dhaslam, My family has quite a bit of Irish heritage.
My daughter is Michelle Kathleen, son is Sean Patrick, his new son is Liam Patrick.
I hope to someday visit your lovely country.
The house I live in now has a mass storage under the 24' x 46' basement slab. 2' of earth on top of 6" XPS with a loop of 1,000' 1" poly pipe. + a 1200 gallon burried insulated tank, solar heated.
Sounded good at the time but was a waste of money.
When I found that it was uncontrollable, I stopped using it & took apart the solar array. When the basement got hot for weeks at a time, the only relief was opening all the windows.
On the new house, I may use solar heat of the earth over the pipe field?
I would cover the flat ground with dark gravel or coke oven cinders.
I have 30 or so 3' x 7' double glass sliding door units. Place the glass on pressure treated 2x4 rack secured in place just above the dark surface.
I worry about Deer & Elk walking on it.
BBP
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