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The Forest Hill house was commissioned by a night-shift worker with a love of house plants & the land upon which he was raised. The lot, bequeathed by grandma, faces due south with a big sky view, interrupted only by a distant fir; ideal for passive solar harvest, active photovoltaic (PV) harvest, and vegetable harvest!<\/p>\n
Built over the winter of 2020\/ 2021, Jeff tells me the build was all straightforward, except grinding down the interior slab-on-grade after the stick-frame walls were built. The grinder is a frustratingly twitchy machine, time consuming, and no one\u2019s favorite job. The result however is a beautiful concrete floor with the aggregate cut-through, showing patina from the bull-float & the cream in the concrete. This floor will endure through many years of very hard wear.<\/span><\/p>\n Equally durable materials are used to clad the SIP roof & walls; NuDura metal roofing & Hardie fiber-cement lap siding combine to protect the insulating SIPs foam panels. The siding was hung in-house by TC and the fellas did a fabulous job of precisely stacking the board-joints, setting up a very pleasing pattern in the siding.<\/p>\n To clad the small 6\u201d ICF (Insulated concrete form) upstand, TC uses colored 26 gauge metal to protect the insulating foam from impact & abrasion.<\/p>\n The highly insulated energy-shell enables this home to be heated with 12Btu\/ hour (max) Fujitsu minisplit. This is an all-electric, net zero house, ready for the future. Including the coming storms\u2026.<\/p>\n Battery power is a hot topic these days, with grid managers planning for greater grid efficiency by storing off-peak grid surplus in privately owned battery systems.<\/p>\n TC Installed the 5Kw LG lithium-ion house battery on the exterior north wall. Integrated with the PV, the battery allows the PV produced electricity to be stored, ensuring this all-electric house works even when the power goes down.<\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”3376,3377,3378,3379,3380,3381,3382,3383,3384,3385,3386,3387,3369,3370,3371,3372,3373,3374,3375″ posts_number=”26″ show_title_and_caption=”off” show_pagination=”off” module_class=”pa-image-gallery-1-1″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/floor-plan.jpg” title_text=”floor plan” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Forest Hill house was commissioned by a night-shift worker with a love of house plants & the land upon which he was raised. The lot, bequeathed by grandma, faces due south with a big sky view, interrupted only by a distant fir; ideal for passive solar harvest, active photovoltaic (PV) harvest, and vegetable harvest! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"project_category":[79],"project_tag":[170,41,58,171,42,172,22,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3366\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}