Beautiful house; the passive house standard is definitely the way of the future. Did you use any polyurethane in the home's insulation? We're currently building a passive house in Brussels, Belgium to showcase the benefit of polyurethanes in energy efficient housing.
One hair drier to heat the house is not a good example average hair dryer is 1600W on high.
According to passive house standards the heating dose not need to exceed 15 kWh/m² per year guess the house is about 120m² so total energy / year for the house need to be 1800kWh
But maybe there is a mild climate there and is fine.
Glad to see someone is building this houses it looks quite similar in design with the one I build some time ago.
Nice work! Do you have plans to track whether you're meeting the net zero goals? We live in Common Ground on Lopez Island -- also solar (PV + domestic hot water), passive solar architecture community land trust home. We've found 4 out 11 households were able to meet net zero goal so far (2 years now).
Beautiful house; the passive house standard is definitely the way of the future. Did you use any polyurethane in the home's insulation? We're currently building a passive house in Brussels, Belgium to showcase the benefit of polyurethanes in energy efficient housing.
PolyurethanesMedia 1 month ago
One hair drier to heat the house is not a good example average hair dryer is 1600W on high.
According to passive house standards the heating dose not need to exceed 15 kWh/m² per year guess the house is about 120m² so total energy / year for the house need to be 1800kWh
But maybe there is a mild climate there and is fine.
Glad to see someone is building this houses it looks quite similar in design with the one I build some time ago.
electrodacus 2 months ago
According to an article on ecohomemagazine it's only $160/sq.ft to build!
PhilippZ 4 months ago
Nice work! Do you have plans to track whether you're meeting the net zero goals? We live in Common Ground on Lopez Island -- also solar (PV + domestic hot water), passive solar architecture community land trust home. We've found 4 out 11 households were able to meet net zero goal so far (2 years now).
cgreacen 4 months ago
This is great! how many total square feet is the house?
garymclain 1 year ago
@garymclain
1300 Square feet according to a Yahoo article.
dashrirprock 5 months ago