Today we had a meeting with our energy consultants (in balance green) whom will provide what we call the Title 24 report for our plan submission. “Title 24” actually refers to the whole building code of California, which part 6 (of 12) is about energy. I know next to nothing so I’m drinking from the fire hose here. The meeting resulted in some good notes that we have a lot of work to do still on plans for a “root cellar” (a basement).
- need need water proofing detail (need this too for a postmortem meeting with Clay Knight)
- Design for air circulation based on moisture
- insulation from the climate controlled home
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Additionally a large topic on R values (thermal resistance or insulation). I was thinking insulation was easy and done. Last time we simply just hung batted insulation… not likely this time. Rigid insulation (mainly as moisture barrier for OSB and outside), blown in insulation, or foam, etc. Looks like we will likely be going with a blown in insulation based on fiberglass. Product “Optima“.
Heating and cooling got messy as a topic. I think we haven’t been serious enough on the topic in our tempered climate. Cooling is not typically installed except for the very posh locations. I will admit some of the recent heat waves though have had my questioning. For heating, I’ve been negligent in thinking about it. We have been teasing the idea of radiant flooring, which for me was really a posh, sexy, cool feature. Sure it could be the heating for the house… but we haven’t been careful enough for a design to it. We have a basement that needs to be separated (insulated) from it and an upper floor that we haven’t designed to support a thermal mass. Good friends in town have a radiant system they installed and vouch for it more or less, but only if they install it. The cost of having someone else do it wouldn’t be worth the return. Again we are in a mild area when it comes to exterior climate. The take away from the meeting was to look at “mini splits” for a heating and cooling solution (heat pumps). Also some ERV units. At the moment we have some difficulty in finding a mini split product that visually fits (that is mostly un-noticed).
I’ve been excited, but behind in my planning, for a rain harvesting solution. I’m thinking big with a large tank in the ground, but the unknown costs to install are damning. From the meeting I need to look into some alternates to large fixed tanks like a hidden “water bed” storage vessel. This is dependent on having an area to hide said “water bed”. Also, maybe a really good grey water filtration system is a better investment. The gimmick is that historical rain averages are wack and the last ten years have shown how unreliable a rain harvesting system would be (yet to be investigated by myself). Yet, we know that we will consume water and flush it towards the sewer system and if large portions of this can be cleaned (as it isn’t that dirty) and diverted to the landscape instead… we can grow our fruit and veggies and wash them too!
So much to still research and plan, but at least the meeting was motivational.