LeTip Chester County East met at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Exton, PA on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Our showboater was Lonnie Cooper, our mortgage broker from The Rate Kings (www.theratekings.com). Lonnie provides excellent customer service and great rates, and he also has gifts for his customers once they close on their new or refinanced mortgage. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to ask any questions or start a mortgage application.

Our speaker was Scott Brown, our heating and air conditioning contractor from James Brown Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Scott showed us how geothermal systems work for both heating and cooling. He has a questionnaire that can help him determine which of his customers would be good candidates for geothermal installation. Scott loves geothermal systems but will not push them on a customer for whom it is not the best choice. A geothermal system involves an underground heat exchange (called the loop) and a heat pump inside the home. This means that there is no external air conditioning unit to care for outside the house. For either heating or cooling, the loop exchanges heat with the earth--picking up heat during the winter months and releasing heat during the summer months. The heated or cooled air then travels to air ducts in the house or radiant heating devices in the floors of the house. Contact Scott to determine whether you are a good candidate for geothermal heating and cooling; if you would be better suited to another type of system, he can give you the proper guidance and get started with the repair or installation that you need.