Hi Cynthia,

When I looked into geothermal heating here some 10 years ago it was quite in its infancy with there not being many experienced people out there, its a lot more in use now I think. As far as I recall the method was quite straight forward if you didn’t mind digging a lot of shallow trenches in your land to lay the pipes which would gather the slight warmth in temperature from the land and then that would be used to to warm the house through the fairly constant gentle warmth of underfloor heating. Some friends of mine have installed such a system in their new build house and it also has some kind of fancy heat recovery system in the house that utilises the warmth all over again. I’ll make a visit and see how they are getting along and let you know. I know you can also gather heat from the air too, which doesn't involve digging up your garden.

Sound like you’ll have many wonderful explorations with your new home. :0)

With love
Lesley