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Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

tribler wrote: post #21
chrisco255 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He claimed to have spent 80K euros on it 10 years ago. No idea what prices would be in the States. But I'm guessing that 80K figure is for the glass alone.

It looks great. 80k investment to go from 9 months of heating to 6 months. Expensive project, wonder if solar would have yielded more in the north.

Isn't a green house a solar collector in some way? They get their heat from the sun, and their main mechanism is simply trapping it in a closed environment.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by mevile »

telotortium wrote: post #12
jhloa2 wrote: post #6

I wonder if this has a negative effect on the amount of fresh air that they get

No reason a ventilation fan can't be installed - that's standard on modern air-conditioned and insulated houses (a "whole-house fan") precisely in order to rotate the air.

That might help, but it's not quite the same as a nice summer breeze flowing through your house.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by Max-q »

etaty wrote: post #34

Great but they should avoid burning wood in highly populated area. Because it is generating a lot of small particules, worse than a car.

Not when using a modern burner that circulates the gasses until they are completely burned. If it is one thing we know in Scandinavia, it is burning wood efficiently.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by acomjean »

mjevans wrote: post #7
otachack wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the warmth of a traditional greenhouse melt snow from the roof?

I would assume it must simply remain warm enough, while being sloped enough and continuously bleeding enough heat to achieve the next step, to melt a lubricating layer of water from the contact ice and allow it to easily slide off.

I think the slope helps a lot. If you look at a lot of homes in areas that get a lot of snow, they’re sloped so the snow slides off. Glass would probably help this too.

My parents owned a flat roof home briefly and had to shovel it.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by DavidAdams »

mevile wrote: post #35
telotortium wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No reason a ventilation fan can't be installed - that's standard on modern air-conditioned and insulated houses (a "whole-house fan") precisely in order to rotate the air.

That might help, but it's not quite the same as a nice summer breeze flowing through your house.

In the summer, the greenhouse opens up.
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