Installing Geothermal can be a mess. In my case, they are drilling 18 - 250 ft deep holes in my drive way area. The holes are about 6 inches in diameter. So, imagine how much material comes up when you have a 250 ft x 6 in hole. For those that have never seen this done, they use a big portable rig on a truck that looks like.....
To get a sense of the mess from materials pulled out of the ground, our yard and driveway now have mud all over them. This is the Driveway....
This is the yard just below the driveway....
Once they drill a hole, the put down pipe. The pipe looks like this.....
If you look carefully just to the left of the picture, you can see a plastic return for the water loop. These use to be installed in the field, but now come out of the factory fully tested so that there is less chance of a leek occurring through field installation.
The pipes are fed into a drilled hole and basically look like this once done...
They then scoop as much mud as they can down the hole, and in some cases inject a gunite like material, so it looks like this....
Once they put all the pipes in, they will clean up the residual mud, then sometime this week they will backhoe a channel through the drive way (5 ft deep) to run all the wells back to a header section that will then feed back into the house.
