S&B Geothermal

Furniture and Things Home Center
Elk River, MN
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Project Information
One of the Upper Midwest region’s largest furniture showrooms, Furniture & Things in Elk River, MN also has the largest known slinky loop. What makes this showroom so unique, other than the 90,000 square feet of wall to wall furniture, is their state of the art heating and cooling with the ECONAR GeoSource line. Owner Larry Hickman stated that the savings were one of the main reasons he choose to go with geothermal. Although the initial cost was a bit higher, the payback on the system itself helped him make his final decision.

When they added on to the store, they made sure the heating and cooling system was another ECONAR ground source heat pump installation!.

 Physical Data
w 90,000 square feet,
w Built in 1996
w 100 slinky loops at 6 –8 feet deep & 60,000 feet of pipe (or 12 miles) total
w 10 ECONAR GeoSource Heat Pumps
w 100 Ton Total Capacity

Estimated Operating Costs
The estimated annual heating cost is $8,300 and the estimated cooling cost is $3,700. The electric rate for the geothermal system is .05 cents per KWH. The savings over a typical natural gas system is about 28 percent less and about 63 percent less than LP gas.
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w Mechanical & Earth LoopContractor – S & B Geothermal, Ham Lake, MN