OUR SOLAR HOME
An ebook about a Colorado solar home
The unique concepts presented
in this ebook will help you design any solar home!!!
by Mike and Lisa Kraft
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Our Solar Home will offer you some amazing ideas for building
any solar design. It takes anyone, from solar beginner to solar
novice, and walks them through the simple and more complex parts of
solar design, when building a home. Our Solar Home is a plan of a solar house that was designed and
built in Colorado. The home was built in 1981 around the passive solar
model, and the book includes pictures of what the house looked like
when it was built, and what it
looks like
today, nearly 25 years later!
From the book..."Our solar home was actually started in the Spring of
1979 with a growing concern for future energy costs and the need for
more room, as our family was also growing. We did lots of looking,
attended seminars, took home tours, read books, and supplemented it
all with a couple of classes...The more we learned, the more convinced
we became that the key was (and is) to use as much passive solar
heating as possible in our plan...We are very excited about and
grateful for what we have been able to accomplish, and will be happy
to share whatever solar knowledge we have and are continuing to gain."
In this book, you will learn how to
incorporate the following into your solar plans:
- overhangs to protect against
summer sun
- solar water heating
-
passive solar flooring and heating
- window design and layout to
maximize solar efficiency
- insulation
- draping/shades
Here are a few examples of graphics pages from Our Solar Home.
The above are all clickable,
but bear in mind
that the writing and graphics are much clearer in the book.
This is an awesome
one-of-a-kind plan for a unique solar home, and includes
hundreds of concepts which can be incorporated into the design of any
solar plan.
Some examples of comments in Our
Solar Home:
o We
didn’t follow all of the Passive Solar design rules exactly because we
didn’t want a house of fanatical design. The adjustments we made
allow our home to look fairly traditional, however, the house
calculates out to achieve approximately 70% of its’ winter heating and
almost all of it's summer cooling needs directly from the Sun, once
all of the elements are in place.
o Every
living area, except for the recreation level sink area, has a natural
lighting source. We
don’t need to use any energy turning on lights during daylight hours.
o The
house is totally electric as we chose not to have propane trucked in
and in 1982 we were still ‘out in the country’. At that point,
natural gas lines were simply not available. The ‘traditional’ back-up
heating system is an electric radiant film located in the ceilings
behind standard drywall. Each living area has its own thermostat, 13
in all, which allows us to control the temperature (and energy use)
throughout the house as we desire and need to.
We chose this type of backup
electrical heating system because it works on the same principles as
Sunshine. In other words as the infrared rays strike an object
they are converted into heat. By utilizing this type of system we
avoid unwanted moving air (drafts) and also contribute to / leverage
the collection and storage capabilities of the mass of the materials
used in the house.
o Initially
we were going to build our Active solar domestic hot water system.
However, time & personal physical energy just ran out. To those who
might question whether a solar heated domestic water system really
works, we can only say that we
generally shut off the traditional water heater somewhere around June
1st until about September 15th and our family never runs out of
hot water.
So should you buy
Our Solar Home?
Ask yourself the
following:
-
Do I want to save money?
Do I want to let my home be an energy collector (If you answer
no, you are saying that you would prefer your house to be an energy
drain, because you are letting your house continue to suck on your
finances.)
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Do I want to learn about concepts that
any person can, and should, incorporate into any home design.
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Do I want to learn how the sun is the
best way to both heat and cool my home. How is that possible?
If you answered yes to ANY of the above
questions, you should definitely spend the $21.95 to buy Our
Solar Home. It is well worth it for what you will learn
and be able to put into practice.
Purchase Our Solar Home today at a discounted plan rate!
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Mike and Lisa Kraft wanted to add
pictures to this page of their solar home, and pictures of their
family enjoying their solar home. You can see in the pictures
that a solar home can be designed like any other home, as a place of
comfort, protection, gathering, warmth, health, fun, and lifestyle.
One of the differences in building solar
is that you are using the sun to create warmth and light, leaving you
more money saved in electricity costs to spend on things that really
matter, like spending time with family. Plus, Lisa says (and we
agree), "There is nothing better than lying in a sun-filled room,
letting your body heat up using the sun on a cold fall or winter day!"
Purchase this Colorado solar home plan today.
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$21.95
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