Walking down the road

Woods, meadow and mountains

Sylvia starts her own building

Waiting. That's what I'm doing. What others are doing is the analysis of the house to see if it can be a "passive house". Demetri and Jason, along with a colleague, Mary, all admitted novices to this exercise, have loaded tons and tons of data into a program and come up with some initial results that look promising. Looks like with the house as it is, there will be a shortfall of something like 6,000 btu/hr during the coldest 2 months of the year (or maybe it it the sunlessest 2 months of the year!), Dec and Jan. But the back-up heating system, a little Vermont Castings wood stove with a baking oven, puts out 30,000 btu/hr. So, we're still in the running. Wednesday, they meet with a pro who will take a look, do some tweaking no doubt, and I'll have more to report.

In the meantime, some summer pictures of the site and views from the site.