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Growing up in that part of Canada I have some worries about that flat roof. "Rural BC north of Whistler" is the sort of area to expect snow, and structures need to be designed to clear said snow...
As someone else pointed out, even your roof holds up, the water is likely to pool somewhere and eventually the water gets in.
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400A?! My house can make do with 60A, and my previous one with 40A Do they use 350A to heat a swimming pool? Talk about a waste of energy.
One space heater is 12-15 amps. I can't count how many people I've had to explain that to as they scratched their heads why they keep tripping the circuit breaker in the winter. Also lesser know fact: A circuit breaker doesn't cut off at the rated amperage. It cuts off when it spikes above that amperage. When the current is steady, you can blow past the limit, but one little wobble and it will finally trip. "I wasn't…
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it _looks_ like its carborised, ie slightly burnt, so it should last pretty well.
The exterior does look like shou sugi ban wood which (done properly) should indeed last for a long time.
Thanks for posting this. It’s a beautiful house. I’m sorry for all the negativity.
It's just another nice house, there's nothing interesting about the house build. No real construction details. It is "modern" in architecture, but makes a lot of aesthetic choices over function (flat roof, no overhangs, a heated pool in a cold climate).
First comment from my partner was “I don’t know if this is the Parasite house of an Apple Store” :-). But really, so many weird decisions here that make no sense: why would you put your kid’s bed next to your bedroom in a new build? Why the bathrooms next to the bedrooms for your kid? Why cement floors and no floor heating? How did you end up at 400A/96kw of service (my car charges slower than that!). Why not buildin…
He is a general contractor who did or oversaw almost all of the work himself. It covers everything from finding land, to prepping it, goes into a tremendous amount of detail about framing, and concrete work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4L_aJ1rV4&list=PLRZePj70B4...
Seriously cannot recommend this enough. It's a treasure that he created all of this and put it onto youtube for free.
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One space heater is 12-15 amps. I can't count how many people I've had to explain that to as they scratched their heads why they keep tripping the circuit breaker in the winter. Also lesser know fact: A circuit breaker doesn't cut off at the rated amperage. It cuts off when it spikes above that amperage. When the current is steady, you can blow past the limit, but one little wobble and it will finally trip. "I wasn't…
Space heaters are incredibly inefficient, though. You could almost heat the whole house with the same energy using a heat pump.
Heat pumps are limited by how cold and humid it is outside. The coils freeze up and they have to cycle to melt it off. It's not particularly cold in Vancouver but it is definitely humid. I'm not sure where the triple point is.
The way to do this if you're not wealthy is to get a cheapo plot of land on the Oregon/Washington coast ($<100k for up to .5 acres) and put a manufactured home on it. It's way simpler, cheaper, and the construction on manufactured homes has improved a lot over the years (they're framed with 2x6s to survive transport, and this makes them sturdier and better insulated than most traditional houses). I did it and it's be…
The manufactured home thing is really interesting. Do you have more information regarding that? I Googled a bit and found much info about "Mobile home", is it the same thing?