Installing Geothermal In The Middle Of The Concrete Jungle
Sumple is president of CHW, LLC, in New Milford, Conn. When the new owner of a four-story townhouse located on the lower west side in the Chelsea section of Manhattan purchased the 2,400-square-foot building, he decided to completely gut and renovate his new home. He began researching heating and cooling systems on the Internet, and being both environmentally conscious and wanting an efficient system, he decided on a direct-access ground-source heat pump from ECR Technologies, Inc., Lakeland, Fla. The ECR Web site referred him to Sumple as the local area dealer.
According to Sumple, a direct-access heat pump had never before been installed in Manhattan. Since this was the first project of its type, it was a more difficult and time-consuming process to get the necessary permits. “There were additional questions that had to be answered to satisfy the building officials,” he said. After about a month, the permits were in hand.