Halifax County, NS

Tantallon

Keywords: passive

Year Built:

1986

Size:

2200 sq ft, 2.5 baths, 4 bedrooms.

Energy Percents:

20% passive, 20% active, 60% external

External Sources:

Wood: 3.5 cords,

Cost & Value:

Cost: 185000, Assessed value: 500000

Purpose

To create an energy efficient home which suited our needs for space and functionality and also to blend into the landscape and impose as little as possible.

Economics & Performance

Our heating bill is less than $400 per year but that includes some sweat equity as we buy our wood in 8 ft lengths and cut and split it ourselves

Lot Characteristics

one and a half acre lot with a gentle slope north to a sand beach and the ocean

Description

Don Roscoe design. Cedar clad story and a half with wood heat as primary and electric forced air as backup heat source. Solar panels for domestic hot water are mounted off the roof.

Suppliers

Thermo Dynamics for the solar panels

Comments

Our house is 20 years old (built in 86) The new Roscoe houses contain more enhanced technology and they have benefitted from the experiences of all the earlier builds

Viewing

mdphoto@eastlink.ca or 826 2008

What would we do different?

Pay more attention to the joint between the floor and the concrete walls as we have had some problems with water intrusion. The problems are fixable but annoying