto, Richmond Hill, Mississauga, Brampton, Newmarket, Etobicoke.
We are HRAI and TSSA licensed HVAC contractor and we repair and replace all major makes and models of residential geothermal heat pumps.
Yes, we offer financing through Financeit for all HVAC systems including furnaces. You can purchase your new furnace with affordable monthly payments. Please check HVAC Financing for or contact us for more details.
Yes, we are fully licensed and insured. When you need it, we can provide a copy of our insurance.
The thermal energy of the Earth is captured using geothermal technology. In contrast to the summer and winter extremes of the ambient air above ground, the Earth’s temperature is nearly constant just a few feet below the surface.
More deeply underground, the temperature rises for every foot of depth. Some areas may experience higher temperatures and pockets of superheated water and steam that are much closer to the surface due to tectonic and volcanic activity.
In order to move heat in support of end uses like space heating, space cooling, and even water heating, a ground source heat pump makes use of the temperature difference that naturally exists between the above-ground air and the subsurface soil. A heat pump and several subterranean pipes make up a ground source or geothermal system. The pipes can be installed in vertical boreholes that go several hundred feet below earth or in horizontal trenches that are barely below the surface. To transfer heat from one location to another, the heat pump pumps a heat-conveying fluid, occasionally water, through the pipes.
Geothermal heat pump operates similarly to a conventional heat pump by capturing and transporting heat between interior and outdoors using high-pressure refrigerant. Geothermal systems use vast loops of underground pipe filled with liquid to transport heat.
Buildings can be heated and cooled using geothermal heat pumps, which take advantage of the earth’s relatively constant temperature. The temperature of the earth is 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit at a depth of just a few feet. In winter and summer, the temperature beneath the earth is higher than the air circling over it. A system with a significantly higher efficiency called Geo solar is sometimes created by combining solar heating with geothermal heat pumps. Earth energy systems, ground source heat pumps, Geo exchange, and earth-coupled are a few terms for geothermal heat pumps.
Geothermal heat pumps utilize this energy that exists below the surface of the earth to heat and cool buildings. Since the 1940s, geothermal heat pumps have been in operation. Instead, using the temperature of the outside air to heat homes and workplaces in the winter, geothermal heat pumps use the heat stored beneath the earth’s crust.
As heat is taken from the heat exchanger by the heat pump system and pumped into the indoor air delivery system during the winter, the heat beneath the earth is used as a medium to heat dwellings. In the summer, the procedure is reversed as the heat pump transfers heat from the inside air to the heat exchanger and the system releases the heat into the ground. In order to have hot water throughout the summer, the heat pump’s heat can also be used to heat water.
Yellow furnace burner flame must be blue. Flickering and yellow flames indicate that the ratio of fuel and air is incorrect and indicate a dangerous condition in which the furnace is producing poisonous carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, tasteless gas that causes death if inhaled for a long period of time. You should always have a CO detector installed around the furnace and inside your house to warn you when CO is detected.
The majority of closed-loop geothermal heat pumps circulate an antifreeze solution via a loop that is buried in the ground or submerged in water and is often made of high-density plastic-type tubing. Between the heat pump’s refrigerant and the antifreeze solution in the closed loop, a heat exchanger transports heat.
One kind of closed-loop system, known as direct exchange, pumps the refrigerant through copper tubing that is buried in the ground in either a horizontal or vertical orientation instead of using a heat exchanger. The optimal conditions for direct exchange systems are moist soils and a larger compressor; nevertheless, you should avoid placing them in soils that can corrode the copper tubing.
