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Blog: Passive House

Q & A on Passive House Appliances
We recently received a thoughtful email from prospective clients who have been giving energy efficiency and Passive House design some serious consideration; their primary concerns with such a well insulated and tight home is with ventilation of moisture, cooking smells, and excess...

Heat Your Home for $1.63 a week!
“Heat my home for $1.63 a week! Guaranteed comfort and warmth without a sweater in January?” That’s what I’m talkin’ about. With help from the United States Energy Information Administration, we’ve calculated projections related to the...

Passive House for Beginners
Martin Holladay strikes again! He most concisely and eloquently gives us a the basics of Passive House in this superb article.   Passivhaus For Beginners The History of a Superinsulation Standard Posted on May 27 by

Can I Afford Building Green
I want to share with you this letter we recently received from a reader. Her questions reflect those that we commonly hear about cost to build green. Please note, this is a Seattle based reader and costs for real estate will be...

Siding for the Jewel Box
I’ve been sorely remiss in posting about the beautiful little Jewel Box project; it’s hard to believe we have the garage nearly built and rolled the trusses on the main house this past week! It’s...

Another Cool Passive House
We’ve been so busy around here lately that I haven’t introduced you to another really fun project we have in the works, The JEWEL BOX-Freas Residence . This unpretentious mid-century modern Passive House sits on a low bluff overlooking Budd Inlet, in...

Passive House Makes Front Page News
We were on the front page of the Olympian a couple days ago with one of our current Passive House projects.Very nice article written by John Dodge, who was contacted by DT North, the homeowner! It’s very cool that the homeowners are...

Energy Performance Monitoring
Some of you are curious to know how our Passive Houses (PH) will perform over time and how accurate the PHPP modeling software really is for predicting continued performance. Well, we’re curious too… but, being so intrinsically aware of how the whole...

Humidity Control in a Passive House
We’ve recently received some great questions about humidity control in our Passive Houses, read on to see how we address this hot topic: What controls the humidity level inside a passive house? There are two types...

Comfortable Vaulted Rooms
We’ve had several inquiries during the recent Tour of Homes about the 17’ vaulted ceiling in our featured home. Mainly the question was about heat being captured in the vault leaving the lower areas cooler and less comfortable. Read on to learn about...

 
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