tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63759276239124436082024-03-05T00:45:10.001-05:00Pretty Good Lake House
A blog about the building of an energy-efficient house.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-62997221925380889402021-01-22T18:41:00.002-05:002021-01-22T18:41:22.979-05:00Heat pump failed<p> Just as the winter set in, my heat pump failed.<br /><br />The HVAC technician who came to diagnose it found a leak in the coils of the air-handler (interior) unit. Sadly I don't believe I have any documentation or a warranty.<br /><br />Of course, when it failed I plugged in a space heater and somewhat to my surprise this single space heater has managed to heat the entire house all winter. In fact, if the outdoor temps get up to the mid 40s I often wind up turning the space heater off for a few hours. It has been a mild winter, with nighttime temps rarely dropping below 15°F.</p><p>I measured the power consumption of the space heater and it's drawing 1100 watts. My aquarium draws another 300 watts averaged over the course of the day.</p><p>Overall, a nice testament to the energy efficiency of the house.<br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTHWplGdS1aTULWQYqS43MKlgvTRfL0xauFg51feKawN5yjvMr3Rq6VRWVQLy7Hf7aRvRAb0tMNqqwS0BeaoGmWl7lfvnW2b68KWBJ3g9RXCp61L8s5mJGvyamb0vzmdhnYGCykbxVBVr/s2736/PXL_20210122_233848617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="2372" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTHWplGdS1aTULWQYqS43MKlgvTRfL0xauFg51feKawN5yjvMr3Rq6VRWVQLy7Hf7aRvRAb0tMNqqwS0BeaoGmWl7lfvnW2b68KWBJ3g9RXCp61L8s5mJGvyamb0vzmdhnYGCykbxVBVr/s320/PXL_20210122_233848617.jpg" /></a></div><br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-38720884681458738552017-08-03T11:38:00.003-04:002017-08-03T11:38:50.143-04:00Update and Things I Wish I'd Done Differently<div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
A blog reader recently asked me to about the performance of the house now that it's a couple years post-occupancy so rather than answering him directly, I figured it's about time (OK, way past time) to post an update.</div>
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The short answer is that I'm very pleased with the performance of the house. I can walk around the place in jeans and a t-shirt on even the coldest winter day. There's never a draft, even when the winds come howling off the lake and hit the house straight on. And the snow lingers on my roof long after it's melted off every other roof in the neighborhood.</div>
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I'm using about 1000 kWh of electricity per month which might seem high for a energy efficient 1500 sq. ft. house, but around 250 kWh is used just to run the dehumidifier in the unfinished basement. Without that the humidity in the basement would quickly rise to levels where mildew would start to grow. It's a bit galling that so much of my energy budget goes toward this one function.</div>
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My other energy hog is a large saltwater aquarium system that consumes about 300 kWh of electricity per month. We all have our vices.</div>
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My heating calculations seemed to have been accurate enough as the small Fujitsu heat-pump I selected has been able to keep the house warm even on the coldest nights. The first winter I was in the house we had some long stretches of brutally cold weather with nights going down to -10 °F and days only going up to 0. During those nights the house would go down to about 60 °F - perfectly acceptable.</div>
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During the summer the heat-pump has more than enough power to keep the house cool, but I did make a mistake in not including a ducting system of some sort to bring the cool air up to the upstairs bedroom. This is not a problem in the winter as warm air naturally rises but in the summer it gets quite warm upstairs. I had hoped that the air-to-air heat exchange system would suffice for that but it doesn't come close.</div>
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The main thing I would differently is that I wouldn't worry so much about energy efficiency! I got so caught up in energy efficiency that I completely dismissed the idea of a woodstove - a decision I now seriously regret. I'm trying to figure out how I might retrofit one in, but it's tough when you don't design it in in the first place. In the same vein, I wish I had more operable windows on the lake side of the house to let in the sounds of the outdoors during nice weather.</div>
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Construction-wise I would strongly consider cellulose-filled double-wall construction rather than covering the house with polyisocyanurate panels, primarily because of the cost. And stacking the roof with polyiso panels means lots of very long screws being driven through the roof sandwich searching for rafters, with the potential that many may miss their target. Plus it definitely complicates putting solar panels on a roof as most solar panel systems are designed to be bolted to the rafters.</div>
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I now wish I had gone with a cold roof system where there is an outside air gap between the roof itself and the insulated exterior of the building envelope. If there's a problem with a hot roof and water somehow gets into the insulation, it's difficult for the insulation to dry out. With a cold roof, any water that gets past the shingles winds up in the air gap where it can easily evaporate come dryer weather.</div>
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Another thing I would like to fix is the damper system on the exhaust hood for the stovetop. Sometimes when it's windy I can hear it opening and closing just from the wind. It's a straight open path for air to escape the house. Plus the hood itself is metal attached to a metal duct that extends to the outdoors so it's a pretty bad thermal short circuit. Because it does need to be fireproof the whole way there aren't a lot of solutions. </div>
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-36054605925438342952015-01-23T00:55:00.000-05:002015-01-24T12:48:58.585-05:00Heat pump dryerWhirlpool announced it back in July, I was able to order it in October and it wasn't delivered until yesterday (January 21), but I now own a real live, made for the U.S. market, heat pump clothes dryer. It's officially the Whirlpool <a href="http://laundry.reviewed.com/content/whirlpool-duet-wed99hedw-heat-pump-dryer-review" target="_blank">HybridCare™ Duet Dryer with Heat Pump Technology</a>. <br />
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Heat pump clothes dryers have been available for many years in Europe but this dryer and another recently announced from <a href="http://laundry.reviewed.com/content/lg-dlhx4072w-heat-pump-dryer-review" target="_blank">LG</a> are the first to hit the U.S. market. I chose the Whirlpool over the LG primarily because the LG, for some reason, still has a vent to the outdoors. One of the major advantages of incorporating a heat pump into a clothes dryer is that the dryer can be ventless. For a tight building enclosure that means one fewer penetration to be sealed. It also means that the dryer isn't taking conditioned air from the living space and venting it to the outdoors.</div>
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I ran a medium-large load tonight using the most efficient cycle and, well, it worked. It didn't seem to take terribly long (although I didn't time it) and the clothes came out not just dry but quite soft and with fewer wrinkles than the laundry from the last dryer I owned. In fact, the towels came out positively luxuriously soft. It is a bit louder than your typical dryer though - something to keep in mind if you're dryer isn't in an acoustically isolated area of your house.</div>
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The real downside to the dryer is the cost. I got it from ajmadison.com for $1399 with free shipping. That's a lot for a dryer. Of course, I'll save money every time I run a load, compared to a traditional dryer, right? To figure out how much I created this <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WgkVxct7YJUDmYs2qIM_Jhua0T6hHJp17h7tEbiP1eg/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">spreadsheet</a>. It takes into account the amount of energy each dryer requires to run, the amount of energy a mini-split heating system would use to heat/cool the makeup air (for a venting dryer) and the fact that all of the energy used to run a heat-pump dryer stays in the house. This latter effect is a significant savings in the heating season and a significant cost in the cooling season.<br />
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<tr><td>traditional gas dryer:</td><td style="text-align: center;">39¢</td><td style="text-align: center;">38¢</td></tr>
<tr><td>heat pump electric dryer:</td><td style="text-align: center;">17¢</td><td style="text-align: center;">33¢</td></tr>
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For a family that does 5 loads of drying a week, that's a savings of $1.90 per week during the winter and $1.00 per week during the summer for a heat-pump dryer vs. a traditional electric. Averaged out that comes to a savings of about $75 per year, which would bring the total lifetime cost of a heat pump dryer much closer to the cost of a traditional dryer. But unless you live in a very cold climate or dry an excessive amount of laundry, a heat-pump dryer, at today's prices, is unlikely to save you a lot of money. If prices come down, or if the price of energy goes up, that could change.<br />
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While the cost may or may not be an issue, one great feature of this dryer that could turn it into a mainstream product is how much gentler it is on your clothes. Because it's not using heat alone to dry the clothes, it doesn't heat the air as much as a traditional dryer. Not only will clothes last longer but it might make it possible to dry clothes that you would otherwise need to hang dry.</div>
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A traditional dryer works by heating air, blowing it into the drum chamber, where it absorbs moisture from the clothes, and then exhausting the now moisture-laden hot air out of the dryer and out of the house. A <i>condensing dryer</i>, on the other hand, works by heating air, blowing it into the drum chamber and then pulling that warm moist air from the drum and cooling it to the point that the moisture condenses and drips into a collection tray. The cool dry air is then heated and recirculated back into the drum where it again picks up moisture and the cycle continues.</div>
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The tricky thing with a condensing dryer is how to cool the air being pulled from the drum. Some condensing dryers use a metal plate that is air-cooled and some use a scheme that requires a steady supply of cold water. Neither of these systems results in a dryer that is any more energy-efficient than a traditional dryer and they are <i>much </i>slower. The market for condensing dryers has typically been apartment buildings where running an exhaust vent isn't feasible.</div>
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A heat-pump dryer is a kind of condensing dryer. Like pretty much every heat pump device, the heat pump in a heat pump dryer has a set of cold coils and a set of hot coils. This works out perfectly for a condensing dryer as the cold coils can be used to cool the warm moist air coming from the drum and the hot coils can be used to heat the air before sending it back. Heat pump dryers use 40% to 50% as much electricity as a traditional electric dryer and dry clothes much faster than condensing dryers that don't use heat pumps, but still slower than a traditional dryer.</div>
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-83784134002456084802014-11-22T12:57:00.004-05:002014-11-22T13:14:49.396-05:00Moved inWell, I still have a dumpster in my driveway, no kick-plates on my kitchen cabinets, lots of unfinished trim, no screens on the screen porch and a zillion other little things but the house is done enough that I was finally able to get my occupancy permit and move in!<br />
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In the pic above you can see the outdoor part of the mini-split heat pump.<br />
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On the right in the photo above you can see the intake and exhaust for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation" target="_blank">HRV</a>.<br />
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You can spend a fortune on lighting fixtures. These pendants about the island were $14.99 from IKEA.<br />
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The wall-to-wall carpet in the bedroom is <a href="http://www.mohawkflooring.com/flooring/carpet/everstrand.aspx" target="_blank">Mohawk Everstrand</a>, a product made from recycled plastic bottles. It's not the absolute softest carpeting one can buy but it's pretty darn soft. Mohawk claims they recycle 14,000 plastic bottles every minute making this carpeting!<br />
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Installed the kitchen myself - which is why the kick-plates have yet to be installed. Total cost of the kitchen was about $7000 not including my labor. $4000 more for appliances. If you've ever built a kitchen you'll know how inexpensive that is. I can't say enough about IKEA cabinets. Solid, well engineered and remarkably inexpensive. Of course, you have to install them yourself. Pretty easy to do until you get to the island where some intermediate carpentry skills come in handy.<br />
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The refrigerator is <a href="http://www.summitappliance.com/catalog/model/FFBF285SS" target="_blank">this one</a> from Summit Appliance. It's not huge but it's counter depth, very well laid out and very quiet.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.sears.com/kenmore-elite-6.1-cu-ft-freestanding-induction-range/p-02295073000P?pageInd=product&currentProductTitle=kenmore-elite-6%2e1-cu-ft-freestanding-induction-range&isSEOCanonURL=true&catgroupId=02295073000P&catalogId=12605&redirectType=SRDT&isSEOUri=true&storeId=10153&partNumber=02295073000P&reqURI=%2fshc%2fs%2fkenmore-elite-6%2e1-cu-ft-freestanding-induction-range%2fp-02295073000P" target="_blank">range</a> is from Sears. It's an electric induction range which so far seems to be working great. I do have to buy new pots and pans as my old stuff was aluminum which doesn't work with induction.<br />
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In the picture above you can see where fresh air comes into the house just above the heat pump unit. The idea here is that the cool fresh air will mix with the warm air from the heat pump unit preventing a cool draft from the fresh air vent. So far it seems to be working well.<br />
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The heat pump is the <a href="http://www.fujitsugeneral.com/wallmountedRLS2.htm" target="_blank">smallest available</a> from Fujitsu that has managed to keep the house comfortable on some 25° F nights we've had recently, even though I'm running the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation" target="_blank">HRV</a> on high. I plan on running the HRV on high for the first year or so to keep the indoor air quality high during the period of highest out-gassing of any of the finish materials or new furniture.<br />
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And that big empty spot below the heat pump - that's where the aquarium is going to go!<br />
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I will continue to post on this blog to report on how the house is performing as well as to fill in some details that I never got around to discussing, so keep checking back.<br />
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There's still plenty to do in the interior but April and May are the best months for putting in a new lawn and planting shrubs. The whole yard is just dirt at this point from all the trucks and machines rolling over it these past few months. While in some ways, I hate to plant a big lawn that'll need to be mowed every week, it's important to stabilize the soil so that the rain doesn't erode it all away into the lake. In fact, the building inspector won't issue a certificate of occupancy until the site is stabilized against erosion.</div>
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My landscaping plan calls for reducing the grade of the back yard by building a retaining wall several feet back from the lake. This should give me a more usable back yard, slow down the rain runoff as it moves toward the lake, and create a border between the wild growth by the lake's edge and the lawn area.</div>
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I hired Ed Coykendall and his company <a href="http://www.landartma.com/" target="_blank">Landscape Artisans</a>, to do the work.</div>
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To complete the insulation, we first sprayed a layer of closed cell foam on the basement ceiling. Closed cell is quite a bit more expensive than open cell but the basement is outside the thermal envelope of the house and the closed cell foam will provide the air barrier. We hired a company called Green Cocoon to do the work.</div>
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After installing the foam, we added batts of Roxul mineral wool for a big boost to the R-value at a relatively low cost. The Roxul also provides fire resistance, which otherwise would have had to be provided by spraying a fire resistant coating onto the closed cell foam. The coating actually costs way more than the Roxul but provides no additional insulation.</div>
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Prestained knotty pine arrives from Duragroove. Two palettes remain in the picture below but there was a third one when we started. The boards are all 16 feet long and since I couldn't find my extended fork lift we had to unload it all by hand.<br />
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In the picture below you can see the indoor unit for the heating/AC system. That one unit is supposed to be able to heat the entire house. Above it you can see the vent from which fresh air will come into the house. Since that air will be colder (in the winter) than the air in the house, putting the vent above the heating unit will hopefully temper any cool breeze from the fresh air vent.</div>
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-91076339524924097152014-01-26T19:24:00.000-05:002014-01-28T10:30:32.782-05:00Midwinter UpdateHere's a current picture of the house:<br />
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There's a front porch now, the roof has been shingled, the windows and eaves have been trimmed out and most of the siding has been installed.</div>
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The siding is cedar with a factory applied coat of <a href="http://www.deckstainhelp.com/defy-extreme-stain-review/" target="_blank">Defy Extreme Stain</a> in <a href="http://www.defystain.com/defy-extreme-stain.html" target="_blank">light walnut</a>. It'll need a second coat in the spring and hopefully only every 5 years or so after that.</div>
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The trim is a composite called <a href="http://www.boralamerica.com/trim/truexterior-trim/truexterior-trim/trim01" target="_blank">Boral TruExterior Trim</a>. It's a polymer composite with fly-ash filler that won't rot, takes paint well and is very dimensionally stable. The crew said that it worked like wood and was much easier to deal with than PVC trim. All the trim will get painted a medium brown in the spring.</div>
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The roof shingles are <a href="http://www.gaf.com/Roofing/Residential/Products/Shingles/Designer/Camelot_II" target="_blank">GAF Camelot II</a> shingles in Barkwood. This was an upgrade over the standard 30-year architectural shingles. They're heavier, have a longer warranty and, of course, cost more. What I didn't know when I opted for them, was that they are significantly more complicated to install. They're too heavy to weave together in the valleys so painted metal flashing is required instead. But what really threw the crew for a loop was that rather than every shingle being identical there are about 10 different shingles that need to be applied in a particular pattern.</div>
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-85573569597811403372013-11-15T00:10:00.000-05:002013-11-24T20:54:32.019-05:00Heat loss calculationI'll be using a ductless mini-split <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump" target="_blank">heat pump</a> to heat the house. A heat pump is a device that moves heat from a colder area to a warmer area, just the opposite of the way heat flows naturally. An air conditioner is a heat pump as it takes heat from a cooler area (inside your house) and moves it to a warmer area (the outdoors). If you've ever stood outside next to an air conditioner, you've probably felt the hot air exhaust. That's the heat it pulled out of the indoor space.<br />
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Now imagine you took one of those air conditioners that sits in a window and instead of taking it out in the winter and storing it in the basement, you just turn it around in the window so that the hot exhaust air blows <i>into </i>your house. Well, now you'd be using your <strike>air conditioner</strike> heat pump to heat your house. Please don't actually try this as window air conditioners are not designed to work in that situation but with a little tweaking manufacturers have, in fact, made heat pumps that work quite well for heating.</div>
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Modern heat pumps are more like central air conditioning systems where the compressor and the blower are split such that the compressor sits outside the house and the blower is inside, with tubing running between them. A very nice bonus is that these units are designed so that with just the flip of a switch they can run backwards and cool the house in the summer.</div>
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To decide what size heat pump I'll need, I first need to calculate the rate at which heat leaves the house. I'm not going to go into all the details of how that's done but here's <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar9eD6F8Yno8dGpKVTZwSE1YdVc1NlFZWDZhcGpIM0E&usp=sharing" target="_blank">a link to the spreadsheet</a> that I built to do the calculation. It's worth a look if you're at all interested in the details.</div>
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The calculation showed that it will require about 12,000 BTUs of heat per hour to keep the house at 72°F when it's 0°F outside. To put that in perspective, that about the amount of heat that two 1500 watt space heaters generate (12,000 BTUs per hour = 3512 watts). So, in theory, a couple of portable space heaters will be able to heat the whole house on a <i>really frigid day</i>.</div>
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So why not just buy a couple of cheap space heaters to heat the house? Well, space heaters work by directly converting electrical energy into heat energy. So a 1500 watt space heater requires 1500 watts of electricity to generate 1500 watts of heat. A heat pump, on the other hand, uses electricity to <i>move heat</i> from outside to inside and it turns out that a modern heat pump only requires about 500 watts of electricity to move 1500 watts of heat into your house. So using a heat pump I'll be able to heat the house for a third of what it would cost to heat it with space heaters (aka resistance heaters).</div>
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The upshot of all this is that I'm going to try to get by with a single small heat pump, specifically the <a href="http://www.fujitsugeneral.com/wallmountedRLS2.htm" target="_blank">Fujitsu High SEER 9RLS2</a> which is rated at 12,000 BTU/hr when heating. For those rare nights when it gets really cold I may need to augment with a space heater but hopefully those nights will be few and far between.</div>
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I've updated the spreadsheet to reflect additional insulation in the floor which reduces the total heat loss, and to somewhat take into exfiltration, which increases the total heat loss. Exfiltration is simply interior air that leaks directly out of the house through the myriad of tiny cracks and holes that exist in any house. Of course, any interior air that leaks out is replaced by cold exterior air that leaks into (infiltrates) the house. The problem with calculating heat loss due to exfiltration is that there's really no way to do it. At best there are rules of thumb which were mostly developed in the days when houses were an order of magnitude leakier than this house will be. At some point we will do a blower door test which will tell us how leaky the house is when it's depressurized by a powerful fan but there's no rigorous way to extrapolate from that number to the actual leakage the house will see.</div>
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An empirical observation though: I was in the house today when the wind was really howling (white caps on the lake) and the outdoor temperature was in the 20's. Inside the house, it was at least 20 degrees warmer and there wasn't a trace of a draft. And the house isn't even completely sealed yet. There are still open holes where the electrical wiring goes through the walls. And the interior insulation has yet to be installed.</div>
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But the aesthetics of a traditional style house requires overhangs. As mentioned in the previous post, the top layer of plywood is installed in such a way as to extend beyond the roof plane. The plywood then needs to be supported as shown in the picture below. Looks simple but the carpentry has to be done carefully in order for these faux overhangs to align properly with the roof planes.<br />
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In the picture below the overhangs on the left side are complete. On the right side, you can see one of the "ladders" waiting to be installed.<br />
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As you can see in the pictures above, the windows were also being installed at the same time the overhangs were being built. With the windows in, the crew can now complete the application of the polyiso (the rigid foam insulation) to the walls. For the walls, I've opted to use 4" of polyiso, rather then the 6" on the roof, providing an insulation value of R-24 to the walls. On the interior the stud cavities of the walls will be filled with dense-pack cellulose which will yield about another R-13. With the sheathing, interior finish and the foil-facing on the insulation, the total insulation value of walls will be about R-40 when complete.<br />
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The polyiso is held tight to the house by screwing strapping through to the studs inside, similar to the way the plywood on the roof is screwed all the way through to the rafters. The strapping also provides a base for attaching the siding.<br />
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Finally a word about how foil helps to reduce heat transfer. The three mechanisms of heat transfer are <a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/understanding-r-value" target="_blank">conduction, convection and thermal radiation</a>. Insulation's primary job is to reduce heat transfer via conduction through the walls, the roof and the floor. The air barrier that prevents the conditioned air inside a house from escaping is the primary defense against heat loss through convection. And a shiny surface, like foil, reduces heat transfer via thermal radiation. Thermal radiation is why you feel hot when standing near a fire, and why you can feel cold in an uninsulated house even when the heat is cranked up. In the latter case, you are radiating to the cold walls.<br />
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-56514288713846835532013-10-25T16:29:00.000-04:002013-10-26T09:54:17.723-04:00Roof detailsThe roofing assembly we've chosen is somewhat complicated. Working from the bottom up, the first layer is the sheathing - in our case the red Zip board. Properly taped, the Zip system should provide an air barrier that is the key to minimizing air leakage into and out of the house. In the case of the roof, air leakage tends to be <i>out </i>of the house as the air pressure high in a house is greater than it is lower in the house due to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_effect" target="_blank">stack effect</a>.<br />
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Later in the roof assembly screws will be driven through the Zip board and into the rafters below. Unfortunately this results in penetrations through the air barrier. To prevent this from compromising the air barrier we applied a layer of Ice and Water Shield - a membrane designed to seal around and nails and screws driven though it.<br />
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Above that goes 6" of rigid <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyisocyanurate" target="_blank">polyisocyanurate</a> (polyiso) insulation which in our case means 3 layers of 2" thick boards. The insulation value of polyiso is generally quoted as R-6 per inch, so 6 inches will contribute R-36 to the roof. If you want a sense of how complicated building science can get check out <a href="http://www.buildingscience.com/documents/information-sheets/info-502-temperature-dependent-r-value" target="_blank">this paper</a> that examines how the R-value of polyiso can vary over time and temperature.<br />
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One thing I would have done differently had I thought about it ahead of time, is to have spec'ed fiberglass-faced polyiso ather than foil-faced. The foil is a vapor barrier and will keep the roof assembly from drying to the exterior. Also the foil will hinder cell phone reception inside the house.<br />
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On top of the ISO goes another layer of sheathing, in this case just regular plywood. This will be the sheathing to which the shingles will be nailed. The plywood is attached with long structural screws that go all the way through the sheathing, the insulation and the original Zip board and into the rafters. You can see the heads of the screws in the picture below. You can also see that there are quite a lot of them. These are, of course, the aforementioned screws that required the Ice and Water membrane on the Zip board.<br />
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Now I'm lucky if I can hit a stud in a wall behind a half inch of drywall so how, you might wonder, do the carpenters manage to hit the rafters through two layers of sheathing and 6 inches of insulation? Well, it's a bit of an art, from what I can tell, and they do sometimes miss and have to adjust.<br />
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And therein lies the story of one of those moments of panic that, I'm guessing, happens in every custom building project. The plywood went up on a Friday. The next day it was raining and when I made my daily check on the house, the roof was leaking in multiple places! It appeared the Ice and Water membrane wasn't even sealing around the screws well enough to keep the rain out, let alone provide an air seal. David assured me this wasn't normal and guessed that when some of the "screw misses" had been backed out, some of the holes that resulted had not been properly sealed. On Monday, the crew went over the roof, found multiple such holes and sealed them. Luckily it rained again that night, so we were able to determine that the leaks had indeed been fixed.<br />
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Here's a detail at an inside corner where you can see the roof assembly on edge. Just below the plywood you can see the edges of the three layers of polyiso. Just below the polyiso you can see the black Ice and Water Shield folded down over a course of vertical polyiso installed at the top of the walls. That blob of spray foam up in the corner is there to plug some gaps where the polyiso comes together in the valley on the roof . The plywood extends beyond the polyiso to form the roof overhangs. <br />
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The leaks were gone but I still had a a concern about the screws that hold the plywood down. Being situated on the east end of the lake the wind hits the house pretty hard. During a big storm it's easy to imagine rain getting forced up underneath the shingles. The screws are drilled tight to the plywood, but if water were to get under the shingles, I worry that water could wick down along the screws and get into the insulation. I'm probably being paranoid but I went ahead and had another layer of Ice and Water membrane applied to the plywood.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">September 10: A truck takes a container<br />
with my windows to a port somewhere in Europe.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The windows are screwed directly to the bracing.<br />
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<li>Apply the rigid foam insulation to the walls.</li>
<li>Apply the water shield membrane to the roof, running past the edge of the sheathing all the way to the outside of the foam on the walls. Hopefully water will never get to that membrane, but if it does, you want the water to flow to the <i>outside </i>of the foam.</li>
<li>Apply the rigid foam to the roof.</li>
<li>Apply another layer of plywood above the roof foam for nailing the shingles.</li>
<li>Shingle the roof</li>
<li>Build the porches.</li>
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-2527230704727893842013-09-20T16:26:00.000-04:002013-09-20T16:35:06.545-04:00PlumbingPlumbing sure has changed in the past 20 years. PVC drain pipe long ago replaced cast iron, but it's relatively recent that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene" target="_blank">PEX supply lines</a> have replaced copper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The manifold is like a circuit breaker panel for plumbing. The red<br />
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One question I had about PEX is whether it makes sense to insulate the hot water lines. I'm assuming that hot water in PEX tubing, compared to copper, will lose far less heat as it travels to the tap but insulating still seems like a fairly simple and low cost thing to do. The plumber said no one had ever asked for it before but that he'd be willing to do it. Nevertheless something got lost in the communication with his crew and the pipes are uninsulated. But I'll take advantage of this to do an experiment. Once I'm in the house, I'll measure the temperature at the tap before and after insulating the pipes and see for myself how much of a difference it makes.<br />
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While we're talking plumbing, apparently toilet technology has also improved over the past couple of decades and water-saving toilets actually work. I'll be getting <a href="http://www.americanstandard-us.com/toilets/H2Option-Dual-Flush-Round-Front-1.0-1.6gpf-Toilet-2717/" target="_blank">this dual-flush toilet</a> from American Standard. The big flush is 1.6 gallons and the small flush is just 1.0 gallon.<br />
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Since I'll be living on a lake I'm trying to be sensitive about how much nitrogen and phosphorus I add to the lake. I plan on getting my septic tank pumped more often than strictly required for the health of the septic system. But for that to make a difference I need to minimize how much water I push through the entire system.<br />
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The rough plumbing has started. After months of <strike>obsessing</strike> research, I actually have to decide now about showers, shower heads, faucets, etc.<br />
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But the hot water heater heater is more relevant. In a tight, super-insulated house, a large fraction of the total energy usage goes toward hot water, so deciding how you want to heat your water is an important consideration. The choices boil down to: electric vs. natural gas and tankless vs. tank-type. Oh, and possibly solar hot water as well. Greenbuildingadvisor.com has a great rundown on all the <a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/green-basics/water-heating" target="_blank">options for water heating</a>.<br />
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Tankless at first seems very appealing. They're small; they have the promise of never running out of hot water and they don't have any energy losses while not in use. The disadvantages: they're expensive to install, they're complicated and if they break, more expensive to repair or replace, they add a bit of extra time before hot water appears at the faucet, and they have to be sized for the worst case hot water draw.<br />
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Based on all that, I've decided to go with a tank-type.<br />
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So gas or electric? Given that I have a natural gas line running to the house, there's a strong argument that I should go with gas. From a carbon footprint point-of-view, it's better to use gas, since a gas-fired power plant will <a href="http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=107&t=3" target="_blank">use about 3 times as much gas</a> to generate the electricity to heat a given amount of water as a gas hot water heater would use to heat the water directly. It's actually more complicated than that since some electricity is generated by solar/wind/hydro (better) and some by coal (worse).<br />
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You can probably already see where this is going - I chose an electric heat-pump hot water heater for several reasons.<br />
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<li>When you have solar panels on your roof, the monthly savings are greater if you <i>use </i>the electricity they generate rather than pumping that electricity back into the grid.</li>
<li>The cheaper installation costs.</li>
<li>I won't need to have a vent running through the roof to vent the combustion products of a gas unit.</li>
<li>This would have been the only natural gas appliance in the house and I like the idea of one fewer bill and one fewer company to deal with.</li>
<li>Because I have a full basement and the basement is unconditioned (outside the insulated building envelope) I won't be affected by the somewhat noisy heat-pump.</li>
<li>When the heat pump is running, it removes humidity from the air. So I'll get a slightly dryer basement.</li>
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The particular model I chose is the <a href="http://www.geappliances.com/heat-pump-hot-water-heater/" target="_blank">GE Geospring</a>. It's $1000 direct from GE and there's $300 federal rebate, so it'll wind up costing me about $700 plus shipping and tax and getting a 240v outlet installed for it.<br />
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So what about solar hot water? For me, it just adds way too much complexity - a whole additional mechanical system that has to be installed, maintained and repaired. Plus, with the increasing efficiency of photovoltaic panels, there a <a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/solar-thermal-dead" target="_blank">growing school of thought</a> that it actually saves money to use the roof space for additional photovoltaic panels rather than solar thermal panels.<br />
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Sharp-eyed observers may have noticed that the roof of the second floor is asymmetric. In the spirit of "form follows function", the south facing roof plane is larger than the north facing roof plane in order to fit more solar panels than would have been possible otherwise. Will it look a bit odd? Yes. But hopefully only a bit.</div>
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Another thing that you may have noticed is that the house appears to have no eaves. In the more traditional method of framing a house, the roof rafters would extend beyond the plane of the walls to create the eaves. But that would create a "thermal bridge" between the interior of the house and the exterior. A thermal bridge is a path for heat to travel without encountering any insulation.</div>
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In this house, once the windows are installed, the entire house will be wrapped in 4 inches of rigid foam insulation and the eaves will be added after the foam in order to minimize the thermal bridging. I say minimize rather than eliminate because there are a few penetrations that seem impossible to design away (I'm looking at you, plumbing vent stacks.)</div>
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Because there will be so much insulation on the <i>outside </i>of the walls, there's less need for insulation in the stud cavities. I will still be getting dense-pack cellulose blown into the stud bays but having so much insulation on the outside allowed me to specify 2x4 walls rather than 2x6. This will give me around R-22 on the outside and about R-12 on the inside, as well as about 30 additional square feet of interior space.</div>
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-54319900930019796712013-09-12T22:03:00.001-04:002013-09-13T21:08:18.719-04:00Window updateTomas from <a href="http://yarowindows.com/" target="_blank">Yaro Windows</a> called today and said that the windows should arrive on October 2. The exterior insulation, siding and roofing can't begin until the windows are installed because the windows are going to be installed in the plane of the wall framing and have to be sealed to the exterior sheathing before the rigid foam insulation is attached.<br />
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When a house is wrapped in exterior insulation, windows set in the plane of the wall framing are called "innies". You can read more about about <a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/innie-windows-or-outie-windows" target="_blank">innies versus outies</a> at greenbuildingadvisor.com.</div>
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-36014235573751443562013-09-09T22:56:00.000-04:002013-09-12T20:21:57.970-04:00Designing the half bathThere's going to be a small half bathroom on the first floor that will also provide access to the back of a built-in aquarium. As I had a pretty specific notion of how I want it to be framed, I decided to bite the bullet and see if I could model it in <a href="http://www.sketchup.com/" target="_blank">Sketchup</a>. Luckily I stumbled upon a nice tutorial about <a href="http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/12812/use-sketchup-to-create-a-3d-framing-model" target="_blank">using Sketchup to create a framing model</a>. Several hours later and I had the model shown below.<br />
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Not only did Sketchup help me to create drawings that I can now share with the builders, it also helped me to really refine the design of the room. Pretty powerful stuff and even more so when you consider that the basic version is free. Sketchup does have a fairly steep learning curve but it's worth the effort. Now I wish I had learned to use it months ago to model the entire house.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see the newly installed ridge beam at the top of the photo.</td></tr>
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-71806670199271217722013-08-30T13:49:00.000-04:002013-08-31T13:52:19.687-04:00Prepping for the ridge beam<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The adhesive bead that seals the base plate of the wall to the subfloor.<br />
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-71053351449334849122013-08-28T18:43:00.001-04:002013-08-28T19:05:22.912-04:00Wall Framing<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking toward what will be the first floor bedroom and bathroom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not even quite the rough window opening for the main window,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the lake side. The sheathing is <a href="http://www.huberwood.com/zipsystem/home-zip-system" target="_blank">Zip System sheathing</a>.<br />
The green coating on the board is impermeable to air and moisture transfer and<br />
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-84423700892349383942013-08-28T18:24:00.002-04:002013-08-28T19:36:55.534-04:00The Crew<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499999580678582041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6375927623912443608.post-57999072802100795342013-08-27T17:35:00.000-04:002013-08-28T18:51:19.096-04:00First floor deck<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first LVL (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminated_veneer_lumber" target="_blank">Laminated Veneer Lumber</a>) installed for the floor deck.<br />
The foundation is L-shaped and this<br />
LVL divides the L into two rectangles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The joists installed for the south section of the house.<br />
These joists are 15' long but there's a beam underneath them<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same joists from the west side (the lake side). The joists are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-joist" target="_blank">I-joists</a>. This will<br />
likely affect the way we will insulate the floor deck from the basement.<br />
Back when we were planning on keeping the old floor deck I had asked<br />
that the foam insulation be sprayed between the joists but also over and<br />
around the joists to eliminate the thermal short circuit through the joists.<br />
But that means using quite a bit more insulation which adds significant cost. <br />
Since the I-joists have a much thinner profile the thermal short circuit is much<br />
reduced and it probably makes more sense to just spray between the joists. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting to lay the <a href="http://www.huberwood.com/advantech/products/advantech-flooring" target="_blank">Advantech</a> subfloor. Advantech subflooring is another<br />
engineered lumber product that looks much like OSB (oriented strand board)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the floor deck is done.<br />
You can see one of the wall frames laying on the deck for tomorrow!</td></tr>
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