How to Create an Airtight Home for MAXIMUM Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings
00:00:00.000 | What are the principles, like first principles
00:00:02.560 | of just building a more energy efficient home
00:00:04.880 | and why that's important?
00:00:06.520 | - The first place you start is creating an airtight house.
00:00:09.360 | You want a house to be as airtight
00:00:10.760 | and well insulated as you can.
00:00:12.620 | If you don't have a well airtight house,
00:00:15.380 | it doesn't matter what kind of tech you put into it,
00:00:17.200 | what kind of solar panels you put on it,
00:00:18.620 | if it can't hold onto its heat energy
00:00:20.860 | or keep heat out efficiently,
00:00:23.000 | your energy use is gonna go through the roof.
00:00:25.120 | So you have to make sure that you're building it right
00:00:27.520 | to make sure that it meets certain standards.
00:00:29.880 | And one of those is a passive house.
00:00:31.480 | There's a passive house standard
00:00:32.720 | that is very popular around the world.
00:00:34.800 | It's gaining ground.
00:00:36.160 | I did not build my house to passive house certification,
00:00:38.960 | but I took a lot of the underlying principles into mind
00:00:42.680 | when putting this house together.
00:00:44.760 | And I worked with a company
00:00:45.800 | that was able to meet close to passive house level,
00:00:49.040 | airtightness, insulation values,
00:00:51.120 | to make sure that every watt of energy I spend
00:00:54.040 | to heat this house stays in the house as long as it can.