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Okay, great book. The living room on the left was cold and stayed too cold for most of the family. So here\u2019s the fixes I think would allow a big, 15 foot ceiling, glass wall-having living room to be warm even in the dead of winter like on this picture.<\/p>\n
Triple pane glass seems obvious. It is still simple pane I believe, which is ludicrous in Iowa. The thing is it\u2019s probably super expensive considering the surface to cover. And a lot of details to solve (door hinges?) That would do a whole lot in terms of insulation though.<\/p>\n
Green roof! Green roofs are fantastic at insulating and are very resilient to snow so heat would stay inside a lot better (heat goes up, don\u2019t forget) rather than hit the cold concrete ceiling and die. The major problem here, is the structure: to have an efficient 127 foot\/40 meters green roof in that weather, you would need a thick one, which means a thicker concrete slab, which means considerable weight added thus, structural questions. I don\u2019t think the current structure would allow it and a thin green roof would probably not be enough change and too much work for it. Still, if the possibility to adjust the structure for it\u2014without changing anything aesthetically\u2014 existed, a green roof would be a wonderful addition, allowing residents to sit on top of their house, watching the sun set.<\/p>\n
Radiant heat and hardwood floors in the living room. There\u2019s already radiant heat but I\u2019m thinking making it up to date and probably electric instead of water pipes (maintenance gains). I would also make it independent from the other floors so not to make the other rooms extra crispy! Hardwood floors because they are definitely easier to keep at a warm temperature than stones. Also aesthetically I believe they would make the entrance in the living room from the very cave-y stairs going down, even more dramatic. They\u2019re also quite easy to \u201cseparate\u201d from the structure so that thermal bridges on the floor would be limited.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this unique house will probably deteriorate until someone up the family tree sells the property, fed up by the questions about the Frank Lloyd Wright creation. I hope not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Okay, great book. The living room on the left was cold and stayed too cold for most of the family. So here\u2019s the fixes I think would allow a big, 15 foot ceiling, glass wall-having living room to be warm even in the dead of winter like on this picture. Triple pane glass seems obvious. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}