Not exact matches
Once, when I was a pastor in Montana, I was
outside by my woodpile (we use wood to
heat our
houses in Montana) talking with a man about all
of this, and he wasn't persuaded.
If there are
heated disagreements, suggest people dealing with them
outside of the
house.
All
of the kids in our neighborhood are suddenly
outside again, after being holed up away from the
heat (or at the pool) for the summer, and they all run a muck between the various
houses with the parents chatting nearby.
My slow cooker gets lots
of use because not only does it cook a great meal without
heating up the whole kitchen (or the whole
house) but because the warm weather months are often the busiest on the homestead, I can work all day
outside and come in to a meal waiting for me.
Truthfully, pumpkin is something that's had in my
house year - round — it's always in season so it's not odd to see us having pumpkin soup in July (let's just forget about the
heat of outside).
The students are also looking at model
housing kits, and the
heat sources and transfers inside and
outside of the model, he adds.
Install a wind block inside the
house so the dog can use the
heat of its own body to warm up the area if it is really cold and windy
outside.
After nightfall locals sits
outside their
houses conversing with the neighbors and cooling off in the
heat of this tropical city.
For instance in the winter when it is cold
outside the heater inside the
house warms up the inside face
of the block and retains the very
heat that you paid for your furnace to create.
Same thing happens with AC except in reverse, the AC unit turns on to pump
heat from inside to
outside and more insulation delays the flow
of heat back into your
house.
Heating and hot water are provided by an air - to - water
heat pump system in each
house, which consists
of a NIBE F2040 outdoor unit (above) that converts
heat from the air
outside, and a VVM320 indoor unit (top) that distributes this
heat in the most efficient way.
Outdoor units serve as the collector for air source
heat pumps, including clockwise from above left, units from Mitsubishi and Panasonic (installed as part
of Tipperary Energy Agency's SuperHomes retrofit scheme), CTC (an illustration showing the inner workings), and a Thermia unit
outside Ireland's first certified passive
house retrofit, in Salthill, Co..
When I lived with my parents in New Mexico from 1956 to 1962, I learned that we cooled our
house in the summer by adding
heat energy brought in from
outside, i.e., I figured out the difference between
heat energy and temperature by puzzling over the working
of the evaporative air conditioner on the roof
of our
house.
A rough
heat loss calculation using our Home Heat Loss Calculator indicates that the heat loss for the house is about 233 BTU per hour for each degree F of difference between the inside and outside temperatu
heat loss calculation using our Home
Heat Loss Calculator indicates that the heat loss for the house is about 233 BTU per hour for each degree F of difference between the inside and outside temperatu
Heat Loss Calculator indicates that the
heat loss for the house is about 233 BTU per hour for each degree F of difference between the inside and outside temperatu
heat loss for the
house is about 233 BTU per hour for each degree F
of difference between the inside and
outside temperatures.
«We dry two loads
of laundry overnight without going
outside,» says Nick, adding that the returned energy from the wash — with warm wet clothes — is going back into the
heat recovery system — so being retained in the
house or used to generate hot water.
1 The Rochestown
House flats prior to the refurbishment; 2 aerated concrete blocks were chosen to form new build elements, including a new third storey that allows for more generous apartment sizes; 3 new triple - glazed windows were installed
outside the masonry layer so that the external insulation could wrap around them, and help prevent thermal bridging; 4 the airtightness layer was moved to the
outside of the structure by taping the joints
of the existing concrete panels, then extending that tape up onto the aerated blocks in the new floor; 5 Aerobord platinum EPS external insulation being fitted to the original concrete panel walls; 6 & 7 the new window frames visible here in the external insulation layer, including Rockwool fire breaks; 8 openings for exhaust and supply intakes for the new Zehnder
heat recovery ventilation system, seen here prior to being insulated and airtightened; 9 installation
of the Bauder bitumen roofing membrane.
Because no cold or
heat from the
outside can get through, the internal walls and surfaces
of a passive
house — even the windows — are within a few degrees
of the air temperature
of the room.
The stovepipe rises through the interior
of the
house to maximally harvest
heat energy before smoke is exhausted
outside.
Dog Parker is essentially a dog
house that's set up
outside of a store so owners don't have to leave their dog in the
heat or cold, or risk some nefarious passerby from untying their dog.
He had a bit
of a rough transition to our new
house (I left him unattended for several weeks
outside while we were moving in the
heat of the summer and many
of his leaves turned brown and crunchy).