Clintonville Passive House

Okay, I need to start off by acknowledging that I’ve done a lousy job of creating frequent posts to mark the progress of this project.  Oops.  In the spirit of doing better while making the task manageable, I’m going to make this post short and sweet.  Here’s the gist: I’m certifiable! To those of you…

Okay, so it’s been a long time since I posted. Lots has been happening on site! But prioritizing the blog has been difficult. That said, the below work took place in April of this year. I’ll catch up and get back on track soon. For now, where did I leave off? Oh, right… If the…

Well, now that the trees have been sliced into boards and safely stored away off premises, the logical next step has come for this project.  I shall dig myself a hole and begin to put a house in it. Perhaps that’s easier said than done, especially on a tight city lot such as this.  Space…

Every new project has a beginning point.  While the beginning of Clintonville Passive House goes back a couple years in terms of idea making, design, and planning, the physical start happened a couple weeks ago with the necessary task of clearing the site to make way for excavation.  This meant removing some trees, bushes and…