Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: ability to heat upstairs W/O installing heat upstairs

[OCCNG11 (normangauss]

Sean:

    Arcata is quite marine with low maximums and high minimums.  Ashland is 
more continental with greater swings between maximum and minimum 
temperatures.

    Average January minimum temperatures in Ashland, Oregon are 30.9 
degrees with maximum of  47.3.  That is considerable colder than Arcata.

    Average July maximum temperatures in Ashland are 90.2 and minimums are 
55.2.  So Ashland is more like Redding and Red Bluff than Arcata.

Norm G.
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Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ ability to heat upstairs W/O installing heat upstairs


> Hi Alfred,
>
> One of my friends just built a well-insulated, passive solar designed
> house here in Arcata that had radiant floor heating only on the first
> floor. We have a very similar climate to your own, if a tad warmer in the
> winter, and he's happy with his second floor warmth.  I think his example
> is telling because he lives entirely on the second floor, while the first
> floor (where the radiant tubing is) is his bookstore.
>
> Also, I have spoken with a local architect at length on the topic of
> heating only the first floor of a house and her opinion is strongly that
> it is a workable cost-saving solution.
>
> Sean
>
>
> Project Administrator
> 31 South G Street
> Arcata, CA 95521
> 707.826.1450
> sga1 [at] humboldt.edu
>
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