Edelweiss House / Discussions

...Edelweiss house are fully filled with 2x6s, and would have been much thicker if the structure were made out of 2x4s. Designs with higher levels of glazings are often 2x6 for this reason. The best is to drop the large windows and go for smaller openings, but the building site was just  begging for that sweet forest view...

...Edelweiss House. This page has a video about how to build passive solar homes,  where you can see how we raised the level of the slab with clean compactible fill, exactly as you would need to do. You could go with a footing and frost wall, but those can sometimes be trickier to insulate properly. We recently built a ne...

...Edelweiss House. Here are a few pages I would recommend as a starting place. What to look for in a home building lot How to build a passive solar home How to build a slab on grade Choosing the best home insulation That’s a start to a few pages that will at least help you get your head in the game to get an idea of wh...

...Edelweiss House rather than a standard 6 mil polyethylene vapour barrier partly because we already had an Air Barrier in place as you mentioned. For the ceiling we did use a 6-mil poly barrier, as building scientists don’t consider the ceiling to be as great a risk with the reversed vapour drive as walls. So you may be...

...Edelweiss House where we employed a very comprehensive passive heating and cooling strategy in our and we had different coatings on the north windows compared to the south. The south windows were a lower R-value, so they do lose more heat in the night, but the Low-E coating was chosen and applied in a way that they wou...

...house is now standing, it is the first house built of our new prefab modular kit houses available across Canada and the US. you can see a full break down of the mechanical systems, energy performance and total carbon footprint on this page here -  Zero Carbon Homes - The S1600 Prefab Eco Home is affordably Close There ...