Mocking Up the ideal home
Okay. I want to give the credit for the inspiration of this idea to Tom Peterson and Greg Lambert.
Here's the gist of the discussion/project...
I really don't like to assume but in this case I think that it's pretty safe to assume that everyone in this group over their lifetime thus far has seen and lived in more than a few homes, whether those homes be houses, apartments, condos, trailers, tents or whatever.... The point being that each one of us should by now have a more than good idea of what our ideal home would be. How it would look, the floor plan, how it would function, power sources, water management, waste management, various ammenities, etc. etc.
In any case, Tom has given us SEE as a base to begin building from. So we start with the base of our mocked-up ideal home as being SEE (Tom can enlighten us more on exactly what that is) and then we each bring our pick of choice components to the sandbox where we dump them out for everyone else to see. Then... piece by piece we begin to assemble (as if we were putting together a jigsaw puzzle) an ideal generic home that anyone of us would not at all mind living in. In fact, I will go so far as to say...anyone of us would really like to call this dwelling their home. And...I do believe that at the very least, this could be quite a learning experience for us all.
So, there you have it. Looking forward to seeing what you bring to dump out into this sandbox. In other words, if you were going to build your ideal home, describe what it would be (the more details the better) and...you don't have to do it all at once.
Any questions just ask.
Monte
Here's the gist of the discussion/project...
I really don't like to assume but in this case I think that it's pretty safe to assume that everyone in this group over their lifetime thus far has seen and lived in more than a few homes, whether those homes be houses, apartments, condos, trailers, tents or whatever.... The point being that each one of us should by now have a more than good idea of what our ideal home would be. How it would look, the floor plan, how it would function, power sources, water management, waste management, various ammenities, etc. etc.
In any case, Tom has given us SEE as a base to begin building from. So we start with the base of our mocked-up ideal home as being SEE (Tom can enlighten us more on exactly what that is) and then we each bring our pick of choice components to the sandbox where we dump them out for everyone else to see. Then... piece by piece we begin to assemble (as if we were putting together a jigsaw puzzle) an ideal generic home that anyone of us would not at all mind living in. In fact, I will go so far as to say...anyone of us would really like to call this dwelling their home. And...I do believe that at the very least, this could be quite a learning experience for us all.
So, there you have it. Looking forward to seeing what you bring to dump out into this sandbox. In other words, if you were going to build your ideal home, describe what it would be (the more details the better) and...you don't have to do it all at once.
Any questions just ask.
Monte
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Hi Monte: This is Anachronism; I'm starting a response as to the process mentioned above. My first "home" cost $100 dollars in June of 1963. It was a granary built in 1889 and scheduled to be “torched” to allow Interstate 5 to be built through that property. I had five days to arrange the moving of this monster a mile. I was able to borrow $3,500 to move, create a foundation and set it down on a ¼ acre piece received as a wedding present. Short and sweet, I start five businesses on the ground floor of our barn and we lived on the upper two floors. My total investment in this project totaled $5000 with countless hours of family enjoyment building our home. We sold our old granary in 1973 for $75,000 and moved on to our next adventure in Centralia Washington. The story will continue as we traveled 20 years forward in life. From 1973 to reach a final house design in 1996 incorporating 33 years of design changes for our final home design.
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Here's my dump into the sand box. This is only one practical concept of many practiced. Anachronism
Tom-and all the others,
My focus on "Passive Solar Heat and Passive Solar Cooling" started in 1983 in Burlington Wash. Our first project using "Passive Solar" cost a total of $75 and three hours to create. This Building is 95 feet x 55 feet x 27 feet tall. The first day it "operated", I was sweeping the first floor and had turned "OFF" the hot-water gas boiler when the building was heated to 65 degree. I heard the "Fan system" start and I went to the furnace room to see why the fan was running? My "Total" solar system composed of a remote sensor located in the attic space, 10" from the roof inside peak. I had set this sensor to 65 degree's and "IF" this temperature occurred in the attic, it would activate the 1/3hp motor on the hot-water radiator unit connected to my "Used" boiler system.
Upon entering my furnace room, I first confirmed the furnace was off. The next actions were to rotate the "sensor" dial counter-clockwise to find out if the attic temperate actually activated the fan system. Turned "UP" to 68, the fan stopped. I turned it back to 65 and the fan started again and "Warm" air flowed out on the exhaust opening. Guess what was happening outside at 2:00 in the afternoon? I went outside to find out what was going on? Guess what I found? It had been snowing for the last 4 hours and three inches of snow had accumulated on the roof and the temperature was 34 degree's. This system has continued for 24 years with no repairs of changes. The volume in cubic feet is 130,625 and the “stand alone natural gas expense” to supplement this building normally ran $150 a month for winter heating to maintain 65 degree's inside.
My last project in Vancouver, in 1987, I created and installed a "Super System" to supply "Solar Heating" and "Passive Solar Cooling" to automatically determine the need for either cooling or heating. The added cost to create this totally passive system, in 1988 was an added expense of $800. The required natural gas needed when the weather did not supply the right conditions cost approx. $30 per month, or $1 dollar to heat a building of 220,700 cubic feet. This figures out to $.0001359 cent per cubic foot of air space. Interesting?
It will work in any typical house. The above project has the cubic volume of 12 typical 2.400 sq. foot homes and cost $1.13 to heat every day for the last 20 years.
During the first years operation in 1989 it cost approx. $30 per month, or $1 dollar to heat and cool a building of 220,700 cubic feet. This figures out to $.0001359 cent per cubic foot of air space. Interesting? It will work in any typical house. My systems has continued to operate for 25 years with NO changes or REPAIRS.
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Here's my dump into the sand box. This is only one practical concept of many practiced. Anachronism
Tom-and all the others,
My focus on "Passive Solar Heat and Passive Solar Cooling" started in 1983 in Burlington Wash. Our first project using "Passive Solar" cost a total of $75 and three hours to create. This Building is 95 feet x 55 feet x 27 feet tall. The first day it "operated", I was sweeping the first floor and had turned "OFF" the hot-water gas boiler when the building was heated to 65 degree. I heard the "Fan system" start and I went to the furnace room to see why the fan was running? My "Total" solar system composed of a remote sensor located in the attic space, 10" from the roof inside peak. I had set this sensor to 65 degree's and "IF" this temperature occurred in the attic, it would activate the 1/3hp motor on the hot-water radiator unit connected to my "Used" boiler system.
Upon entering my furnace room, I first confirmed the furnace was off. The next actions were to rotate the "sensor" dial counter-clockwise to find out if the attic temperate actually activated the fan system. Turned "UP" to 68, the fan stopped. I turned it back to 65 and the fan started again and "Warm" air flowed out on the exhaust opening. Guess what was happening outside at 2:00 in the afternoon? I went outside to find out what was going on? Guess what I found? It had been snowing for the last 4 hours and three inches of snow had accumulated on the roof and the temperature was 34 degree's. This system has continued for 24 years with no repairs of changes. The volume in cubic feet is 130,625 and the “stand alone natural gas expense” to supplement this building normally ran $150 a month for winter heating to maintain 65 degree's inside.
My last project in Vancouver, in 1987, I created and installed a "Super System" to supply "Solar Heating" and "Passive Solar Cooling" to automatically determine the need for either cooling or heating. The added cost to create this totally passive system, in 1988 was an added expense of $800. The required natural gas needed when the weather did not supply the right conditions cost approx. $30 per month, or $1 dollar to heat a building of 220,700 cubic feet. This figures out to $.0001359 cent per cubic foot of air space. Interesting?
It will work in any typical house. The above project has the cubic volume of 12 typical 2.400 sq. foot homes and cost $1.13 to heat every winter day for the last 20 years. No cost for all the Passive Solar Cooling except the cost to operate two, 1/4-hp squirrel cage fan to suck the cool air from the Passive Solar Cooling collection into the interior of the building.
During the first years operation in 1989 it cost approx. $30 per month, or $1 dollar to heat and cool a building of 220,700 cubic feet. This figures out to $.0001359 cent per cubic foot of air space. Interesting? It will work in any typical house. My systems has continued to operate for 25 years with NO changes or REPAIRS.
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