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it also gives me a handy place to run wires and stuff
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this is a vapor barrier and an air barrier and i used this highefficiency tape and i went from eight hundred and twenty five air changes per hour at fifty pascals to two air changes per hour so seventy seven reduction
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that's the passive house
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so it's seventy two in that living room and it's sixty eight in that bedroom without any distribution ducts except for the hrv
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but the passive house community is also into less is more
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the vinyl siding was beginning to crack anyway and my wife hated the light blue
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it's just unhealthy
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you see all that four hundred and seventy five with retrofits
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and right here i have a gap of about a foot right now
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that becomes because it has a
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any other questions thank you so much for your attention
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do you all know about that this is a yearly conference that efficiency vermont puts on for building industry members builders architects et cetera at the sheraton in burlington in february
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so building ventilators fifteen more efficient than that but passive house is ninety more efficient than the rbes and than your vermont energy code and costs approximately fifteen more to make
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not my favorite house
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it loses it through conductance
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they say you can only spray it if it's eighty degrees and there's no dust and there's no moisture
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they do it in a factory laboratory and there it's possible
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and because i had him foam all the top plates and all the recess lights all that heat is staying in my house instead of going up and through my cellulose making it worthless
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now with the retrofits it's one air change per hour instead of six but i can't hit that
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one is a ventilation loss which is the air that you purposely bring into your house to bring fresh air into your house
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we have a wonderful environment for cooling in vermont because you have these 85degree days you have the 65degree nights and you just open up your windows and it cools your house off and you close them up in the daytime that's called night flushing and it really works here
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and the four hundred and thirty five is the energy we used to sustain them after they're built
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that's why we put our radiators under our windows on our outside walls
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it's not only windows
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high performance windows windows with a uvalue of sixteen or less with a high solar heat gain coefficient
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that is her heating her hot water her cooking her televisions her computers the xbox is for both of the children and lighting
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in boilers they wrap boilers in this stuff
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you're talking about this stuff
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so that's why we have heat recovery ventilation hrv and entropy recovery ventilation erv which also brings the humidity and keeps the humidity between the two places balanced
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and i don't focus on global warming in this presentation because although i personally think it's very important to cut down on our emissions of these gases it's not that important to the story
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i don't know if we have to introduce chris because he's got his credentials up there which is nice cause if they can memorize anything
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you can make something with all kinds of dormers and wings and everything
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oh xps is waterproof absolute malarkey anyone who's ever been to a beach and been on a floating deck and had to haul one of those floating decks that used eps as a float knows that that stuff gets waterlogged
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this is what i did to my joist
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i even like it now it's kind of cool
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when i'm doing my calculations i'd like to paint a rosy picture and say i'm expecting a five increase or a seven even historically at seventy five increase that brings my payback down to about seven years which is pretty good at that point
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you have a big house
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there's the two inches and around the windows i decided not to move the windows out to the outside plane i decided to leave them in personal choice
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that means that every hour and a half or hour and twenty minutes that fresh air has been blown in that cold fresh air has been blown through the gaps in your house
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here's the outside ambient air temperature
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you can write on a napkin what you want your house to look like
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okay now that's a good question
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so i want the thing to work well i don't care so much about the aesthetics
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that's my daughter helping me out
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sixty seven a month through the year
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now it's not heated to the seventy degrees you want in your house but some of these european systems are eighty five to ninety efficient which means that if i have a house and it's zero degrees outside and it's seven degrees inside my heat recovery ventilation system is bringing in cold fresh air at fifty eight to sixty degrees
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so when it's zero degrees outside and it's sixty eight or seventy degrees inside your house and it's blowing twenty two twelve miles per hour against your house if you have a house that's ach4 that means every fifteen minutes all of the air that your furnace had worked really hard to heat up has been blown out of your house and is now outside and you've got a whole bunch of new fresh freezing cold air in your house that your furnace has to heat
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yeah and something that the vermont green house alliance which is a trade group that's also got members from all different branches is working on is trying to push from the appraisal side to say look if you have a house that's really energy efficient there's a provision in the appraisal rules that say if it's really super efficient then it's not like any house on the market and you can call it a special case if you can label your house a special case then they have to bring in an expert in that case
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and then you have the real demon the infiltration loss and infiltration is the uncontrolled ventilation of your house through gaps in your house somewhere around the windows at the soffits at gaps where this sill plate sits on top of your foundation they're all over the place
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it's just a suitcasesized unit outside
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so what do i have to do so i took the class the chpc that's the certified passive house it's actually phc that's a spelling error is a certified passive house consultant test
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so i'm not replacing my windows
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i wanted thirty but twenty four is enough
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so they went through and they found the studs and they actually had to go and buy a 10inch screw even though it's only six inches of insulation because the eightinch screw was just not getting into the stud enough
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and that is directly attached to my band joist
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i'm just gonna live with the fact that i have these windows
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and that's what any good bpi it's building no it's been a long day
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and what you notice with all of these is what's being reduced in general is that red bit
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and what we see in this graph is us energy consumption by sector
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so if you're making the price up and you say i bought this house for two hundred thousand and i wanna sell it for two hundred and sixty thousand and then you get the audit and you know that it needs thirty thousand worth of work to really be energy efficient in a way that someone would be happy with it then you can just say okay i'm asking two hundred and ninety right it's that we're making these numbers up it's complete fiction
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those windows are designed for georgia where you wanna keep the heat the warmth of that heat from the sun out of your house
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i'm getting that fresh air in my house
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what do we get when we do all this we have a ninety reduction in heating and cooling compared to the vermont code
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you see it's got solar domestic hot water panels on the top
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my sorry hrv heat recovery ventilation
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i'm pretty sure it would be above freezing but i don't think we'd be there
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homasote is sound board
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so if we were to make this graph show it to where the actual limit is for safe air we'd be up by the ceiling
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that is a big deal
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you can still build a super energy efficient house
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you can do what i did which is rip the outside of the house out and add a whole bunch of insulation
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i sacrificed the extra square footage
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the heat pump was set at seventy two
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i don't wanna lull you all with my sonorous tones into too deep a stupor
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i'm saying expecting cause nobody has built a spec passive house
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in the last fifteen years we've had huge advances in building science and building energy science
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they poopooed passive house in the beginning and now they're always referencing it
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efficiency vermont is an amazing resource
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yeah and so the walls are fourinch walls
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sealed combustion means that you have a pipe that brings fresh air to the unit and then out the chimneys so you'll have a complete circuit that does not include the indoor air
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although i had a deep need to get up there and knock the bricks out but i decided that was a part of my mix
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this is in norwich
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it's like twenty years old it's called a heat recovery ventilation system
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it's one thousand and fifty square feet on the inside it's one thousand two hundred square feet on the outside just cause you have 16inch walls
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and the real estate people don't want it for reasons that i can't possibly fathom because it only gives them something to sell about the house
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now why do i have the other numbers here because it really depends on your sighting of the house and how much solar heat gain you get as to what you need
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cause i was like oh for seven thousand more dollars i could have had the best windows in the world
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so it's not just hanging there
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that means with a twenty two twelve mile per hour wind and zero degree air outside and sixty eight to seventy two degree air inside my house every seven minutes my furnace had to turn on to reheat the air that was just blown into my house
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so the first thing i did was get rid of the garage
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so you're just burning a lot more but who cares it's really cheap
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well if you have a house that uses one hundred and ten of the energy that normal house uses you have a special case and you can argue that to the bank and say look that was real estate agent
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so there's no point at which this piece of wood that is then sticking out is going directly to the wood that's in my ceiling causing that thermal bridge and allowing heat to escape that way
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when i first moved there i said i've been living in a house that always had natural gas cause i lived in a city and i didn't really feel like heating with wood and then i got the oil bill because i used a tank a month and i was like wait a second
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i was heating the outside literally
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i decided that i was going to turn my chimney into a sealed combustion
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the strapping is on there because when we do all this work we actually wanna have a plane for drying
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it costs me seventy thousand to do this work and i wasn't paying myself for my time
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oh no did you just say that to us i did
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so even people don't like it are talking about passive house oh that passive house there's even a group who decided to call their thing an active house which is beautiful right on because you're pushing against passive house wonderful