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Geothermal heating and cooling
A ground loop moves heat that is already sitting under your property instead of burning fuel to make more of it. Ohio licence #17082, and we will tell you honestly whether your lot suits one.
Chapter 01
What a ground loop actually does
Six feet down, the ground in Hancock County sits at roughly the same temperature all year, warmer than the winter air above it and cooler than the summer air. A geothermal system runs a closed loop of fused pipe through that soil, circulates a fluid through it, and uses that near-constant ground temperature as the starting point for heating or cooling the house, rather than starting from whatever the outdoor air happens to be doing that day.
That is the whole idea, and it is worth saying plainly because most of what gets sold as geothermal marketing skips straight to the savings pitch. The system is not creating heat out of nothing and it is not magic. It is borrowing a head start from the ground instead of paying for the whole temperature swing out of a gas flame or an electric strip.
An open ground-loop header trench in a back yard, fused loop lines manifolded together, spoil piles and stripped turf beside it
Not the geothermal your neighbour installed twenty years ago
The equipment and the loop materials have moved on. What we install today is more advanced and less costly to put in than the systems that gave geothermal its reputation for being expensive and finicky two decades ago. We are not going to put a number on that difference here, because it depends on the house, the loop field and the equipment tier, and any figure we quoted without seeing your property would be a guess dressed up as a fact.
What has not changed is that a geothermal system is still a bigger up-front project than a straight furnace swap. It earns a spot on this page because it is real work we do, licensed and inspected, not because it is the right call for every house in Findlay.
Chapter 03
Whether your property actually suits one
The loop field is the honest constraint. A horizontal loop needs enough open yard to trench, a vertical loop needs room for a drill rig and the budget that goes with it, and either way the soil itself, its moisture and how well it conducts heat, changes how much pipe the system needs to do its job. We walk the property before anyone commits to a number, because a loop sized wrong is a problem that is expensive to fix once it is buried.
We would rather tell a homeowner honestly that their lot is tight for a horizontal field, or that a vertical loop is the better fit, than sell a system against a yard that cannot support it and let the equipment underperform for the next twenty years.
Licensed for it
Ohio licence #17082 covers this work specifically, not just the furnace and AC side of the business. Bowers has been family-owned in Findlay since 1989, and geothermal sits alongside the residential, commercial and industrial equipment we already service under the same licence and the same crew.
If you are converting off an old furnace rather than replacing one that already failed, this is also the route we point people toward when the bills stop making sense for the size of the house. It is an energy-saving path, not just an emergency replacement.
Bowers Heating & Cooling, Licensed and insured. Ohio licence #17082. Call 419-423-8666.
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What is actually buried in the yard
A horizontal loop is a network of fused polyethylene pipe laid in trenches, usually four to six feet down, long enough that the total run gives the fluid inside it time to pick up or shed heat as it passes through the soil. A vertical loop does the same job in one or more deep bores instead of a wide trench field, which is the answer when the lot does not have the open ground a horizontal run needs. Either way, the pipe is a closed loop. Nothing is drawn out of the ground or discharged into it, and nothing about the loop field shows above grade once the turf grows back.
In plain words: it is buried pipe carrying fluid in a circle, using the ground like a battery that never runs flat, and once it is backfilled you would not know it was there.
And the honest version of “does my yard work”: it depends on how much open ground you have and what the soil underneath it actually is, which is exactly why we walk the property before we quote the loop rather than after.