One of the best things about hydronic heating systems is that it’s easy to integrate some method of domestic water heating. This combination has been used for decades in systems where a boiler was the sole heat source. It’s also possible when a heat pump serves as the heat source.
This month we’ll look at a unique system that was built to provide space heating, cooling and domestic hot water for a low-energy use house while leveraging the operating characteristics of a water-to-water geothermal heat pump.