The ventilation and heating system was installed from November 2007 to January 2008. The heat pump and boiler. Air is circulated around the house through pipes in the ceilings and walls. ...
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A very distinctive feature of our house is the clay walls. The clay helps to optimise the humidity in the house, is a natural and safe material (thus adding to the healthy living environment), an...
From 9-11 November it was the Passive House Open Door weekend in Europe. Our architects put on presentations for the press and public, and about 250 people visited the house over three days, incl...
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When you are having a house built, you don't have time to update a blog! A lot has happened in recent weeks: mainly to do with the interior fittings. Also, at the end of October we had to move ou...
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On 21 September 2007 the first blower door test took place. This test measures the ratio between the volume of air that is leaked within one hour (when via the blower door the house is either un...
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On 18 September 2007 the windows went in. They came from the Czech company called Janosik (not to be confused with the Slovak Robin Hood!). As our windows won't need to opened (the ventilation sy...
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So much has happened over the past month that I haven't had time to update the blog! Here is a brief look at what happened in the first half of September. 8 September 2007: Thick cardboard cladd...
http://passivehouse.blogspot.com/2007/10/progress-mid-september.html
View from the footpath. There is no way of stopping Adam exploring! Upstairs. Alex's bedroom and landing/den. Upstairs. Master bedroom and study. Boys' bedrooms. Roof detail.
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In August the second floor has gone up and the roof has gone on. We have also sold our flat, so have the finances to continue! We have agreed with the buyers that we will move out by the end of O...
In the hottest week since weather records began, and with temperatures reaching 40 degrees plus, the frame for the first floor went up. This was not a good week to be working on a building site! ...
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The airtightness tape is an essential part of our passive house as it covers all the gaps and holes where air and moisture could seep in or out. It is really important that the house is as airtig...
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The first floor and beams fill Rudolf the carpenter's workshop. Everything is prepared ready to be mounted on the site in just one or two days. Beams to separate the floors (on left). First f...
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We needed the ground floor in order to get an official valuation done for mortgage purposes. Building on the plot came to a standstill for a few weeks while we waited for the money to come in. Me...
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No sooner had the first walls been raised than a huge storm with gale force winds hit the area, bringing down trees and taking roofs off buildings! Emma drove out later in the evening to check th...
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On a scorching hot day the team of architect, builders and carpenters put up the ground-floor frame. The pre-fabricated walls arrive by lorry. Unloading the first wall. Bjorn, the architec...
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Our friend Marian has now been employed as our building contractor and his team of carpenters, led by Rudolf, are putting together the wooden frame of the house. They started at the beginning of ...
We've had a bit of a break in postings due to technical reasons, as our home computer crashed with lots of photos on it and we haven't been able to recover the hard drive yet. Emma has also start...
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The land in January after it had been cleared of the vines, trees and bushes. The path on the right is the access road to the house behind our plot. 17th February 2007: Alex the builder, ...
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On Wednesday we signed the contract with the builder who is doing the ground works. Holes for the foundations have been dug this week and the concrete may be being poured as I write. They are als...
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INTRO This blog is going to record the building of our passive house near Bratislava, Slovakia. We have a bit of catching up to do, as work has already started. THE CONCEPT We aim to build a pas...
http://passivehouse.blogspot.com/2007/01/story-so-far_25.html