Modern Green Home

MALCO.New.York

Final-Freakin-Ly............A REAL Green poster!!!!!!

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critter

The roof on the home is 12 inch batt and I do have some condensation under the steel, despite vapor retardant primer. Upon further reading, I should have applied 3 or four coats to achieve the recommended mil thickness, but I only did two. THat is probably some of the problem. Walls took about two years to dry - another part of the problem. Home is now five years old and seems to be much less condensate under the steel, which I unscrew to spot check from time to time during cold weather. The wiring was all done in pvc conduit and boxes in the mud walls. Boxes were located by screwing through the forms, then stayed in place courtesy of the conduit anchorage in the mud. Interior surfaces were finished by working floor leveler into the straw/mud surface. It is hard, durable, and naturally attractive. Holes for windows were simply boxed out and a few pieces of rebar and hardware cloth thrown across the top to carry weight. Floors are 3" concrete, pex tubing on 9 inch centers, then 3 more inches of concrete. A partial basement houses a timberline wood stove and an oil-fired water heater (32 gal) which provides domestic and heat in an open loop system. Mud walls alone weigh in at over 192 tons and the floors are approximately another 100 tons in this 4,000 sq. ft. house. Insulation is all outside the footings, so there is another 600 tons of earth involved. Needless to say, if the heat stops, It takes a couple of weeks for the house to cool down to uncomfortable, unless doors are open a lot.

critter

Thanks Malco man! I wanted to do underground with bentonite barrier and 6 foot burial, but my building site slopes north. Poop! So this whole house has been a big plan B, but I'm really happy with it. Sod roof would have cost major support materials and I wasn't sure how the bearing on the walls would be. THey feel like concrete, but....

MALCO.New.York

I only say this because I am a RABID opponent of the "Green" movement as America and the Media present it.

Go Green, do it RIGHT.

I get tired of persons saying that "x" flooring is "Green" or thinner sheet rock is "Green". It is all about using old or "out of the ground" materials that makes something Green!

Reduce, Reuse is Green. Recycle, not so much!!!!

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Something to One may be Nothing to another!

Ultimate Wisdom---------
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critter

HE he! Then you'll like that even my stonework is salvaged from the fallen barn that used to be here!

MALCO.New.York

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mickeyco

2 Story Green House.




Modern Green House

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MattCoops

Obscure reference:
As a painter, I don't like the term "green". I prefer blue-yellow instead.
Hey, is there such a thing as green-colored travertine? It seems a lot of LEED certified houses around here have travertine flooring. I myself rather have unglazed ceramic in a propaganda-green home and of course be of blue-yellow in tonal shade.