Construyendo la casa de nuestros sueños basada en el estándar Passivhaus
To the untrained eye, one might only think of windows from an aesthetic point of view, but this aspect of a house is far more important than one may realise. Windows are one of the main points of energy loss in a traditional house, and they are also a source of condensation in winter due… Continue reading Energy efficient windows – a necessary investment
For those of you that have followed our blog from the start, you may be surprised to see that we are still in the process of “wrapping up” the house. Parts 1 (see post here) and 2 (see post here) on this topic showed how we insulated the foundations, slab and walls of the house… Continue reading Insulating the house (part 3)
One of the first questions we asked ourselves when we started to design our house was “what materials will we use?”. In South Africa, the predominant building material is bricks, but here in Chile there is a far greater variety from wood to bricks to concrete. Coming from a country where wooden houses are not… Continue reading And then there were walls
