This home is in the Fox Lakes area. It was a new construction were we did all the HVAC work. It is heated and cooled with a 5 ton forced air ECONAR geothermal heat pump.

This is the horizontal loop field being installed for the above house. Do to the room limitations it was done in halves (3 in this picture, 2 on the other side).

This is an old farm house in the country near Waterman, IL. We replaced a propane furnace with an ECONAR 5 ton Vara 2 plus Geothermal heat pump. The heating and cooling savings came to $2800/year compared to heating with LP. This is when considering $2.00/gal propane and 11 cents / KW-H electricity.

This is the horizontal loop field for the above house. The home owner rented a small excavator and dug this himself. We are happy to work with you if you would like to do some of the work yourself. The homeowner also ran the electric lines near to the heat pump. About half of the horizontal loop fields we have put in the home owner used his own excavator. It seems like a lot of people have an excavator in the family or know one. We are happy to work with you on this. But if you do not know anyone or don't want to do it yourself the excavator we use is very good and reasonably priced.

This is a new home in Byron, IL. We did all of the HVAC work for this home except for installing the Pex tubing in the basement floor for the floor heat. The home owner wanted to do that himself. This is a good example of a hydronic system. The Geothermal heat pump takes the heat from the ground and heats a tank of water (the 80 gal tank to the right). This hot water is then used to heat the house. A hydonic system is ideal for zoning and getting the heat exactly where you want it. This home has six zones (you can see the 6 pumps upper right). They include: The basement floor, bathroom floors, upper garage, lower garage, down stairs forced air and upstairs forced air. Each one of these has its own thermostat so it can be controlled separately. The geothermal system achieves air conditioning by chilling the water in the tank and distributing it to the air handlers. This geothermal system is different than the above ones in that it doesn't have a ground loop field. This is an open loop system were water is being pumped from the ground, heat is being removed or added to it and then the water is discarded.

This is a geothermal system in a new home near Mendota, IL. It is a 6 ton hydronic system also with six zones. This is a closed loop system were as the above one was an open loop system.

This is a custom control for the above geothermal system. Sometimes you cannot buy a control that will do exactly what you need. A Polar Bear Air is capable of making custom controls so your geothermal system will function to its upmost capabilities for your particular system design.

I did not get a ground loop picture for the above system but I did take this picture of the loops rolled up in balls going to the job site. I once had someone ask me at a gas station if what I had on the trailer was art work? I replied, "To me it is!".

This is the view from the back porch for the above home. I thought it was very appropriate to have this geothermal house next to a wind farm. This home is being heated and cooled from the earth and wind.

This is a new home in the country near Peru, IL. It is a prefab house (they make very nice homes this way now) so much of the duct work was already done. The home owner wanted to have heated floors in the basement and the garage so a hydronic geothermal system was the way to go.

This is the geothermal system for the above house. This is an open loop system that dumps the water back into a second well. The tank in the center of the picture is the main buffer tank for heating or cooling the house. The tank on the left is for the geothermal desuperheater for heating the domestic hot water.

This was one of the most complex and largest geothermal systems we have installed. It is a 10 ton closed loop hydronic system. It is in a new home near Huntley, IL were we did all of the HVAC work. The house has about 11,000 sq ft of living area that is shaped like a "U". Do to the size and shape the house was split up into quarters each with its own air handler. This is a good example on how versatile a hydronic system is. One geothermal heatpump supplies eleven zones. Do to the "U" shape one side of the house is 150 feet long. So the zoning was also split up, where the heat pump supplied a tank on each side of the house and a bank of zoning pumps worked off of each tank.

This is the loop field for the above geothermal system. Note the ten slinky loop circuits for the ten ton heat pump.

This is the pex floor heat for one section of the house (this was one zone). The total length of pex tubing used in this house was over one mile long.

This is another large 10 ton geothermal system we installed near Sycamore, IL. This though was a replacement for a propane boiler system. One interesting thing about this system was it supplies the main house but also an inlaw apartment above their garage. With 2011 utility rates ($2.00/gal propane and $0.11/KW-H electricity) they are saving about $3800 / year compared to what their gas boiler / furnace would cost to run.

This house is in the country near Cherry Valley, IL. This is an ECONAR Var 2 plus 7 ton unit that replaced a 90% propane furnace. It is an open loop system were the home's well already had enough capacity to handle the geothermal heat pump. So this reduced installation cost quite a bit. With 2011 utility cost they are saving about $4000 a year compared to burning propane. This is comparing it to a high efficiency gas furnace which is what they had before. Every time I have talked with the home owner he has been thrilled about the savings.

This loop field is near Pecatonica, IL. It is part of a 6 ton Vara 2 plus heat pump system. The interesting thing about this one is that we hit rock. At three to four feet it was loose lime stone. At four to five feet it was solid rock. My excavator is very good. He was able to get the hole down to five feet. An expert at IGSHPA told me that lime stone is a very good heat conductor. The system is working well but I wouldn't recommend purposely installing a horizontal loop field in rock.

This is an open loop geothermal system near Poplar Grove, IL. It has four zones. One zone for the garage, one for an air handler and two for the floors. It was installed to heat and cool a new addition for the customer's house. The main house has been heated and cooled by a geothermal system since the 1980s. Do you think they like geothermal?

This one is near Burlington, IL. It is an ECONAR ColdClimate unit. This is their new model. It has the advantage of not needing as large of a loop field per ton, has warmer output temperatures and it runs quieter.

This is the loop field for the above system. We put it in a pasture were sheep graze. The home owner probable never thought sheep would be grazing on top of his homes heat source.

This is half of a loop field for a large house in Prospect Heights, IL. The loop field had to be done in two parts do to its size and the restriction of the lot size we had to work with.

This is the house for the above loop field. It has a total of 13 tons of geothermal heating and cooling. There are two 5 ton units and one 3 ton unit.

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