“Once you get to the next step, you realize all these things become possible.” One Edmonton couple renovated their scrappy bungalow in an energy-efficient, solar-powered dream able to withstand frigid Edmonton winters. Here’s how they did it:
From the outside, Jesse Tufts’s Edmonton house looks like a handsome new home, with ample windows, a glassed-in verandah and charcoal and pine siding. But it’s not like every other house on the block: the 900-square-foot house, located in Edmonton’s Glenora neighbourhood, is net zero, which means it consumes as much energy as it produces.
The two used software to play around with different configurations. They realized that with enough insulation, it would be possible to cut off natural gas entirely and heat the house only with electricity, turning the scrappy bungalow into an energy-efficient, solar-powered dream.
With a proposed budget of $100,000, he hired Butterwick Construction, which specializes in building net-zero homes, to begin rebuilding the second storey in August of 2018. The family camped out in the basement until construction was finished, and built a temporary wall blocking off the front door so builders could come and go without disrupting family life.
Tufts focused on longevity when it came to upgrades, spending $36,000 on durable Hardie fibre cement siding and installing a metal roof instead of a shingled one to avoid future repairs. The builders added a 12-kilowatt solar panel system onto the roof, which generates about 13,000 kilowatt hours of energy a year—more than the family uses by 3,000 kilowatt hours. “We’ve been net positive since we turned the system on,” Tufts says.
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