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> No AC and wood heating are going to be a hard sell. (I am the author) Sorry I don't make it super clear in Part 1: I have a 500 gallon propane tank and a pro
by simonsarris 6y ago
> No AC and wood heating are going to be a hard sell.
(I am the author) Sorry I don't make it super clear in Part 1: I have a 500 gallon propane tank and a propane furnace as backup heat. I leave downstairs at 58F so it can't go below that at night. (I have no idea why I decided on that number). It rarely does unless I let the fire die around 7-8pm.
From October to Feb I averaged 1.8 gallons/day of propane use, which I suspect was 90% hot water and propane cooking (we bake bread 2x a week and cook for 1-2 hours almost every single day because we're somewhat obsessed with food. This is also why the downstairs is very kicthen oriented)
> No closets? If that's what you're into...but its going to be hard to sell.
Why? People can easily frame in closets on any of the bedrooms if they wanted to. They all have 2 walls they could do it against. Or if they want bigger bedrooms, they can keep them big.
The counterfactual in "hard to sell" is that there are 900000 houses out there unlike this one, and they all compete against each other. This competes with historic houses. The historic houses here (without AC, with terrible insulation, damp crawlspace basements, etc) command a huge premium. I don't think a traditional-looking house with none of the accumulated problems of real historic houses would be difficult to sell at all.
- ajmurmann 6y agoAnyone from Europe will be happy to but a house without closets. They are super uncommon there. If you aren't gonna use a room as a bedroom, it's nice not to lose the space to the closet.
- fho 6y agoI honestly think the comment you answered to is meant to be a joke ... Wood burning is basically carbon neutral as it just releases the CO2 that the trees have captured back into the cycle. Me, I agree to your decisions and love how it turned out. Also, congrats on becoming (being?) a father! :-)
- mindslight 6y agoPollution is not just CO2. Burning wood releases a lot of particulates. Having said that, standing next to a radiant wood stove is a lovely feeling.