Building a house was as thrilling as I had hoped it was and yet it still held plenty of challenges that had to be overcome.
However, we really didn’t have the nightmare scenarios that so many of our friends warned us about. I can’t tell you how many horror stories I heard about building a house while inside the zone controlled HVAC at work alone. It’s like as soon as anyone I came in contact with found out that we were planning on building a house had something negative to add. This really didn’t deter either my wife nor I. Yet, all that feedback definitely put us on notice so we were extra vigilant about planning, preparation and execution. We kept a firm grip on the details so we didn’t miss anything. We even interviewed all the subcontractors. Since we were going with a rather unique HVAC unit, we also wanted to find the very best HVAC contractor we could get. The geothermal heat pump uses the near constant temperature of the earth to extract heating and cooling energy. It does this with a long tube filled with HVAC refrigerant that is buried underground. The installation of the geo heat pump is intricate and has to be done exactly right. It’s not something that just gets slapped onto the side of our home. Thankfully, we found just the right person to do the geothermal heat pump for us. The HVAC contractor we hired came in and did just an exemplary job of putting our heating and cooling equipment in our home.