May 2012
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April 2012
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$200 per year heat bill
Another heating season (almost) done with!
Results this year so far (to end of March):
1111KWH’s above our base rate of 18KWH/day in the non-heating season. This is the consumption of our 12000BTU air source heat pump. We pay $0.1265/KWH including all taxes for $140.54.
We also burnt 1/2 cord of hardwood in our small airtight stove. We bought this wood when we were building at about...
100 foods before you die thing
I am a little more than half way through the list. There are some questionable items on here, why hostess friut pies and moon pies?!
1. Abalone
2. Absinthe
3. Alligator
4. Baba Ghanoush
5. Bagel & Lox
6. Baklava
7. BBQ Ribs
8. Bellini
9. Birds Nest Soup
10. Biscuits & Gravy
11. Black Pudding
12. Black Truffle
13. Borscht
14. Calamari
15. Carp
16. Caviar
17. Cheese Fondue
18. Chicken...
February 2012
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December 2011
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Free Home Building details - coming soon
I plan on publishing a series of articles related to energy efficient home building with details, tips, construction methods, analysis of pros and cons of different materials very soon, and all for free!
Stay tuned.
August 2011
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Super Insulated Wall Systems
When most people are planning to build a new house they usually think about the number of rooms they will have, the layout and floor plan, maybe the type of heating system but rarely the insulation. Most people assume a new home built to code (whatever that jurisdiction the code is from) means that it must be well insulated and energy efficient.
While that may be true is some progressive...
July 2011
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Archives and House stuff
So greenspree.ca has moved to a new tumblr account home and all the old posts are located here. In moving the content a lot of the photo links will be broken and the categories were all deleted. I have gone through and re categorized the house posts so you can find them all here. I will be updating the posts and basically rewriting the story of the house construction with photos again on the...
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Chest Fridge
So after living in the strawbale home for a year and a half I realized that I never posted the results of one of themost talked about and controversial aspects of our plans, the chest fridge!
Here is the fridge, it’s a 10.5 cubic foot (actual dimensions, it’s labelled a12 cubic foot) and has a Brewers Edge temperature controller attached:
I’ve attached a Kill-a-Watt meter...
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The strawbale home
In the spring of 2007 my wife and I embarked on a three year journey in the design and construction of our strawbale home in Emyvale, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
By the end of the autumn in 2007 we had started stuccoing the bales and then began another year and a half of stuccoing, tarping and untarping, erecting and tearing down scaffolding and just basic grueling work. Had we guessed the...
June 2011
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