The spring’s big surge of effort was put into siding the house. From the beginning we had it in mind that we wanted to work with fibre cement. We looked into other common forms of siding – wood, engineered wood, vinyl – but decided what we really wanted was the look of a quality material […]
Archive | May, 2016
Using Earth Energy to Preheat Ventilation Fresh Air Supply
By Anne de Gobeo on May 3, 2016 in Building, Ecogen energy, EcoGenBuild, Green Building, Passive House Build
I have taken a two-pronged approach this time: A short version, for those who are not interested in the technical aspects, and a much longer version for those who are. Short version: we built something to preheat the ventilation air for our house using the heat of the earth. It works and gives us lots […]