EcoRenovator  

Go Back   EcoRenovator > Improvements > Solar Heating
Advanced Search
 


Blog 60+ Home Energy Saving Tips Recent Posts Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read


Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 09-30-09, 11:36 PM   #31
Christ
Apprentice EcoRenovator
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 123
Thanks: 14
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
Default

Oh, it's lots of work, sure... but it's so much better when you can sit back, enjoy your work, and think to yourself: "I did that."

Do you not agree?

Christ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-01-09, 07:12 AM   #32
Daox
Administrator
 
Daox's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germantown, WI
Posts: 5,525
Thanks: 1,162
Thanked 374 Times in 305 Posts
Default

Oh, definitly. My cousin recently did a tiled entry way in his house. He cut the tile to kind of swerve like a small stream, and then put in broken slate pieces. He broke the slate himself and had to sort through the pieces. It took him forever to get done, but it really does look great.
__________________
Current project -
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
&
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Daox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-01-09, 11:31 AM   #33
Christ
Apprentice EcoRenovator
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 123
Thanks: 14
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
Default

I bet that looks sweet...

With your Cousin's permission, I'd like to see a picture of it.
Christ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-10, 02:59 AM   #34
kbhale
Helper EcoRenovator
 
kbhale's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Evansville IN
Posts: 88
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
Default

Ok. Your sun room heat rises. Put Pex tubing on the ceiling. Maybe a couple runs with the crown molding to hide it. Run fluid threw it. Collect the heat and transfer it to another part of the house or store it.

Get several barrels put plywood on the barrels. Table like. Fabric stapled around three sides to hide the barrels. no fabric between sun and barrel. Heat sink

Grow hydroponic lettuce, salad greens and cold weather vegetables, on top of the barrels. Most salad greens sell for $5-$6 dollars a pound in my area.

Flat white reflects light. Flat black adsorbs.

Make sure that ceilling is well insulated.



AcrylicStormWindow

New Page 1

BubbleWrap

Building An "Interior Storm Window" To Reduce Draftiness
kbhale is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-10, 07:10 AM   #35
Daox
Administrator
 
Daox's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germantown, WI
Posts: 5,525
Thanks: 1,162
Thanked 374 Times in 305 Posts
Default

Interior storm windows NEED to be done to this room. The windows are nice thermal panes, but once the sun goes down it does cool down fast in the room still. It would be great to have interior storm windows along with some form of insulating shade/curtain.
__________________
Current project -
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
&
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Daox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-15-10, 11:44 PM   #36
bennelson
Home-Wrecker
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: SE Wisconsin
Posts: 546
Thanks: 3
Thanked 165 Times in 96 Posts
Default

A couple of black barrels full of water might do quite a bit of heating.

It would be interesting to have one with a thermometer on it and check it at various times of the day and night.

I have a 30 gallon black food grade barrel with matching O-Ring lid if you want to try it.

I do also like the idea of some solar hot water panels on the roof there.
I have heard of people with similar roof lines arranging hot water or PV panels so that any light that bounces off them gets reflected right into that second-story window. That way you get your solar collection AND some additional direct gain.

In an architectual presentation I watched a few years ago, the speaker pointed out in a photograph of how specifically WHITE gravel was used outside a building so that it would reflect indirect light into the building for an airy feel.

I do have some of those 2'x2' plastic mirrors. I wonder what kind of difference it would make to set a few of those on the roof of the sunroom to reflect additional light into the upstairs windows. I know snow accumulation would be a problem, but even snow works as a reflector as well.

Last I checked, my cousin still had those solar hot water panels to rehab. We should play around with one of those in your sunroom.
__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
bennelson is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-17-10, 07:36 AM   #37
Daox
Administrator
 
Daox's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germantown, WI
Posts: 5,525
Thanks: 1,162
Thanked 374 Times in 305 Posts
Default

Yeah, I'd love to get some hot water panels up there.
__________________
Current project -
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
&
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Daox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-17-15, 11:18 AM   #38
MarkM66
Helper EcoRenovator
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: st.louis
Posts: 33
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
Default

Bringing back an old one. Ever do anything else to your sunroom to help retain heat?

Has the room help in heating your house?
MarkM66 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-17-15, 12:20 PM   #39
Daox
Administrator
 
Daox's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germantown, WI
Posts: 5,525
Thanks: 1,162
Thanked 374 Times in 305 Posts
Default

No, I really haven't. I do manage the honeycomb blinds fairly methodically. There can be some pretty good heat gain from all the windows. On a sunny day its always warmer in there.

I still really want to do the interior storms. They just have to be remade at a different size to fit the window opening, and I'm buried in other projects at the moment.

__________________
Current project -
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
&
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Daox is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Tags
passive solar, thermal mass

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:47 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Ad Management by RedTyger
Inactive Reminders By Icora Web Design