Good to hear back from you. Installing solar? I'm glad to know about the solar installation activity... always good news.

I think that you have an interesting project going on.

Please keep us posted as the project progresses (photos too!).

Regards,

-AC_Hacker

i got my geothermal pipe
3 700' rolls i also traded some diesel mechanic work for borrowing an excavator which is frickin sweet
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to my door cost was around $900 of which $290 was shipping

Wow! This is really great, whole lotta geothermal going on!

Keep the photos coming...

-AC_Hacker

Jeepers! Now you've got to dig a 2,100 foot trench!! ;)

Kinda makes me wonder, does anyone just dig a big wide loop in the ground,
and then lay out the pipe in a big gentle curve around the loop??
(Instead of the traditional slinky coils).?.

lol i have to dig 3 trenches around 90' long 3'wide and 6'deep

slinkey fab at night
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all rolled up so i can move it around
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my beautiful helper
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my pressure testing setup minus the 3/4'' barbs i forgot
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the blue and black fitting is a geo pipe to pvc compression coupling. i have no welds in my system

That's pretty neat, rolling the slinkys into big ball..
You might be able to get into the record books with one of those!
World's Largest Ball of Geothermal Pipe!
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Normally, those things take a bunch of people to manhandle them into their trenches.
A big ball you can roll, might make it easier eh?

No welds, huh? That's great! I had way too many welds (nearly 100) and the increased friction they caused effectively lengthened my total pipe length by about 30%... that's a lot.

Where did you come across the HDPE to PVC compression fitting?

How much was it?

I might use something like that where the HDPE comes into the basement..

Best,

-AC_Hacker

Compression Fittings : Couplings : Geothermal Supply Company : Couplings Compression Fittings

this is where i got everything from

well my water table is alot higher than it was before i hit water at 5' in the summer it was 7'
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would have been done 2 weeks ago but the trac hoe blew 3 hydraulic seals at 3 different times on weekends when no shops were open and ive been outta town installing solar in Miami going to work on it in the morning