What it Takes to Build a "Better" House | Breaking Ground EP 1

Passivhaus has some good ideas in it, but "passive" is a misnomer. Just try not being at home at the right time to close the drapes in the evening, or not being awake to open them in the morning ... or having a month or two of persistent heavy overcast and rain in winter! Active heating through hydronic or electric mesh floor heating powered by solar hot water or photovoltaics, still heats your house on energy you can extract from sunlight, but does it much more efficiently and reliably than a bunch of sun-facing windows. And of course, if you've got enough solar panels on your roof to run a winter floor heating system, then it's easily enough to run whatever cooling you need in summer. What we do need to see is much more emphasis on roof designs that are ready to support a lot of solar panels. No more of these mutliple decorative broken gables and zigzag roofs - the sun facing roof should be a nice big uninterrupted rectangular plane.

Production quality of these videos is top notch. Great builder content. I'm surprised there's only 45 subscribers. +1 more!

Thank you. This was great!

Wow… can’t wait for more episodes !!

Learned a lot in a short period of time. Thanks

how much per square foot does a house like that cost? $400? $500?