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Originally Posted by randen
Evel
Great project and its good your planning a home on a clean slate. I have been living with solar hot water system with a geo-thermal back-up. Its working extremely well. With the results I've had here in Canada its entirely possible to heat the home with little back-up heat.
I would suggest instead of the 2 x 6 construction investigate the foam blocks with concrete & Re-enforcement steel bar poured in the center.
Randen
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Thanks Randen.
I did some research on wall types and a big factor in this wall construction was that I can get it framed cheaper by a framing crew without too much confusion on their part.
Also this study seems to show this wall design yeilds a fairly high R factor.
http://www.buildingscience.com/docum...t-high-r-walls