Comments for Green Idea House

Comment on Tours Sold Out Fast! by Pamela B Perkins

Pamela B Perkins — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:39:01 +0000

Please remind of later dates

Comment on Tours Sold Out Fast! by Pamela B Perkins

Pamela B Perkins — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:36:37 +0000

Please remind me about later dates

Comment on Tours Sold Out Fast! by Robert

Robert — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:08:39 +0000

Hi Marsha, Thanks you for your interest in the tours. We wanted to make sure you were not disappointed if you came and could not get on a tour today. They sold out very quickly and for insurance and safety reasons, we have to limit the numbers on the tours. If you are still interested, please like our “green idea house” page on facebook and you will get early notice of future tours.

Comment on Tours Sold Out Fast! by David Aloisi

David Aloisi — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:12:20 +0000

See you Saturday

Comment on Tours Sold Out Fast! by David Aloisi

David Aloisi — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:10:22 +0000

PV teacher

Comment on Tours Sold Out Fast! by Marsha Majka

Marsha Majka — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:50 +0000

Please put me on the waitlist

Comment on In Hot Water Yesterday by Robert

Robert — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:54:06 +0000

Hi Greg,
I hope you and Louisa are enjoying the new house. Thanks for your inquiry.

I wish you could have been there. You would have enjoyed the dialogue. It is a bit hard to summarize Gary’s comments because he went from a policy and code level conversation to the details of how everything is to work together as a system in our house. Nonetheless, here are a few of the things we discussed during the tour:

- The house is a set of interconnected elements, with an objective of getting to net zero energy. The design of every part of the system needs to reflect that
- After the thermal envelope is sealed correctly, heat gains from the appliances, lighting and people need to be accounted for in the energy model. Gary is more concerned with overheating than not enough heat for our house. I have assured him that the thermal chimney would take care of any cooling needs.
- He generally liked the work on the plumbing and the baseboard radiant heating system we are installing. For the tubing that is coming through a chase and connecting to the heat pump hot water tanks, Gary recommended separating out the bundle and insulating some of the critical outgoing tubes. The contact with the other tubes in the bundle that are on the return side of the system lowers the temperature by conduction.
- Gary expected the Powerpipe drainwater heat recovery unit to pay for itself quickly as well as the pushbotton D’mand HW recirc system.

There was lots more and I’ll contact Gary and see if he has a moment to comment further.

Best,

Robert

Comment on In Hot Water Yesterday by Greg

Greg — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:46:44 +0000

Robert:

Can you share some of his comments or link to them

Thanks

Greg

Comment on Get a Free Test Loaner and Clear the Air re Electric Vehicles by Green Idea House

Green Idea House — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:29:43 +0000

We forgot to mention one of the best parts. In tracking the electricity used by the vehicle, the cost is about $7.00/ month!

Comment on Lumbering Along by gino

gino — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:23:50 +0000

This is a great use case. We don’t normally know that the items we buy/use are recycled. A cardboard box will typically have the reused content printed, and we can assume aluminum cans are, but it’s not something that we have to go out of our way to do.

This effort shows a great ‘conscious effort’ to make things happen. That is what probably needs to happen to get us to the next step of sustainability.

Great Job!