As we mention on our house signage, we have no furnace… But we still do have a little bit of heating need, and have been considering a couple of ideas of how to meet that need. Its looking like the system we’re going to use are a couple of simple in-wall Cadet heaters. This was the original plan which we abandoned for a while in favor of a mini split heat pump system, and now that we’re needing to actually specify a system in order to get electrical in place for it we are going back to the Cadet heaters. Read the rest of this entry »
Updates
Passive House in the News
This week there was a rather prominent story about efficient housing. The Willamette Week’s cover story “Futurehous” is all about the Passive House standard. And more specifically about Root Design Build’s passive house that they are building this summer in Hood River. There is a small but somewhat obsessed Passive House community in Portland, Root’s house in Hood river is likely going to be the first completed in the region followed by another five or six in the next couple years with ours potentially being one of them. Read the rest of this entry »
