[FLPERMACULTURE] Re: heating systems (Joel and Sarah Gagnon)

[Marty Hiller]

Hi, we have been happy with their work. Sorry to hear your experience  
went poorly.
- Marty

On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Kristie Snyder wrote:

> We are finally just finishing with some work being done by Perfomance  
> Systems Contracting, including a furnace replacement, and our  
> experience with them has not been good, for a variety of reasons,  
> which I'd be happy to discuss privately with anyone. Hopefully (maybe  
> in part as a result of my prolific complaining!), things will improve  
> in the future.
> -Kristie
>
>
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:10:49 -0400
>> From: Joel and Sarah Gagnon <joel.and.sarah.gagnon at lightlink.com>
>> Subject: Re: [FLPERMACULTURE] heating systems
>> To: fingerlakespermaculture at lists.mutualaid.org
>> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060731100303.022068e0 at pop.lightlink.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Charlotte already has a baseboard system in place. The advantage of  
>> the
>> MODUHEAT approach is in the initial installation. From what I  
>> understand,
>> they have prefabricated parts that speed the installation.
>>
>> To address the original question about heat pumps, I suggest  
>> consulting
>> with the folks at Performance Systems Contracting. They do  
>> installations of
>> ground-source heat pumps, and can in addition look at the overall  
>> energy
>> efficiency of the whole building as a system, identifying as result  
>> the
>> most cost-effective strategies for saving money and energy.
>>
>> Joel
>>
>> At 12:17 AM 7/31/06 -0400, you wrote:
>>> Dear Charlotte and others on permaculture.  Anybody with hydronic  
>>> heat,
>>> either baseboard or radiant should check out the new company in  
>>> Freeville,
>>> called MODUHEAT.  Started by an engineer at Cornell, they've  
>>> developed a
>>> 'modular' approach to heating hot water, and streaml;ined the  
>>> connections
>>> that usually take a lot of pipe in the basement to go to the  
>>> different
>>> heating zones in the house.   
>>> <http://www.moduheat.com>www.moduheat.com  C White
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <mailto:charwwill at gmail.com>Charlotte Williams
>>> To:
>>> <mailto: 
>>> fingerlakespermaculture at lists.mutualaid.org>fingerlakespermaculture at l 
>>> ists.mutualaid.org
>>>
>>> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:28 AM
>>> Subject: [FLPERMACULTURE] heating systems
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience, advice, or thoughts on  
>>> using a
>>> ground source heating system in this climate (ithaca)?  We currently  
>>> have
>>> a natural gas baseboard hydronic system. We really like the heat it  
>>> puts
>>> out, but the furnace will have to be replaced at some point. So we  
>>> are
>>> pondering what would be the most economically and ecologically  
>>> thoughtful
>>> replacement - a high efficiency natural gas furnace? Ground source  
>>> heat
>>> pump? Something else?
>>>
>>> We'd appreciate hearing your thoughts. Thanks.
>>> Charlotte
>>>
>>>
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