From March of 05-July of 06 we built a new house on an urban infill lot near downtown Sacramento. Jeff designed it, Mike was the general contractor. Our house is 3 stories high and 17' wide x 72' long. Among the goals were energy efficiency, cool design, & noise mitigation as we are right next to an 8 lane freeway. The house has solar electric, solar hot water & radiant heat. For the past 4 years we have been working on the landscaping...
Monday, July 21, 2008
cover it up
When we first built the house we knew that we wanted solar shade screens, but we ran out of money...In anticipation of having the money one day, we installed the wall switches and wiring for all 5 screens and we also put smurf tubing through the walls so that when we were able to afford the screens, the installation would be easy.. After two years, we finally were ready to bite off the expense and had the electric screens installed on all the big East, South, and West facing windows. The difference is amazing. Our house just does not warm up during the day....


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