Wow. I just ran across this post while searching for something else entirely. Oddly enough a friend of mine made this house. He lives right around the corner from me. A lot of the results from the house are due to the frugality of the woman who owns it. Like she's pretty fastidious about closing the shutters at night. My friend told me that last winter in February, which was pretty cold this last year, she went away for a week, turned the heat off entirely and when she came back seven days later the house was 59 degrees. This nearly drove me to distraction since at the time I was paying about $100 a month to keep my house at about 59! The house does have crazy triple pane windows but my friend said that if it were his house he'd put double pane windows in and just build inserts for $20 each which add two more panes.
Oh one other thing: R 30 under the slab and R 100 something in the ceiling. She said it only cost $300 more to take the blow to 30" so why not?
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