A first-of-its-kind home in Colorado Springs
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2022
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In a neighborhood speckled with brown, tan and gray roofs, one house under construction stands out. Its stark blue roof and large windows across the side of the home make it different from the rest.
But this home's uniqueness goes deeper than the exterior design: it is Colorado Springs’ first home built to Passive House standards and certified.
“[We] just happened upon this perfect lot,” said Caitlin Auyer, the house's owner. “[We wanted to] build something that follows, kind of, the footprint of the land and lets the environment around it … dictate how it's laid out and how it's going to efficiently perform.”
Passive House standards refer to a specific type of building first designed in Europe a few decades ago that takes energy efficiency to a new level. Everything from the ground up is built with special materials and design in mind to make it energy efficient and airtight, allowing most of the heating and cooling of the home to happen naturally.
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Your average local can’t even consider an option like this. Near GoG?! Got 💰?? You have 4 choices in CS…1800s house, 1960s/1970s house or 4 plex, 1990s house, or million dollar homes in Cordera, new.
So true. 🤦🏼♂️
The average house in the springs is almost 400k. New houses are being built everyday. Springs locals can afford this , their lot looked super tiny . Perhaps u should move to Pueblo, the springs was dubbed the millionaire city. U cant consider some loser working in the restaurant industry an average local seeing how they could never b in the housing market anywhere.
@@trashbun2 Why would I leave my hometown? You must be part of the problem with your rude self.
Yep, you are so right.
I might accidently drive past your home someday, and I'll know who built it and why. Cool! I'm for all alternatives that live in harmony with our lovely Earth. Really nice work! Elisha at Fillmore and Nevada (Old North End)
Regarding solar heat gain in that large mountain-facing window: with the house located so close to Pikes Peak, the sun will set there in the winter around 3:30-4:30 pm. I am not certain that is enough exposure to the direct rays of the sun to really heat anything up. I am not an expert, I just know how early the sun dips behind the Peak in the winter months in the Garden of the Gods area.
Batteries.
@@trer04 Motorboat.
paper walls, dry ground, hmmm all thats missing a glass propane roof. 🏡⚡🔥
I hope everyone builds this way in the future.
Fantastic. I’m on the west side too….and welcome your foresight and thoughtfulness for going with passive design…it’s so surprising it’s not more common.
I live in Colorado Springs, East Cheyenne Mountain Blvd and 115. It is a wonderful place to live
First to build this model, impressive !
West side is the best side! Howdy neighbor. Very cool house in a very cool place!
Love it! Great job
I am curious as to how much the paper insulation will settle over time. I lived in Colorado Springs years ago and know the climate is dry but I would still worry about mold growth. Still a beautiful home. Our family has also become multi generational and it really is the best way for families too live.
I love Colorado springs I went to visit my son in the army but I got sick from the high elevation I'm from boston
I'm stationed in ft carson, Colorado springs us just outside.
It 100% makes sense.
Congrats and great job! Thanks for bringing alternative building practices to the area. I am curious about the costs and how this compares to a stick-built home? Also, wondering where you moved from? I recently moved from California to be closer to family in Colorado, and with experience living in Northern California have been exposed to some very creative builds.
Very cool! As a local realtor I’m all about new, diverse, and affordable options for each and every person.
“I’m a realtor” is the new “I’m vegan”
@@GarryReyom lol “I do CrossFit”
First CERTIFIED.
Insulation made of newspaper? Scary to think if a fire comes through there!
As noted above, the cellulose is treated with a fire retardant, and due to dense packing, is one of the more fire resilient insulation materials.
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Hopefully there’s lots of trees around the house…so they have something to hug! 😉
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Exactly
Hope the outside is wildfire resistant. Lived here my whole life. That sure looks like it would go up quick. Just saying.
Do you really think that would not be considered in a brand new, highly engineered house being built in a fire-prone area?
It doesn't look like it is optimized for solar gain .
Not where it's located. They are too close to Pikes Peak. In the winter, you want to take maximum advantage of the sun's warmth in the late afternoon. However, the sun goes behind the mountain in the early afternoon. This area is in shadow later in the day all year round.
Not exactly. The sun doesn't set over the peak in winter.
@@nortonjoseph7601 It sets behind the mountains and the entire Front Range gets an early sunset. You have to travel pretty far east before you get a normal sunset. In Colorado Springs in particular, the sun never sets gradually. Things get dark real fast when the mountain casts its shadow over the entire city, but especially early in the Garden of the Gods where this house is located.
@@nortonjoseph7601 For solar gain it would be East West aligned like mine in the same area.
@@badbiker666 I have a similar situation and have windows on the East side. How can you take advantage of the sun in the afternoon when there is so little window area.
Newspaper insulation is great!! Especially for burning faster than your family can possibly escape. . High desert brush fires are not a common occurrence in Colorado at all.
IS THAT WHY THIS IS A PASSIVE HOME?? TWO FAMILIES CAN QUICKLY PASS ON AND STOP CONTRIBUTING TO EARTHS DESTRUCTION??
Cellulose is treated with a fire retardant and is one of the more fire resilient insulation materials in part due to the lack of oxygen from dense packing.
She said “we want to build it all ourselves” and then talks about how the whole house was prebuilt, shipped from Canada, and assembled by others at location. How is this even remotely close to “we want to build it all ourselves”? More like millennial contradiction attention seeking behavior.
Ok Boomer. Are you really that thick, or are you just playing a fool? It's contractor speak, not millennial speak. Didn't you listen? She said they flip houses. So, "building it ourselves" means dealing with designing, planning, and constructing a home - as opposed to buying one that is already built. There, does that make sense? Because your comment screams " I don't understand and that makes me angry." I'll bet she makes you feel lazy.
Yes, a lot of the words they are using don't seem to mean what other people means when they use them. I've heard it used by wealthy people in this way before, though, when they say "build it ourselves" they just mean they aren't hiring a home already finished.
I don't even know what they are talking about here. Cellulose is almost zero carbon? Its chemical formua is 6 carbon atoms for 10 hydrogen atoms and 5 oxygen atoms. Paper is from trees, and trees are built out of carbon. Does he means zero carbon emmissions? Does drywall usually emit carbon? What is he even talking about? And "two families, one house", we used to just call that a duplex. I mean, all fine and all, but I'm not getting how this is a one of a kind house. I'm also not getting how its eco -friendly when you are driving the parts all the way from Canada? I hope they love their new home, but I don't understand how this is a story.
Near zero carbon refers to the atomosphric C02 that results in the manufacture, installation, and life use of the material no matter what the material is made with.
@@ACMichler Thank you. So how does that sync up with it being converted newspaper? Even if you don't start counting until after the newspaper has started its second life (because logging, paper manufacture, and delivery of newspaper is obviously anything but low carbon footprint?), is this not going to use fossil fuel energy for processing? I'm seeing manual uses of paper (baling, glueing, etc.) in construction, but this is clearly machine-processed, so I can't see how that can be done without shipping the paper to a central place and using energized machines to convert it to a consistent and clean product? Maybe he means lower carbon producing, not almost zero? Appreciate the information, though, you are obviously right about what was meant.
@@ACMichler Wait, are you saying that it's not about the composition, this product is sold as near zero carbon footprint because of offsets?
@@ACMichler Sorry to reply again, I'm looking it up and apparently the thinking is that even though it has to be processed and have chemicals added, and transported, you are "trapping" the carbon from the trees originally used in the house for as long as the house stands and so you can basically subtract the "trapped" carbon from the produced carbon and call it kind of even. Which seems pretty disingenuous to me in any case, but certainly when describing it as "almost nearly zero carbon" without explanation. I'm glad he's found a house building project he thinks is superior to the standard but stories like this which act like building brand new houses with trucked in materials is ecologically sound if you do it with certain brands. It sounds like an old house was torn down and thrown away to build this one. Again, not judging their home, just the RMPBS presentation of this. I'm not even hearing what the square footage is, if this is a 3000 square foot duplex that's one thing -- if they are building a 5000 square foot duplex for four people? Again, might be great, but is it really "green"?
Poor wife and husband...
They have to scrounge for food and shelter...
It's called. SPRINGS....
How much did she smoke before this lol. She forgot the eyedrops
Hahahaha! At least it's legal here!
Lame ..same as everything out there..
Don't California Colorado.
What does that even mean? Should they build a piece of junk builder-grade McMansion so it fits in better with the other suburban tracts of the Springs?
@@whiteryanc No, don't think that's what they meant at all. What they might have meant was something along the lines of what we have seen here in Colorado for the past several years of green initiatives, simply for the sake and idea of being green, and not necessarily for the result or benefit of them. Also, if you look at the start of the video, almost nothing else would have fit in that tiny spot of a parcel they were building in - so maybe that is some of the California they were referring to.....where it is normal to build a house, green or otherwise, basically on top of the next one. I, for one, couldn't make it through the video because they used the phrase "passive house" like 20 times in the first two minutes, which seems to show how California the agenda was with the build.....that sound about right.
@@anthonyb8484 How is the Passive House standard a "California" thing? They said the phrase so much because it's the entire point of the story. For too long the building industry has barely met minimum code, which is woefully insufficient for the next 40-100 years of housing stock to be operating at. Colorado Springs is a city, cities are defined generally by some degree of density so of course plots are stacked one next to the other. Surely this project went through zoning, and if it had any outlying setbacks was also surely put to public comment as is standard virtually everywhere.
Progress and striving for better quality home stock is not "California", it's common sense.