The Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat and Cool Your Home - Softcover

Kachadorian, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930031970 ISBN 13: 9780930031978

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2002

Synopsis

This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourselfers. A formerly patented design for author James Kachadorian's Solar Slab heat exchanger is now available for the use of anyone motivated by the desire to build a house that needs a backup furnace or air conditioner rarely if ever. This is a building book for the next century. Applicable to a diversity of regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian's techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design (siting a home in harmony with nature, using windows as solar collectors, achieving year-round comfort by balancing good insulation with healthy supplies of fresh air) into practical wisdom for today's new generation of solar builders.

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Synopsis

Describes a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves using ordinary building materials and methods familiar to building contractors and do-it-yourselfers. Explains how to build and use the author's formerly patented design for a solar heat exchanger built into the foundation of a house, with chapters on the passive solar concept,

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930031970
• ISBN 13: 9780930031978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220