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bond___vagabond t1_j6o425k wrote

Reply to comment by Sweendogoflove in Really want to build a house like this. Passive home stays at 70 degrees in Maine w/o furnace. by Twigglesnix

Some joke about, if you are 5-10 years out, you should start scheduling now, tradespeople in new England are.pretty slammed, lol.

I've been interested in passive solar for decades, ever since I read an old backwoods home magazine article, about a couple who built one in northern Michigan, that was designed to store a years thermal energy so it averaged out the yearly temp, not the daily. This article has lit a fire under me to do more on it. Been thinking how to convert my house here in Vermont.

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woodstove7 t1_j6o6wrp wrote

Was this the home that had the basement full of sand or something that stores the heat from the summer in some way?

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