Geothermal HVAC Services

Even with the varying temperatures, Jones Heating & Air provides quality geothermal HVAC services for your use all year round in Central Arkansas. We offer geothermal system installations to provide both cooling and heating. This technology uses earth loops to provide free energy from the ground.

Our geothermal HVAC systems can heat and cool your entire house for a fraction of what a traditional unit can. To heat, the system extracts warmth from the ground and distributes it throughout the system to provide quick heating. To cool the home, the system reverses the heating process, allowing air conditioning to flow throughout. The geothermal technology is efficient and cheaper to operate than other traditional heating and air conditioning systems. It’s also quieter, safer, cleaner, and more reliable.

What Are Geothermal Heat Pumps?

No matter what climate you live in, the temperature throughout the year varies. For some climates that means blazing summers that cool to frigid winters. What many people don't realize is that the temperature below ground (regardless of climate or season) stays fairly consistent all year.

The ground is able to maintain a higher rate of temperature consistency because it absorbs 47% of the suns energy (heat) as it hits the Earth's surface. Geothermal (also called ground source) systems are able to tap into this free energy with an earth loop. This technology is then used to provide your home or office with central heating and cooling.

Red Truck — Benton, AR — Jones Heating & Air

Diagram of a house using

Geothermal heat pumps.

Slinky Loops for Geothermal Heat Pump — Benton, AR — Jones Heating & Air

Laying slinky loops in the ground

for a Geothermal heat pump.

How A Geothermal Heat Pump Works

Heating

During the heating cycle, a geothermal system uses a series of pipes to extract heat from the ground. As the system pulls heat from the loop it distributes it through a conventional duct system as warm air. The same heat energy can also be used for a radiant floor system and domestic hot water heating.

Cooling

In the cooling mode, a geothermal system air conditions your home by reversing the heating process. Instead of extracting heat from the ground, it is extracted from your home and either moved back into the earth loop, or used to preheat the water in your hot water tank. Once the heat is removed from the air, it is distributed through the duct system in your home.

Geothermal System Benefits

Lower Operating Cost

A geothermal system operates more efficiently than other heating and cooling systems because they can deliver four units of energy for every one unit of electrical energy used. That translates into an efficiency rating of 400%, compared to the most efficient gas furnace, which rates 94%.

Enhanced Comfort

During heating you'll experience warm air without the hot blasts associated with ordinary gas furnaces. Compared to an air source heat pump, the air is warmer from a geothermal system. For ultimate comfort, a zoning system can be added using multiple thermostats to precisely control temperatures in various zones.

Safe

Because natural gas, propane or oil are not required to operate a geothermal unit, there's no combustion, flames or fumes and no chance of carbon-monoxide poisoning.