We’ve finally been able to make it through an entire year with a negative net usage of electricity. As of right now we have 309 kWh left in our utility ‘bank’ after 12 billing cycles. Our...
We never thought this would happen, but we are published in the current special issue of Dwell, entitled ‘Your Rooms We Love’! We’re still waiting for the printed copy in the mail, but I ...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/were-in-dwell/
Our fall project was to build the tractor/woodshed on the north side of the house. This would be a huge improvement over the black membrane covering that I have over the tractor now, and the lu...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/tractor-woodshed/
We took some ‘finished’ photos of the house last weekend. These are the majority of the 44 blueberry bushes that we’ve planted around the property. In a few years we should be harvesting ...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/photo-roundup/
Minus a few items like a handrail, base trim on the house, and some grading and stonework, we’re basically done with the deck. It took several weeks to install the Garapa decking since because ...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/deck-nearly-done/
Jess and I had always talked about building our deck with the image of a steel pedestrian bridge in mind. We liked the idea that the structure doubles as a guardrail. A great example is the o...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/deck-framing/
Sadly It’s’ been about 7 months since we’ve done a blog update. Mostly because our house projects this winter had more to do with plowing snow, and hauling cordwood than designing and bui...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/more-to-come/
This year we have decided to offer our house up as part of the Green Buildings Open House organized by NESEA. We also hosted last year, though this year with the house complete there will be mu...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/nesea-green-buildings-open-house-2013/
I described in a previous post the construction of the insulated hemlock board door. We really liked how it turned out, but unfortunately the western sun got the better of it. In the spring w...
https://eaglepondhouse.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/front-door-saga/
Yesterday we received our final Energy Star Certification Report, which includes an air leakage report, a fuel summary, and our HER score. In all there are very encouraging numbers, and other n...