What an absolutely stunning area of the world to live in! I wish we had the option to build and live in houses in the middle of a forest here in the uk!
@@joeyt8643 Both. There's nowhere near as much forest cover in the uk vs the us and any area that does have forest cover probably wont allow you to build an innovative house like this :(
Buy a rural farm in the UK, plant a ton of pine trees. 7 years later you can have your own personal tiny Forrest. White pines (building lumber) grow very quickly (for trees) and will give you your own little forest if you are serious
I have the perfect location in Blue Hill for a passive solar house. North faces road; south side would face the woods and could be 80% glass. Need two stories for part of it to allow looking over tops of the trees to the Bay. Double wall idea is perfect.
Awesome Sergei. Really Awesome. I love trees. Currently, I live in a Desert community in Southern California. Not as many trees as I would like and it gets very hot in Summertime. When you are talking about finishes, accessories and such I feel a Woman's touch is required so as to look forward to coming home to a cozy, comfortable, enjoyable, eco-friendly home! When the time is right I just might contact you to help fulfill that dream. Best..
(I'm in the process of designing my new house and I've been assuming I will do exterior insulation so it's interesting to see the double wall method reaching passive house standards. I see some benefits, like being being able to use recycled newspaper insulation which is better for the environment, and making it easier to run utilities. This is making me think.)
Most passive homes are installing appliances that are especially made for these types of homes. However we have sold a few homes that decided to vent the dryer! The air exchanging system does an excellent job of dehumidification as well!
My family has owned the largest solar pool & water heating company in florida for 40 years. I just completed a passive house in colorado and obviously I installed a unit. A heat pump inside the envelope works better in this application because there is almost very a shortage of heat even from a few people being inside at nightime above 35 degrees F.
Сергей, почему не распространено применение кирпичных стен с наружным утеплением или тонких газобетонных стен с таким же утеплением в пассивных домах? Фундамент все равно плитный. Получится сделать монолитное перекрытие (более тихое и теплоемкое), добавляется теплоемкость дома, следовательно получится использовать более дешёвый ночной тариф и температура в течении дня будет стабильная. Прослушал параметры утепления пола и потолка в этом доме.
@@kirill__kirill да а каркас можно утеплять и внутри и снаружи и он будет значительно дешевле т. к. работа очень трудоемкая и если найдёте каменщика её делать то заплатите за свои хотелки столько что навсегда поймёте почему в США строят из дерева
Климат. В Америке землетрясения и кирпич развалится, по этому используется дерево связанное гнущимися гвоздями - при землетрясении деревянное здание гнёт металл гвоздей туда сюда но не падает и стоит на месте. Метал гвоздей гнётся и разрешает деревянному зданию шатать туда сюда и не падать. По этому в Англии и Росссии используют кирпичные дома а в Америке нет.
@@M1911jln by "water" and "insects".......well then, build it in Sahara desert. There, there're only 🦂 and some 🐜. No water, so, the house should last......."indefinitely"? Don't kidd yourself. The climate is changing. Every following year we have floods in places where they were not before, drouts where there were none before, strong winds in places where people didn't know anything about it except for calm breezes and so on. Brutalism is the future: concrete with heavy iron in it, marble and glass. Make your house to be a stronghold not "enveloped" by "moisture safe paper" and woolen walls. These are not protection from the nature. They allow the nature in it's worst representation to enter inside and do horrible things to the inhabitants P.S. these houses are easily installed with eavesdropping gadgets, wright? Well, concrete is not.
@@M1911jln nearly every home is susceptible to damage even one made out of concrete. His questions was about time. That zip system will last about 25 years before the tape starts failing and about 50 years before the sheathing is going bad, those are both assuming a super high performing and well maintained siding is on top
So what makes this worth $750k? How much of that is because of the raw property value? I ask because I live in Buffalo NY where property value is much different. I own a 3000 sqft home fully renovated on 3 acres. It cost me $300k. I can’t imagine buying a smaller home for $750k, efficient or not.
My family is also from western NY and Buffalo (not considering an affluent suburb like Amherst) is one the cheapest cities in the entire country to buy a home. Property taxes are awful, but comparing what you pay to literally anywhere else, isn't really a fair comparison. 750k in my neck of the woods gets you a 25-year old townhouse. Location matters most of all. The average new builder grade home is now over 300k and I guarantee you have a much better home
People who buy this type of concept house spend what your house is worth just one of their cars. This is a luxury concept house for upper middle class people who are buying a second home in Maine or a retirement house. Maybe it’s their third or fifth home currently. The builder never said this is a financially economical of best way to hold for a budget. It’s like comparing a Ford to Porsche.
@@benbogie4178 I see what you mean. Perhaps, with the pressure of the cellulose pushing out this prevents expansion, stretching, of the plastic insulweb, rips, over time and loss of the cellulose. One manufacturer, SIGA, provided tape to promote their product. You recommend leaving the puncture holes alone? I would consider taping as tape is inexpensive, and maybe, Insulweb could tear. I do not know Insulweb. East Coast product?
The reason for the tape is protect the cellulose from falling out. There is a tube that projects into the wall and the dry cellulose is blown in. It is the same way for fiberglass. Difference is cellulose tends to settle. Wet applications are a total mess and if the moisture doesn’t escape in 48 hours mold can grow. I think Jake Bruton had a better idea with a 2X8 wall 24” OC
@@dalenbickenbach9533 first, you’re going to fill the rest of that double stud wall so there’s no need worry about insulation leaking out as it will be buried in more insulation. Second, if cellulose is installed to the proper density then it is “self supporting”, aka- not going to just spill out. You can do as you wish but my point is that it’s just a waste of tape, donated or not.
Thanks for your question Kaiser! This will be truly a passive home, there will be no "traditional" heat source required. However - some buyers may opt to have heat pumps installed, it's a tech-forward home and was designed by an architect in the UK that is now living here locally.
@@sell207 I understand that it requires very little heat, however, what is providing that? Baseboard heaters? Boiler system? The ERV is simply providing conditioned fresh air. Thanks!
@@kaiserw3177 It's probably electric resistance heat in a post-heater as part of the ventilation system. PHI, the original and European Passive House organization, tend to design toward the goal of being able to supply heat via the Zehnder air-exchanger's very low volume of air flow. Given the few figures they did mention, that's my guess.
@@andreycham4797 HRVs with integrated heat pumps are not readily available in the States. The post-heater in the supply side is a guess but I may be wrong. I found a local news article that featured this house and said it would have a heat pump.
What brand are those giant sliding door/windows in the corner of the living room? ...we're building a house in the spring and would love to do something similar!
I've been thinking about this lately. It seems like a good idea but there is literally no way that a house like this will stand up to the test of time. It's impossible to seal it up so good that you'd never have a water leak anywhere and when you do you're going to have a HUGE mess. While this seems like a good idea, I think it's definitely a pipe dream and a way to part folks with more dollars then sense, from their money.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I'd trust an engineer who has experience building passive haus, a build method over 30 years old, before a random guy on UA-cam with a non sensible opinion.
Absolutely no heating system in Maine is impossible. I understand the concept, but absolutely zero heat is not feasible. Good luck whoever is going to try and live in that house!
Sanity check- Just some rough numbers here, because I’m not a builder. R60 walls average. With a 70 degree temperature difference would lose about 3 watts per square meter of heat. It’s a 2000 sq foot home- maybe assume that’s 200 square meters of exterior surface area. That’s 600 watts of heating. A single person puts off 100 watts at rest. So 200 there. A fridge is another 150. So is a chest freezer. You pretty rapidly approach a reasonable amount of heat. Obviously this is stupidly simplified, considering other potential losses. Like opening the door occasionally. But a heater free home isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
Also considering this a proven build standard over 30 years old that they use in coder climates in other parts of the world. Just because you can't wrap your little brain around it doesn't make it "not feasible". This is engineered, its proven, nobody is asking for your uneducated opinion.
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@@timgleason2527 thanks for the great napkin calculations - great for people to learn. Don't forget though that an ERV ventilating air also loses some heat/energy, although I've no idea how much in relation to loses through walls, etc.
"Keeps you private, protected...."? A frame house does that? A situation: the house is near a street/highway whatever. You have guests. With your guests you are sitting in the living room ,telling jokes, laughing etc. All a of a sudden a truck enters in the lobby of the house and through one room enters into the living room continuing in the back of the house. The investigation shows that the truck driver survived a heart attack. The house is not insured. What will you do? Conclusion: forget the "privacy" and "security" from a frame house with net zero emissions of CO2and so on. Take care of the safety and make the house impenetrable fortress in which you will REALLY have privacy and security. From all sorts of misfortune and whatnot
You can break into most American homes with a hatchet or an electric saw or even just a hammer. In America if the police see a new person driving around in these neighborhoods they stop and harass them.
They could have built a greenhouse connected to the South side of their house and foregone the double wall and triple pane windows. Or they could have installed solar on the roof and built a normal house for half the cost per square foot. In reality what they're doing is excruciatingly inane ie claiming CO2 net benefit is a lie compared to the examples I provided above
@@RealityUntold Good luck trying to have this conversation. Americans want things that are cheap and familiar. They want a lot of square feet and can't imagine paying more to get something smaller. It doesn't matter that passive homes have been built successfully in Europe for decades. It doesn't matter that American universities like Cornell and MIT are building passive educational buildings.
I own a very large solar business and all I will say is this. What you are talking about is getting a big discount on gas (before all utilities raise their connection fees and limit sizing) but driving a very inefficient car truck. Comparatively, a home like this has far better mpg but even more importantly, it has dramatically improved air quality, no hot spots or drafty areas, its nearly impervious to bug intrusion and far quieter. If you still want a great deal for your gas, solar on top essentially fixes your cost of living for decades and wouldn’t require massive amounts of batteries to be “off grid”
Please do a revisit after completion. I would love to see the final product.
Would love to see a follow up video when complete! 🙏🌍🌱
I love this so much. My goal is to build an extremely efficient/passive house in upstate NH, VT, or ME in the next 5 years.
Hey Jason! We'd love to follow along with your plan. Keep us posted!
@Brenden Monahan Good luck on your future endeavors!
Hi Jason, I did it in rural Canada. It’s an experience out of this world. The air quality is amazing. the cost of running the house is really low.
What an absolutely stunning area of the world to live in! I wish we had the option to build and live in houses in the middle of a forest here in the uk!
It is stunning! For the UK, is it just that this type of land isn't available, or that there are planning concerns?
@@joeyt8643 Both. There's nowhere near as much forest cover in the uk vs the us and any area that does have forest cover probably wont allow you to build an innovative house like this :(
@@iamactuallyover18 interesting, thanks for the reply!
Buy a rural farm in the UK, plant a ton of pine trees. 7 years later you can have your own personal tiny Forrest. White pines (building lumber) grow very quickly (for trees) and will give you your own little forest if you are serious
I have the perfect location in Blue Hill for a passive solar house. North faces road; south side would face the woods and could be 80% glass. Need two stories for part of it to allow looking over tops of the trees to the Bay. Double wall idea is perfect.
That’s amazing! I’d love to see it 😍🤩
Building a passive house in a hot tropical country like Ghana is my dream. I love the control passive houses provide.
Amazing house for another rich out-of-stater to buy. I'd like to see videos of passive homes built for low income people (like 95% of Mainers).
Look and you can find.
You mean 99 %........and hopefully stays that way !!! could house ten families for the cost of this box.
@@AZ-vt7dt 10 families who'd spend a fortune on electricity and heating like most mainers...
Awesome Sergei. Really Awesome. I love trees. Currently, I live in a Desert community in Southern California. Not as many trees as I would like and it gets very hot in Summertime.
When you are talking about finishes, accessories and such I feel a Woman's touch is required so as to look forward to coming home to a cozy, comfortable, enjoyable, eco-friendly home!
When the time is right I just might contact you to help fulfill that dream. Best..
R100 in the roof. wow. I would love to see how that is achieved.
Me to, or more specifically I'd like to know where they consider roof vs not roof.
Thank you for making this; it's a good primer for people to learn about efficient building design.
(I'm in the process of designing my new house and I've been assuming I will do exterior insulation so it's interesting to see the double wall method reaching passive house standards. I see some benefits, like being being able to use recycled newspaper insulation which is better for the environment, and making it easier to run utilities. This is making me think.)
What about using T-Studs instead of double you have
Next project need to build on @iso-slab system soecific for passive building project.
Great building technology. What's the name of the Polish company that made the windows and doors.
Thanks
Would love to seethe evolution and completion of this project
We are thinking of moving to the area and would love to find a passive house.
Very nice video and content. Thank you.
Is there another page with more of the design details, such as air sealing details?
Or details on the flat roof implementation ?
How do you vent moisture from bath showers?
Clothes dryer?
Most passive homes are installing appliances that are especially made for these types of homes. However we have sold a few homes that decided to vent the dryer! The air exchanging system does an excellent job of dehumidification as well!
Ok... i have a venmar unit that does a nice job but the master shower is too much for it... thanks
What brand is your windows and doors?
For colder climate like Canada Ontario What heating and cooling system you would recommend?
Smart guy and interesting to listen to
Well done ! Is it insulated slab on grade ?
I wonder how much it would sell for.
Sergey Breus -is a great builder!
Why is there a fire in the back yard?
How much. I've been looking for a passive home.
So Fantastic! Have u ever tried any Solar Hot Water?
My family has owned the largest solar pool & water heating company in florida for 40 years. I just completed a passive house in colorado and obviously I installed a unit. A heat pump inside the envelope works better in this application because there is almost very a shortage of heat even from a few people being inside at nightime above 35 degrees F.
Dave2D music queue?
Beautiful.
Молодец. Очень интересный дом.
Very nice! Cost sq/ft??
Сергей, почему не распространено применение кирпичных стен с наружным утеплением или тонких газобетонных стен с таким же утеплением в пассивных домах? Фундамент все равно плитный. Получится сделать монолитное перекрытие (более тихое и теплоемкое), добавляется теплоемкость дома, следовательно получится использовать более дешёвый ночной тариф и температура в течении дня будет стабильная.
Прослушал параметры утепления пола и потолка в этом доме.
Патамучта тут Америка я когда то задал этот вопрос молодым американцам они мне ответили в домах из кирпича живут только бедные люди
@@andreycham4797 где логика? Кирпичный можно утеплить снаружи на любую толщину утеплителя.
@@kirill__kirill да а каркас можно утеплять и внутри и снаружи и он будет значительно дешевле т. к. работа очень трудоемкая и если найдёте каменщика её делать то заплатите за свои хотелки столько что навсегда поймёте почему в США строят из дерева
Климат. В Америке землетрясения и кирпич развалится, по этому используется дерево связанное гнущимися гвоздями - при землетрясении деревянное здание гнёт металл гвоздей туда сюда но не падает и стоит на месте. Метал гвоздей гнётся и разрешает деревянному зданию шатать туда сюда и не падать. По этому в Англии и Росссии используют кирпичные дома а в Америке нет.
Awesome
wonderful!
How long does these houses last normally before it's structural part require attention?
Indefinitely. Unless it is damaged by water or insects, the framing will never need to be repaired.
@@M1911jln by "water" and "insects".......well then, build it in Sahara desert. There, there're only 🦂 and some 🐜. No water, so, the house should last......."indefinitely"?
Don't kidd yourself. The climate is changing. Every following year we have floods in places where they were not before, drouts where there were none before, strong winds in places where people didn't know anything about it except for calm breezes and so on. Brutalism is the future: concrete with heavy iron in it, marble and glass.
Make your house to be a stronghold not "enveloped" by "moisture safe paper" and woolen walls. These are not protection from the nature. They allow the nature in it's worst representation to enter inside and do horrible things to the inhabitants
P.S. these houses are easily installed with eavesdropping gadgets, wright? Well, concrete is not.
@@M1911jln nearly every home is susceptible to damage even one made out of concrete. His questions was about time. That zip system will last about 25 years before the tape starts failing and about 50 years before the sheathing is going bad, those are both assuming a super high performing and well maintained siding is on top
So what makes this worth $750k? How much of that is because of the raw property value? I ask because I live in Buffalo NY where property value is much different. I own a 3000 sqft home fully renovated on 3 acres. It cost me $300k. I can’t imagine buying a smaller home for $750k, efficient or not.
My family is also from western NY and Buffalo (not considering an affluent suburb like Amherst) is one the cheapest cities in the entire country to buy a home. Property taxes are awful, but comparing what you pay to literally anywhere else, isn't really a fair comparison. 750k in my neck of the woods gets you a 25-year old townhouse. Location matters most of all. The average new builder grade home is now over 300k and I guarantee you have a much better home
People who buy this type of concept house spend what your house is worth just one of their cars. This is a luxury concept house for upper middle class people who are buying a second home in Maine or a retirement house. Maybe it’s their third or fifth home currently. The builder never said this is a financially economical of best way to hold for a budget. It’s like comparing a Ford to Porsche.
Why is there tape over the holes where the cellulose was installed?
To seal the places. You do not want air leaks.
@@dalenbickenbach9533 that’s a waste of tape, the insulweb that the cellulose is installed behind is air permeable.
@@benbogie4178 I see what you mean. Perhaps, with the pressure of the cellulose pushing out this prevents expansion, stretching, of the plastic insulweb, rips, over time and loss of the cellulose. One manufacturer, SIGA, provided tape to promote their product. You recommend leaving the puncture holes alone? I would consider taping as tape is inexpensive, and maybe, Insulweb could tear. I do not know Insulweb. East Coast product?
The reason for the tape is protect the cellulose from falling out. There is a tube that projects into the wall and the dry cellulose is blown in. It is the same way for fiberglass. Difference is cellulose tends to settle. Wet applications are a total mess and if the moisture doesn’t escape in 48 hours mold can grow. I think Jake Bruton had a better idea with a 2X8 wall 24” OC
@@dalenbickenbach9533 first, you’re going to fill the rest of that double stud wall so there’s no need worry about insulation leaking out as it will be buried in more insulation. Second, if cellulose is installed to the proper density then it is “self supporting”, aka- not going to just spill out. You can do as you wish but my point is that it’s just a waste of tape, donated or not.
Come build my next house.
What is the main heating source for the house?
Thanks for your question Kaiser! This will be truly a passive home, there will be no "traditional" heat source required. However - some buyers may opt to have heat pumps installed, it's a tech-forward home and was designed by an architect in the UK that is now living here locally.
@@sell207 I understand that it requires very little heat, however, what is providing that? Baseboard heaters? Boiler system? The ERV is simply providing conditioned fresh air. Thanks!
@@kaiserw3177 It's probably electric resistance heat in a post-heater as part of the ventilation system. PHI, the original and European Passive House organization, tend to design toward the goal of being able to supply heat via the Zehnder air-exchanger's very low volume of air flow. Given the few figures they did mention, that's my guess.
@@mattnolette9121 they spent so much money on the house and did not put HRV with heat pump built in ?
@@andreycham4797 HRVs with integrated heat pumps are not readily available in the States. The post-heater in the supply side is a guess but I may be wrong. I found a local news article that featured this house and said it would have a heat pump.
What brand are those giant sliding door/windows in the corner of the living room? ...we're building a house in the spring and would love to do something similar!
We are building a passive house right now in Colorado and are us Alpen Windows out of Colorado.
They are pretty amazing! They are made in Poland, Bertrand. Average R=7.2, triple glazed, T&T ( Tilt and Turn) design, triple gaskets!
@@sell207 thanks, do u know the brand?
@@ttizm the brand is Bertrand
Buy Andersen .................
Здравствуйте , тилтерн один недостак это москитная сетка и установка как реплейсмент вариант :
To keep bugs out, you can have rolling shutters or a retractable screen on the outside if you like.
Solar? Say what?? The house is shaded by trees 🌲. No sun ☀️ in the winter.
I think you and I have the same opinion about this.
There is sun in the winter. Just less of it.
“Fuel poverty “?????? Get my hip waders it is getting deep
The accent suggests that several generations of her ancestors have never been close to fuel poverty. So funny.
What is the point to burn the fire outside and wasting resources?
It looks pretty. Part of the marketing pr
I really liked the look of this but the music is overpowering , why do you think it is a requirement ?
Great feedback! We will take this into account and will chat with our videographer about it! Thanks for the comment!
@@sell207 The music is well balanced, I would leave as is IMO.
@@kaiserw3177 Thanks for the feedback!
@@sell207 I am also building a passiv haus and am really interested in the technical detail .
@@gramos9115 where are you building? We'd love to follow along as well!!
I've been thinking about this lately. It seems like a good idea but there is literally no way that a house like this will stand up to the test of time. It's impossible to seal it up so good that you'd never have a water leak anywhere and when you do you're going to have a HUGE mess. While this seems like a good idea, I think it's definitely a pipe dream and a way to part folks with more dollars then sense, from their money.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I'd trust an engineer who has experience building passive haus, a build method over 30 years old, before a random guy on UA-cam with a non sensible opinion.
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And it can be yours for merely $900 sq ft
The listing says $351 square foot. 2134 sf finished
Absolutely no heating system in Maine is impossible. I understand the concept, but absolutely zero heat is not feasible. Good luck whoever is going to try and live in that house!
Sanity check- Just some rough numbers here, because I’m not a builder. R60 walls average. With a 70 degree temperature difference would lose about 3 watts per square meter of heat. It’s a 2000 sq foot home- maybe assume that’s 200 square meters of exterior surface area. That’s 600 watts of heating. A single person puts off 100 watts at rest. So 200 there. A fridge is another 150. So is a chest freezer. You pretty rapidly approach a reasonable amount of heat.
Obviously this is stupidly simplified, considering other potential losses. Like opening the door occasionally. But a heater free home isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
Also considering this a proven build standard over 30 years old that they use in coder climates in other parts of the world. Just because you can't wrap your little brain around it doesn't make it "not feasible". This is engineered, its proven, nobody is asking for your uneducated opinion.
@@timgleason2527 thanks for the great napkin calculations - great for people to learn. Don't forget though that an ERV ventilating air also loses some heat/energy, although I've no idea how much in relation to loses through walls, etc.
No furnace doesn't mean no heating system. We generally do heat pumps with electric baseboard heat as backup for our net zero homes.
This will be an absolutely stunning house when it's underwater in twenty years.
You don't know much about Maine do you
"Keeps you private, protected...."? A frame house does that?
A situation: the house is near a street/highway whatever. You have guests. With your guests you are sitting in the living room ,telling jokes, laughing etc. All a of a sudden a truck enters in the lobby of the house and through one room enters into the living room continuing in the back of the house. The investigation shows that the truck driver survived a heart attack. The house is not insured. What will you do?
Conclusion: forget the "privacy" and "security" from a frame house with net zero emissions of CO2and so on. Take care of the safety and make the house impenetrable fortress in which you will REALLY have privacy and security. From all sorts of misfortune and whatnot
Too many drugs
smh...
-1 annoying repetitive soundtrack
Rich people
This fellow is full of baloney when claims tilt open door is secure. I have one and when tilted open for ventilation a simple kick will open it.
It's a glass door; security is relative. It doesn't take a whole lot more than a simple kick to break a glass door no matter how it's latched.
You can break into most American homes with a hatchet or an electric saw or even just a hammer. In America if the police see a new person driving around in these neighborhoods they stop and harass them.
This video is a complete joke.
overkill
Also known as "engineered". Passive haus building is over 30 years old. It's the inevitable future to energy conservation.
They could have built a greenhouse connected to the South side of their house and foregone the double wall and triple pane windows.
Or they could have installed solar on the roof and built a normal house for half the cost per square foot.
In reality what they're doing is excruciatingly inane ie claiming CO2 net benefit is a lie compared to the examples I provided above
This is a proven build standard over 30 years old. But your opinion is just that, an opinion.
@@RealityUntold Good luck trying to have this conversation. Americans want things that are cheap and familiar. They want a lot of square feet and can't imagine paying more to get something smaller. It doesn't matter that passive homes have been built successfully in Europe for decades. It doesn't matter that American universities like Cornell and MIT are building passive educational buildings.
I think they tried to use recycled insulation and such
I own a very large solar business and all I will say is this. What you are talking about is getting a big discount on gas (before all utilities raise their connection fees and limit sizing) but driving a very inefficient car truck.
Comparatively, a home like this has far better mpg but even more importantly, it has dramatically improved air quality, no hot spots or drafty areas, its nearly impervious to bug intrusion and far quieter. If you still want a great deal for your gas, solar on top essentially fixes your cost of living for decades and wouldn’t require massive amounts of batteries to be “off grid”