Bond Plumbing & Heating provides top-quality heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) services to residential and commercial clients. The company offers a range of services, including the installation, repair, and maintenance of high-efficiency heat pump and mini-split systems. Their experienced technicians are well-versed in all aspects of HVAC systems, ensuring they can handle anything from routine maintenance to complex repairs with ease.
A high-efficiency heat pump system is an excellent option if you want to cut down on energy consumption in your home. Bond Plumbing & Heating recommends and installs several high-efficiency heat pumps like ductless mini-splits, air-source heat pumps, and geothermal heat pumps. These systems work by transferring heat instead of producing it, which reduces energy consumption and monthly utility bills. Similarly, mini-split systems are ideal for heating and cooling single rooms or specific zones in a home where ductwork isn’t feasible.
Overall, Bond Plumbing & Heating’s services help clients save money while ensuring efficient and effective HVAC systems.
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Solar heating for home is a sustainable and cost-effective way to heat your home using the power of the sun. It involves installing solar panels or collectors on your roof, which absorb the sun’s energy and convert it into heat. This heat is then used to provide space heating or hot water for your home, reducing your reliance on fossil fuels and lowering your energy bills.
Solar heating systems can be either passive or active. Passive systems rely on the natural flow of heat to circulate warm air through the home, while active systems use pumps and fans to move the heat more efficiently.
The cost of installing a solar heating system can vary depending on the size and complexity of the system, but the long-term savings on energy bills and reduced carbon footprint make it a worthwhile investment. Plus, many local and state governments offer incentives and tax credits for installing renewable energy systems, making it an even more attractive option for homeowners.
Valverde Energy can help with all your solar heating needs.
The size of the solar collectors suitable for your site will depend upon your hot water usage, but typically they will require between 32 and 64 square feet of mounting area. Collectors are usually mounted on the roof. Alternatives, such as ground mounting, or rack mounting on a wall are also sometimes possible.
Solar water heaters can also be used to provide space heating. The same set of solar collectors can be used to provide hot water for both space heating and domestic needs, although space heating will generally require a much greater collector area. Additional controls and heat exchangers are also needed.
New Mexico is a great environment for solar space heating because of our solar resource.
Valverde Energy’s can help you consider the pros and cons of various options. You should also make sure to carefully consider passive solar and other building efficiency measures that will reduce your heating loads to help you take maximum advantage of the available solar resource. Some customers will see a reduction of energy usage of as much as 90% in a very well insulated home with high energy consciousness, others may only see a 30% offset of traditional fuels in a poorly insulated structure. Remember that in New Mexico we have well over 300 solar days, so the object is to keep the energy gained daily in the home or business overnight.
Solar pool heaters work by circulating pool water directly through collectors and then rerouting the warmed water to the pool. System controllers sense when collectors are warmer than the pool water, and open valves diverting water from the pool circulator through the collectors and then back into the pool. The controller can be set to automatically keep the pool temperature anywhere between 65 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
This may sound contradictory, but in larger commercial applications solar cooling utilizes solar collectors connected to an absorption chiller as manufactured by Yasaki. Yasaki chillers are very reliable and have one moving part and have a long history of reliable operation (over 25 years). Valverde Energy staff has been certified and trained by Yasaki to install this type of system.
Closed loop systems use a heat-transfer fluid to collect heat and a heat exchanger to transfer the heat to household water. Active closed loop systems use electric pumps, valves, and controllers to circulate the heat-transfer fluid, usually a glycol-water antifreeze mixture, through the collectors. This glycol-water antifreeze mixture makes closed-loop glycol systems effective in areas subject to freezing weather. For this reason, closed loop systems are preferred for year round use in New Mexico.
Drain-back systems use water as the heat-transfer fluid within the collector loop. The water is forced through the collectors by a pump and then is drained by gravity to the storage tank and heat exchanger. Drain-back systems rely on full drainage of collectors to assure freeze-protection. These types of systems in New Mexico are very challenging to install and maintain due to the variations in architecture and extreme weather conditions.
Open loop systems heat and circulate household (potable) water directly in collectors prior to distribution in the household. This is the lower cost system but cannot be used in New Mexico climates due to freezing. Another type of open loop system is a batch heater that is simply a black tank filled with water and placed inside a south-facing, insulated, glazed box, or in the same envelope of the house where the batch heater absorbs solar energy. The tank may incorporate a selective surface that that absorbs sun well but inhibits radiant loss. In climates where freezing occurs, batch heaters must either be protected from freezing or drained for the winter. Batch heaters are inexpensive and have few components; therefore they require less maintenance and experience fewer failures. Open loop systems are good economical choices for seasonal applications such as summer cabins or in applications where they are designed into the building thus preventing any freeze or water damage issues.
