04 May 2013. Well it would have been amazing to achieve Passivhaus - high aspirations indeed - but it proved to be totally beyond the budget. The design takes some of the principles appropriate to a low budget self build.
Things have moved on considerably since my last post. Time to nail my colours to the mast, put my money where my mouth is and trot out a few metaphors. Amelie will now be certified to the german Passivhaus standards, which I'm told will be a world first for a houseboat. Without getting too buried in the techers this focuses on retaining energy by exceptionally high levels of insulation, air tightness and recovering heat from extracted air. Put simply: Use less. How incredibly sensible. The spray men are coming on the 23rd to super-insulate the steel hull structure with foam which will also prevent condensation forming on the inside of the hull (which is a bad, leading to sinking thing). So all go here. Very clever laser scanner and setting out toy arrived yesterday. More on that very soon.
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