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Energy efficiency in the NW USA woods
Building 2042 sq ft living area home in the NW woods. The easiest way to get state of WA energy credits would have been solar panels, but to situate the house on the property the way we wanted the roof was facing the wrong direction (NW) and I think the best way to save energy is to use less anyway. So we built with 10 inch SIP panel roofing (R49), ZIP System® R-sheathing in addition to in-wall insulation (R26), triple pain windows, tested air leakage w/whole house heat recovery ventilation (HRV), air-source centrally ducted heat pump, electric heat pump host water heating AND….
…..all LED lighting ReNetA system by LumenCach.
Thanks to chuckmario_built for this great video of the project: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6FhM-ZRVa-/ and to Craig Curtis Carpentry for the great build.
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Your build looks great, where did you get the SIPs from?
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