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Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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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.

Yes, but ventilating the house itself plus the surrounding greenhouse is much more expensive than just ventilating the house itself. Reason being that the volume of air is much larger.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

#93
post #57

This house was the subject of a Kirsten Dirksen video in 2015: https://youtube.com/watch?v=30ghnDOFbNQ

I can't recommend Kirsten Dirksen's channel enough to people interested in architecture, energy efficiency, tiny homes, 'green' construction, etc. Literally hundreds of hours of high-quality content - I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such cool things. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsElQQt_gCZ9LgnW-7v-cQ Some other favorites: Baubotanik shapes living…

As well as having great content, the format of her videos is also top-notch. It's way too common to see architecture videos where the camera won't linger more than 5 seconds on anything else than some random zoomed-up composition.

In her videos, you can actually appreciate and immerse yourself in the spaces and the various details. The videos are usually between 10 and 20 minutes and she's not afraid to push it further if there's enough content.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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post #78
post #6

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

Fresh air is created by plants and CO2 is taken from the air by plants, a greenhouse has plants so... probably a good amount of oxigen there Molds are a problem and there is another, for rodents, mosquitos and cockroaches this is a dream made true. Spiders can take mosquitos easily, but the other two will need a plan

I imagine it's not much different from a regular residential greenhouse, in which case the plan is to throw a sufficient number of cats in there.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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I always thought this would be an interesting experiment to do this over a whole neighbourhood

There was a Stephen King story about that. Turns out it leads to the collapse of law and order and lots of people die.

Do you recall which story that was? Sounds like a fun read.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

#96
The title should say 2015. This is just a spammy article that took a 2015 youtube video, described it and took some screenshots.

I remember this when I saw it in 2015. The whole project is dumb. It's extremely expensive, they will never break even on the heating costs. It's completely unprotected from hail. The ventilation is horrible. Humidity is high.

Sure, it's creative and fun, but let's not paint it as groundbreaking.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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post #94
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fresh air is created by plants and CO2 is taken from the air by plants, a greenhouse has plants so... probably a good amount of oxigen there Molds are a problem and there is another, for rodents, mosquitos and cockroaches this is a dream made true. Spiders can take mosquitos easily, but the other two will need a plan

I imagine it's not much different from a regular residential greenhouse, in which case the plan is to throw a sufficient number of cats in there.

Not sure people in glass houses should be throwing cats.

Mine would love that environment I’m sure though.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

#100
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also wonder if the increased humidity increases the chance for mold.

Most greenhouses have ventilation windows, often using a wax piston to automatically open/close windows based on the temperature.

Had never seen a wax piston, that’s a tremendously elegant design.
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