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Can I read The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun (How-To Guides) on EtoBox?
The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun (How-To Guides) by Mark Freeman; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun (How-To Guides) about?
I am a first-time DIY owner-builder, presently in the early planning stages of my house project. I picked this book up at Borders as my first book on homebuilding, and was glad that I did. It was a quick and easy read, and its friendly, informal, confident style makes the first-time homebuilder feel that perhaps doing it yourself is not so daunting a task after all. The book contains enough detailed explanations and drawings to give one a feel for what kind of work is involved in all the various stages of a typical passive solar homebuilding project, while remaining brief enough as to not be too intimidating. However, I agree with the previous reviewer that this is only a snapshot of one particlular way of building an energy-efficient house, and many alternatives are not covered, for example, alternative insulating wall materials such as straw bales or SIPS board. Also, the book is biased towards construction in far-north climates and does not extensively address the needs of warmer regions where keeping the house cool may often be a bigger concern than keeping it warm. Also, the authors seem overly obsessed with putting up completely airtight vapor barriers on their interior
Who reads The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun (How-To Guides)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark Freeman; NetLibrary, Inc
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780585268309
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Technology, Education