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"Edelweiss House"

Edelweiss House / Discussions

In your Edelweiss house you use 2x6 studs. Why not use 2x4 studs and add 2" rigid on the inside?

...Edelweiss house are fully filled with 2x6s, and would have been much thicker if the structure were made out of 2x4s. Designs with higher levels of glazings are ...

Posted by Tom Wagar Aug. 25, 2019 Wall assemblies - new construction 1 response

Can you elevate a slab on grade foundation?

...Edelweiss House. This page has a video about how to build passive solar homes,  where you can see how we raised the level of the slab with clean compactible fil...

Posted by Raoul Lions July 27, 2019 Slab on Grade 4 responses

Looking to build a small home as eco as possible, where do we start?

...Edelweiss House. Here are a few pages I would recommend as a starting place. What to look for in a home building lot How to build a passive solar home How to b...

Posted by Jennifer Bisson July 12, 2019 Planning and Design 2 responses

Can you use a vapour retarder paint on the ceiling instead of using a poly vapour barrier?

...Edelweiss House rather than a standard 6 mil polyethylene vapour barrier partly because we already had an Air Barrier in place as you mentioned. For the ceiling...

Posted by Anwas Qwelten June 8, 2019 Air and vapour barriers 2 responses

If a passive house is designed well is it worth the extra cost for Low E window coatings?

...Edelweiss House where we employed a very comprehensive passive heating and cooling strategy in our and we had different coatings on the north windows compared t...

Posted by Joe Van Kuren June 7, 2019 Passive solar home design 1 response

Are there any updates on the progress of the second demonstration house?

...house is now standing, it is the first house built of our new prefab modular kit houses available across Canada and the US. you can see a full break down of the...

Posted by dean c April 30, 2019 Solar thermal collectors 2 responses

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