Love modern asymmetry and appreciate anything that can save you up to 90% on your heating and cooling costs? The Corehaus is the only home designed to the ultra efficient Passive House Standard that is currently for sale in Portland! This ultra cool home lets you live with a small footprint, plenty of light, and central to everything we love about the east side. Architect Robert Hawthorne and builder Bart Bergquist put hundreds of hours of perfectionist thought, study, and sweat into this one-of-a-kind home. To see footage of the blower door test they did to test the air tight envelope, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1XEpXKbT5c
The Basics:
- 3 bedroom, 2 bath
- Efficient 1,407 SF floor plan
- Off-street parking
- Separate storage shed
- Private landscaped yard with irrigation
- Custom details including translucent closet doors, laminated wood stairs with cable railing, exposed concrete floors, and tiled bathrooms
- Prewired for A/V
Passive House Features:
- Ultra-efficient building envelope (walls, floor, and roof insulated at least twice code requirements)
- Ultra-efficient and durable fiberglass windows- one of the most efficient windows on the market
- Building envelope designed to significantly reduce and eliminate thermal breaks
- Optimized sizing and orientation for solar access
- Air-tight construction (Approximately 10x tighter than conventional construction)
- Heat Recovery Ventilator provides continuous filtered fresh air without losing heat
- Total heat load: 5,500 BTU/hr maximum
Other Sustainable Features:
- Optional photovoltaic system
- Low-VOC paints and materials
- Energy-star and Earth Advantage rating anticipated
- Low-flow plumbing fixtures
- 300 gallon rainwater cistern for irrigation
- Fully operable windows
- Tankless water heater provides unlimited hot water with no storage losses
- Durable, low-maintenance metal roof and cementitious siding
- Complete website and Blog: http://corehauspdx.com/
(And just steps to my favorite cafe, Seven Virtues)
The members of GreenPDX were given a private tour of this house a few weeks ago to learn more about the Passive House standard requirements and what it took Rob and Bart to achieve the standard on the Corehaus. (See the full scoop and photos from the tour here.)
This home is For Sale for $330,000, so please call me for a showing today: Amber Turner 503-804-1261
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