Fix the Furnace project

Like lazareth, IT LIVES!!!  Geo System is up and running!

UPDATE: 2-9-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 2-6-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 2-2-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 2-1-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 1-26-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 1-23-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 1-19-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

Picture of our temp furnace  

UPDATE: 1-13-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 1-12-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 1-9-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 1-6-2011 Pictures of work that has been done

UPDATE: 1-4-2011 Jim Strandlund's technicians have brought in the new buffer tank and started to connect lines, according to Martin they should be done in 3 weeks.

UPDATE: Jim Strandlund says parts are arriving and he “hopes” to be at the church the first week of January.

CO2 readings at LLLC     CO2 guidelines

UPDATE: Held Special meeting December 12th. 2010 and Congregation approved hiring Jim Strandlund to repair our geothermal system and pay Steve Rufsholm $1000 for his work on removing the old system and doing the investigation into the old system that Jim used for his proposal.  Parts are arriving as of 12-28-2010.

Held special meeting on November 28th, 2010 to inform congregation of what we had found out and to recommend a solution.  After much discussion it was decided to table a vote until December 12th to do more research on solutions.

Middle of August 2010, we discovered that the heat pump systems fluid level was extremely low and had burned out multiple pumps and caused leaking in our PVC pipe system in the furnace room.  After bringing in a heating consultant (Steve Rufsholm) we decided the system  needed to be redone replacing a major part of the piping and pumps.  During our final look at it September 20th, we determined that we could replace over 15 pumps with hopefully 4-6.  Our first thing we will do is determine where our leak is in the system  We hope that it will be in one of the in floor loops and not in the field behind the church in the ground.   

9-22-2010 update:  Steve with help from Martin and Brian has basically gutted the existing piping and they are in the middle of planning out how to relocate and reinstall the piping.    One nice thing we found out is that the system is oversized so that if we ever expand the system will cover the heating and cooling needs.  Steve and Martin are also planning to leave stubs out of the system so that we possibly could use the system to heat and cool the Cornerstone building.

Interesting Facts:

Our field is comprised of 30 700' slinky loops of 3/4" piping for a total of 21000' of piping holding around 482 gallons of water.

We had approximately 15 pumps in our system.

We have a room above the copier area that house the air exchanges that blow hot and cold air through out most of the building.

We have another area located above the sound room that has a air exchanger in it also.

Here is the pictures of the "Current" system (click on them to see huge full size):

pumps feeding outside field     going up from field feed pumps  main manifold and pumps    above main manifold

front view of heat pumps and etc  buffer tank with pumps  east wall infloor

pipe runs to above air exchangers  infloor mainfold to offices and west end of building

Here are pictures after we did demolition on the old piping and etc...

close-up East Wall  Control box     West Wall

North Wall    South wall  East looking thru door