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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2016 15:32:25 GMT
What I remember from Peter telling me about his house the first time is this:
He decided that to save money, it was not going to work if he stopped paying the mortgage, or his taxes, but his next biggest bill, energy, he could do something about.
As it is, his house is 3,800 SqFt and his energy bills are under two-hundred dollars a month (gas and electric).
Of course, in the process he ended up in this energy efficiency business professionally.
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Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2020 17:01:05 GMT
Recently, I visited Peter's house and I now have some more details. His SIP walls are R25 and his ceiling is R42. It also took him 3 years to get a building permit, and finally to build it in 2004. He has a beautiful hot water system and hydronic heating/cooling, with a central manifold, so you can control every leg from a central location. He now regrets having tried the hydronic cooling, for it is giving him a condensation problem. So he is ready to switch to an ASHP and I am working with him on that project. Meanwhile, based on the load calculations, he needs 4 tons for the whole house, which is about half of what my g/f in Stamford, CT needs for a similar size house, but of traditional stick construction.
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