Sunday, March 21, 2010

Jobs At Silvercity Brampton

Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier

With the experience of the (hopefully) last winter, we set out to improve our passive house. In particular, our office in the EC has been found during the winter as very cool (and from the front door I had already reported).
What was more natural than a (further) set of to have thermography images create. And if you're at it for the same security, the "great program" - that is one other blower door test (the now fourth).
The sobering results are quickly summarized:
  • The front door (special thermography recording before installation of the fan) may have become by the last repair of the manufacturer much closer, but there is still a place where passing moves it significantly between the door frame and door leaf . With the addition we hope to locate the problem better, and I can fix.
  • The air leak has worsened compared to the last measurement easy. The averaged Value is now (measured in the use of state) at 0.97 h ^ -1 and that 61% of the nominal value of 0.60 (which was planned on the basis of which include the heating system). As a vulnerability (in addition to the well-known and still partly existing problems in the wall connections of windows) have, surprisingly, the resulting window profiles themselves, which showed no abnormalities at the last measurement.

So we are unfortunately back in the repair mode and have now with the architect, builder window and door manufacturer conducted a serious talk and set a deadline for written explanation on how to sustainably because the identified weaknesses zu beheben gedenkt. Wir sind jedenfalls nicht bereit, dauerhaft ein Haus zu bewohnen, welches die vertraglich zugesicherten Eigenschaften in einem solchen Maße verfehlt.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Action Replay Pokemon In Party Shiny

Fortsetzung folgt

Ich kann noch nicht zuviel verraten, aber soviel sei gesagt: Ab ca. Mitte März geht es hier weiter mit Neuigkeiten rund um das Thema "Passivhaus" :-)
Bis dahin stehe ich allen angehenden Passivhausbauherren gerne mit unseren Erfahrungen zur Seite.

Irish House Cad Plans

Haustür

Mittlerweile war der Hersteller (nicht: der ausführende Fensterbauer) zu einer Nachbesserung hier und hat - neben anderen Dichtungen - auch das Getriebe gewechselt (die Tuer ist jetzt im nicht verschlossenen Zustand an 3 Stellen fixiert statt wie zuvor only one). Subjectively, the door is now much closer than before, when I also imagine that they are still not very tight.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Does Denise Milani Have Real Breasts

Frohe Weihnachten

The Advent quiet days are also the occasion for us to let the previous year pass in review and to draw a preliminary conclusion about our passive house.
The main conclusion first: We like our house still :-)
Although in principle the construction phase, of course, was exhausting, but the bottom line is no more wrong than any previous construction also. However, there are still some open issues, even more than 6 months after moving
  • The front door is still leaking, several attempts to rectify the window manufacturer had only limited success. A few days ago, we could even ice on the inside (!) Remove the door, and as our faith then stops but that this is the "current state of the art" is. (See photo at end of post)

  • We are currently discussing with all parties involved (engineers, architects, heating engineers) the fact that when turned on the auxiliary heating vent the furnace in continuous runs. We have come across some discrepancies between the original concept of the engineer and the final built-in components and just to clarify the process of how the built-in components really are "equivalent" or just not. Sorry, do not behave all parties involved in the discussion particularly cooperative, so we now own (inevitably) become by self-study to experts in constant value control valves ...

  • is the exhaust valve of the oven for about 4 days when you turn off strange cracking noises - we will probably again need to consult the customer service

The extreme cold in the past week, our pellet consumption in the meantime to about 15 kg per days has increased, up to date but slightly decreased. Whether all this is in the realm of what would be expected by the theoretical calculations in advance, I am now completely stumped and werde wohl erst nach der kompletten Heizsaison mal nachrechnen.