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The Simple Genius of a Prefabricated House – My Net Zero Home Build. Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/undecided – Enter promo code UNDECIDED for 85% off and 3 extra months for FREE! I’m in the process of building a new energy efficient, net zero, modular home to passive house standards, that’s being built in a factory. Why did I choose this path versus one of the many other sustainable and energy efficient methods like stick built passive homes, ICF, earthships, etc. (fill in your favorite technique)? There’s no one right way to do this, but I think the best way to walk through why I went the path I did is to show you how Unity Homes builds their houses. This may spur ideas for yourself. I had the chance to see my house’s panelized walls getting built in the factory, and to say it was cool would be an understatement. After seeing this, you might see why factory building energy efficient homes and buildings might be a good path for the future.
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RECYCLE ALERT! You did not include how the plastic weather wrap of each module is disposed/recycled of. This is a considerable volume of plastic. Please add that as a pinned comment…
Sweet! I see that you are using European style windows too – they are the only windows I have found so far that meet the u factor requirements assigned to our ICF house plans from our Solar-gain based energy efficient house plan. Thanks for the inspiration and information.
your home is taking away sereral hundrads jobs away from the market
Awesome 👍… Cost per Sq Ft please 🙏
how much Unity charged for your home?
“Net zero”. Lol.
Cool build but it's not really gonna be passive levels. R-35 can be accomplished with a 2×6 frame R-24 insulation, and 2" of XTPS on the exterior for R-10, total R-34 and also no thermal bridge.
Passive house walls are generally in the range of R-48 to R-60 for the walls.
Still, solid build!
I'd love to see a video where you go over the process of designing your home, finding a lot and finding a local contractor to assemble it!
So the sill anchor bolts goes through the 2×3 non-structural wall? Yeah. Good luck with that meeting code.I like how they spun it tho. No mention of how they had to do it that way because the main part of the panel is sealed. No access for an anchor bolt.
meh…these factory built homes are not cost-effective (which is the whole point of factory manufacturing) You can get way more flexibility and bang for your buck from a knowledgeable “passive” home builder.
Don't think that connection to the slab will pass seismic muster here in CA.
Soviet home😂
How do you deal with a delay of one early stage material, would that stop the whole factory?? How many houses can be done at one time – one factory vs multiple building sites? Agree efficient but is it faster ?
Just hope that no one changes their mind on what they want
Atmospheric CO2 levels of 1200 ppm about three times what they are today would greatly invigorate C3 plants the majority of plant life on earth greatly greening the planet.
There is no mechanism that would allow greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming. Global warming was officially stated at 1.1°C in 1991 and 1.06°C in 2022. The back of the United Nation's IPCC science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical practice for deceptive marketing to state legal data transparency protecting the perpetrators from fraud prosecution.
Earth's greenhouse effect is frequently used as a primary example to high school students of a system always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth with greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the surface that is all around us everyday and can't have its overall effect changed. There is no further greenhouse radiant energy to interact with greenhouse gases. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over 99% of earth’s greenhouse effect is from water vapor. Water vapor would hold earth's greenhouse effect in saturation if it were the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Arctic warming is taking place with the proving mechanism being warm Atlantic Ocean waters migrating deeper and more frequently into the Arctic Ocean warming it and the region. That warmer water is causing a few weeks less of reflective snow and ice coverage resulting in more solar heat gain to the Arctic region surface.
0.4% of the atmosphere is CO2 and on average 1% is H20 water vapor. (1% H20)/(0.4% CO2) = 25. Water vapor is 25 times more present in the atmosphere on average than CO2. Water vapor has an CO2e of 18, 18 X 25 = 450 CO2e total for water vapor to 1 CO2e for CO2.
The Earth’s oceans have 3-1/2 million sea floor volcanic vents warming the water and changing it’s chemistry that have not been systematically accounted for.
This is great! It is my first video of yours, but I can't wait to see more. I'm contemplating building a home like this. It blew me away that you are using tilt and turn windows. They are not known by most Americans, but ubiquitous in much of Europe. I'm curious why SIPs are not a part of the construction.
Love these! I'm planning a house build and this has been a huge help!
In my opinion printed homes are death traps for seismic events. There's no lateral support, and concrete crumbles in tremors.
Sooooo, fyi, Anchored Homes is under investigation for defrauding homeowners in CA!
im curious of the software, has it been online?
Wood is good only for packaging.
Am i the only one who sees the thermal bridges ?