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Old 01-04-14, 11:10 PM   #109
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Originally Posted by Exeric View Post
Good point. If I had to dig the ground loop GSHP on a preexisting house as a retrofit in Mass I'd stick with Xringer's position. I'm 60 myself so I can identify with an ROI that may not be optimistic. I'm not the young buck AC is.
I live on the north side of a 200 foot hill that's made out of solid rock.
The soil here isn't very thick, and it's fill with boulders the size of VW Beatles..

Digging anything over 8 or 10 feet deep is going to require explosives.
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