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Old 10-29-12, 11:09 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
The passive house concept really isn't that difficult. It has two basic principles:

1) air seal REALLY well
2) insulate really well (and eliminate thermal bridging)

If you do those two things you'll be 90% of the way to passive.
ok I was thinking under the ground passive..

I planned on air sealing really really well along with insulation.
For thermal bridging do you mean to separate the out side of the house from the inside ? with insulated contact points ?

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