GERRY ON GEO

New system purchasers today are fortunate to have by-passed the industry's learning curves for the most part. Some manufacturers are training dealers by the score in sizing and installation techniques. Once relagated to a fringe technology, more of the large, well established HVAC installation companies have added geothermal systems to their product line up, illustrating a more mainstream acceptance of geothermal technology... What has been overlooked is the fact that most of our industry's trained HVAC technicians are gas fitters and/or air conditioning technicians, not heat pump trained people. Add to that fact that over the years, just to stay in busines the heat pump distributors have built their businesses by selling equipment to just about any trades company that was interested in selling equipment, i.e., plumbers, electricians, insulators, sheet metal mechanics, water softener installers, solar installers, etc.,and not necessarily HVAC firms. Distribution of heat pumps, quite..