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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Originally posted by Tervuren
The house my parents built twenty five years ago was fairly odd for its day. Several things my parents did when they built and designed it themselves I now see in modern houses.
But dad also tapped into the underground water for heating and cooling. Significantly less heating and cooling energy needed. It offers a medium very near what we leave it all year round.
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Like you the house I grew up in until the age of 10 was solar heated, had radiant heat in floors and was far ahead of its time in most areas.
Remember it well and have thought many times of buying it back. The utility costs were 1/3rd of what other houses in the area were spending.
Got me interested in alternative energy at an early age.
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