This content was created by Derek Cole. This content was uploaded by Derek Cole. This is a podcast episode titled "What type of AC for new home?" (recorded 2017-10-10). It contains a single-speaker segment in which the speaker discusses HVAC options for new homes—recommending geothermal as the most efficient for new builds, and comparing multi-zone mini-splits, traditional heat pumps, and dual-fuel systems. The speaker focuses on budgeting and trade-offs (pay more up front for efficiency vs. paying more later in energy bills), suggests rolling system cost into a mortgage, and emphasizes matching the solution to a customer’s budget and target goals. The speaker also references advice from “Steve, my father.”
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Kind of depends on what you're building and what you're looking for. Now the most efficient way to go would be, in my opinion, geothermal. If you're building a new house and you have, you know, you don't have grass yet, it's obviously easier to do the wells and to do the loops and not cause any problems. And you can, with all of these, you can fold them into your house payment and becomes a lot better for you. So geothermal is really what I would recommend to start with. But it kind of, I mean you can go geothermal, you can go multi zone mini split, you can go traditional heat pump, you can go dual fuel. I mean there's, there's so many options. And really, Steve, my father has really said it the best. You know, if you, if you give me a target, I can hit it versus having this shotgun approach, right? I mean, what's in your budget? First of all, if it's in your budget to go high end and to go really efficient, let's do it. If it's in your budget to go standard basic, let's just get done, bare bones, minimum, then we can do that. But then again, you know, when you give us your budget, then we can see what you want, see what the budget is and then fit something into that mold. It's kind of obviously harder to go with the shotgun approach which was, you know, give you the most division. All right, we're going to give you the most division. I know my budget's right here. Okay, well let's come down to right here. But if we started with that, that would have been a little easier because then wouldn't waste your time when to waste our time. We could just talk a number. So I was talking to somebody recently and they said, you know, this number is like 10% of my home budget. I said, well you're dealing with an appliance that's half of your energy use every single month. So I've said it before, heating there, either pay for it now or pay for it later, but eventually going to pay for it. And some people say, what do you mean by that? Well, if you pay up front and you get a super efficient unit or an efficient install, then you'll save money. If you go with the cheaper unit or the low end equipment or the value based brand, then you'll pay for it every month in energy bill. So that's what I mean by hitting error is one of those. You don't pay for it now or pay for it later, you'll pay for up front. In this case up front and put it in your house. Payment and save money every month on lower energy bills or pay for later by going low end. Start with and then having higher energy bills every month. So.
