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Originally Posted by SSLance
Do they do any geothermal heat pumps out that way or is it all gas or propane forced air heat?
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Yes they do -- and in fact -- they can be REQUIRED... depending on the size of the house etc. I'm not sure whether or not we'll have that requirement but we don't expect to.
We did have a discussion this week about SOLAR but solar is not really suited for the winter temps here... so it's only used as a "supplement" to the "sow melt" systems for driveways and walkways etc -- and these still require boilers.
Our house has no South or Southwest facing rooflines to install Solar on -- just due to the orientation of the rooflines - so we don't plan to use any.
The roofs on houses here are built so that the SNOW DOES NOT MELT..... weird because that means you have a big snow load on the roof.... but what they don't want is melting snow running all over and then it freezes and turns to ice -- so they construct the roof area to be COLD. Go figure.... but it makes sense once you're here.