It’s been a few weeks since my last update on the 78 Main St Renovation, and a lot has changed. Don Robert’s crew (Wayne, Aaron, and Bruce) have almost completed the framing of the new roof and walls within the old structure. David Dow (Double D Electric) has a permanent electrical connection to the house [...]
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LEED-H (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a certification program for residential homes to promote best practices in energy conservation, land and water use, air quality, and education in building construction. (Here is an earlier blog on LEED as it applies to 78 Main St, our renovation project). This week I held a LEED-H [...]
Solar Storage tank Unfortunately we had a problem with the webcam and didn’t get any time-lapse pictures of the second day of building the solar storage tank (see Thermal storage tank, part 1 from the first day). We did get some video footage and a few stills, see below. The first day was the [...]
Cutting through Permits are in hand! No more excuses — it’s time to start making some progress on our 78 Main St renovation! Since this house is on the Mascoma River, and we want to add a garage, a driveway and a solar storage tank (excavation required), we needed a bunch of permits including the NH [...] BTUs from the Sun At the end of last week we had a good meeting with Murphy’s Cell-Tech, our energy consultant, who has done the thermal modeling for our house to determine the number of BTUs entering and leaving. The people involved in the model included experts in insulation, thermal seal of the building, [...] 78 Main, Leviston House My husband and I bought the shell of a house on Mascoma River and we are starting the renovation plans for both the store and our residence. This was the site of the ‘Leviston House’, built in 1858 and the associated Tannery which was documented both in pictures and books about [...] Friday, June 12th, my husband and I closed on a house that will become our home AND the new home of Enfield Energy Emporium! It is at 78 Main Street, Enfield — just a few doors down from the current location of the store. It is just a shell of a building so we have [...]
Solar Evacuated tubes The building that I am hoping to lease for my store, the Enfield Energy Emporium, is called the Leviston House, 78 Main St in Enfield, NH. I am excited to be involved in discussions about what it takes for this to be a zero energy building (ZEB). Wikipedia defines a zero energy [...] About a year ago I was on a business trip to Chicago and saw that there was a ‘Smart Home‘ on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. Since I had a few hours to kill and was very interested in the idea, I went to visit it. Michelle Kauffman’s Smart Home |
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