 Find out how to heat your house in the winter using the sun.
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Using Structural Insulated Panels (SIP)
A new Green Building material has just been introduced to me, Structural Insulated Panels (SIP). This form of building uses OSB (oriented strand board) and EPS (expanded polystyrene) to create the walls of buildings and homes instead of the conventional Stick Frame design. |
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Recently I had thoughts of how I can enclose my patio to make a solar room for our house. This is the initial concept, and further installments of the design and the building of it will soon follow. |
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Concrete slabs, thin slabs and metal plates offer different ways of routing radiant heat underneath every floor in the home
Hydronic Radiant-Floor Heating has been in use for some time now. Hydronic Radiant-Floor Heating is the use of hot water passing through tubing in the floor to warm your home. Originally the tubing was made of copper, until the costs now to use copper has gotten very expensive. Now a polymer tubing referred to as PEX is used. |
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Letting the Sun Heat Your Home
Passive Solar Heating is a very easy to understand concept. Basically it is using the free heat produced by the sun to heat your home. Passive solar heating is best accomplished if you are doing a new build or the house you live in faces true North or solar North (magnetic North is slightly off from true North depending upon where you live). |
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Solar Heating 
