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Hi all, excited to have an opportunity to join this community and thank you in advance. I am in the northeast, in zone 5. This question follows some advice I received from a green building centric contractor that also weighs practicality when thinking about building details, along with budget. Here it goes: 1.My project is […]
Hey all, I am building my first home (a small 600sqft timber frame) in Southern Vermont. I am leaving all my framing members exposed, because in my opinion that’s half the reason to build a timber frame (the beauty!!). My question is specifically for my roof. I am wrapping my roof with a 2x sprue […]
We have a new build and an ERV installed. The ERV runs constantly on a low speed and boosts when anyone is in the showers or in the kitchen when needed. The air conditioner is also variable speed. My question is as spring begins, the humidity in the home is rising a little higher than […]
For more than a century, housing reformers, architects, and technologists have looked to manufacturing as the model for improving construction. The logic is straightforward: If industrialization made cars, appliances, and consumer goods dramatically cheaper and more reliable, why wouldn’t the same approach work for housing? Brian Potter, of the Institute for Progress, recently published a […]
I am building a single-story 1600 sq ft passive home on a frost-protected shallow foundation in northern Ontario, Canada, in Climate Zone 4 and Growing Zone 4b. My HVAC design will include a Kerr Cold Climate Centrally Ducted Heat Pump with a Brink Flair HRV or ERV. Only two people will be living in the […]