Going 9+ yrs still averaging $21/mo to heating & cooling (ceilings, cost, build)

[InterestedOne]

See attached photo.


2-story, 1,700Sf, 4 BR, high ceilings, 3 baths, high ceilings
Average Heating & Cooling cost per month =~ $21 average or ~ $0.0124/sf/mo.

Funny Story:

In 2005/6 the owner had a New Years ever party. At midnight, they all went outside to shoot the guns. One of the guest shot the electric lines disabling one of the electric wires serving the home. It took two weeks for the utility company to repair the problem. Without 240 volts/2-phase service to the home his heating system was able to operate. Two weeks without heat in frigid sub freezing January - the interior space temperature never dropped below 65 deg F.

Thoughts or comments?

[InterestedOne]

See attached picture.

This owner said she stopped showing off her low electric bill because everyone refused to believe her.



Built in late 2002 for 75K (about $30/sf), sold for $119, appraised for 199k. Its a 2-Story, 2,500 ft, 4 BR (grand master suite), 3 bath, shop, single garage LR/DR/Kit, play area, and more. Cathedral ceilings about the home. Start to finish took about 4 weeks. Its was a site constructed home, not a manufactured one.


Features such as advanced energy savings, greater fire resistance, and increased resistance to storm or quakes can be obtained in many ways. However, stick and concrete do not offer needed economical synergy whereby cost effective resolve is not justifiable in most cases.

There are a series formulas that conclude most affordable manner to build and equip a home delivering the best home ownership ratio possible.

I truly do tip my cap to architects, I have known and befriended many fine ones throughout my career. However, I am highly discouraged with the extreme conservatism for which they administer to the science aspects of their profession. I'd rather like to see architects embraced technology advancements with the same zeal they do for the art aspect of the profession. If so, there might be faster affordable progress.

Architects are not at the forefront of the "at-or-near zero energy movement, its engineering. Both professions, shoulder to shoulder, should move in parallel each accepting that which the other desires as integral to a single product. The day we all start looking at a home as a single system instead of a box of single function items the better off everyone will be.

Viewing a home as a a bunch of single function unrelated technologies is wrong thinking. When treating a home as a single system, upgrading one aspect will lower the cost to improve beneficial use of another technology or configuration. More importantly done right and one will appreciate a safety, security, and comfort never know before.

For thoughts or comments, feel free to post them here.

Thank you.

[elnina]

The picture shows one store house, no?

[Merc63]

A lot of buzzwords in your post, but not a lot of substance. Just a small picture of what appears to be a fairly normal house. Nothing about what actually makes it efficient, just your word that it is.

[headingtoDenver]

I can have a 25 dollar power bill too. I'll just turn everything off at the breaker for 3 weeks out of the month.

[headingtoDenver]

dude.. second post similar to this. Did you get hacked?

[Pitt Chick]

pushing a business is my guess...

[mkarch]

I'm curious about the $25 moth.

[InterestedOne]

Originally Posted by elnina

The picture shows one store house, no?

The photo is not copy written, I took the picture. I am not copywritting it. I am making it available to everyone. What you cannot see ti the back level, its a fully finished lower level.

[InterestedOne]

Originally Posted by Pitt Chick

pushing a business is my guess...

Actually, no. I am giving some of the research results to interested persons wishing a better quality, more affordable home. I don't do construction any more. I am into bigger and better things these days.