High Efficient Building Consultation - Greenhouse, Passive Solar House, Cold Climate Build, Net Zero

[@The-Mad-Taoist]

Your giving this for free what a legend 👏

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Maybe the universe will give it back. ✌️

[@muttters1]

Awesome man thank you.❤

[@cerillium]

Thanks this is extremely useful info. The house we just moved into is exactly this passive house design, the original owner was the builder and they put a huge deck along with the overhang roof on the south side which gives you the option to sit outside in the sun while the house remains cool in summer. Would love to build a shop and greenhouse combo like that one day. Thx for the vids!

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Awesome. Hard to find passive solar anything unfortunately. 👍

[@VaughnCampbell]

Best video on passive greenhouses ever. Im from SK as well and dream of having an acreage with a woodworking shop and a greenhouse all attached to my house. Incorporating all these ideas and also having a ground thermal battery, with some rooftop solar power, winters would not cost a cent!

[@CanadianPrepper]

I forsee a new Bob Ross offgrid construction arc in your future, great video man!

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Haha. “It’s not perfect, but it doesn’t matter”. 👍✌️

[@dje7335]

Great sketchwork Dean! (Forget the blueprint offer). You make the concept so clear. I fantasize about one structure for shop, greenhouse, & home. His & hers 😉. Patent the phrase "greenhousedominium"!!! You're goona' love the thermal mass in 3 ahort months!

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Haha. Greenhousedominium. Glad it all comes across simple and clear. ✌️🙏

[@offgridwanabe]

Rain water collection inside has so many advantages.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Could you imagine living somewhere where you could just do this shit outside all year? 😂

[@offgridwanabe]

@@ArkopiaKZbin lol right on, I would guess you will need a well top up for winter unless you don't mind running out of water.

[@PaRoughandTumble]

@@offgridwanabe around here it's popular to incorporate a 10,000 gallon cistern into the building for rain water storage.

[@slavetool9066]

FYI snow DOES stick to solar panels set at 45 degrees. In our experience even at 70 degrees the snow can stick reducing the solar output to nearly zero.

[@allmedcom]

Thanks Dean for another great " free" video. We'll await your next video with blueprints and more technical details , preferably "Metric units " and links in the description to useful sites. Would appreciate answering comments and questions in the same or a separate video. How will you fix the suggested thermal mass in the house through the house partition walls? If you could touch on utilizing the collected rain water for irrigation, water thermal mass and heating with the help of solar tubes/ panels through radiators and floor heating. In the combination project ( Greenhouse/ Shop and House/ Garage) having one continuous back ( north ) space ( Shop/ garage) and placing the 2 garage doors on the 2 ends ( East/ West ) of the back (North) structure will be easier, cheaper, more traffic convenient for human/ car/ truck to pass through and allow expansion and better insulation/ ventilation. Please also elaborate on the important below and above ground insulation. Best wishes for you , your family and business.

[@buildingadream]

1:08 me living further north, with the sun at 7,5° xD good vid either way!

[@gauchiergrows7267]

Nice, im currently milling my own lumber I guess now I gotta figure out how to make trusses with a 45

[@garynickel648]

Very HELPFUL. Again thanks

[@harrietmartens742]

Thank you for the drawings, they really clarified the ideas you have been talking about in the other videos.

[@grantsilzer4460]

Great news man ! Been following since canadian prepper.

[@jessicaSmash]

Can’t watch until tomorrow but saving to make sure I don’t miss this. Thank you so much for all you offer. You change lives.

[@DarcyJohnstone-nk2dc]

Kudos Dean

[@clearasmud1945]

Invaluable info!!!! Thank you for your knowledge and generosity. Look forward to all of your videos.

[@shelleyjohnston2537]

always love your posts 🌸this info was very easy to digest for real time application

[@gerb6969]

You've done an amazing thing Dean! Thank you so much for sharing. I love this episode. My wife and I are building plans to move out of the city and build the greenhouse/house/garage/shop combo inspired by you!! Thank you so much for all your sharing.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

That’s awesome to hear. All the best with your builds, and glad I was helpful. 🙏✌️

[@isaacchristensen659]

This was exactly what I was looking for! Hoping to modify it for my purposes in the next 5 years or so.

[@JB-to8vy]

Thank you for all the info sir! I'm in NWO Canadian specific information is sometimes tough to find! I'm a 4th generation carpenter so take this from someone who knows, you didn't let perfect get in the way of done and you did a damn good job. Hind sight is 20/20 your next build will be insane I know I'll take use of this for my shop and barn build on my homestead

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Glad to hear it, and appreciate it. 👌✌️

[@PaRoughandTumble]

Thank you for sharing this. It's a blessing to get this kind of information from someone that is actually living it .

[@calysagora3615]

Thanks Dean! This is an awesome complement to Michael Reynolds seminars. Your designs are just way more realistic in terms of materials and construction time. Kudos.

[@TyeKane]

I agree. I went to the earthship seminars. The amount of time and energy gathering 1000 tires. Stacking and packing is unrealistic. I saw some earthship videos where 20 volunteers paid 2000 bucks to pound tires for 2 months. About 20 min of pounding per tire. Not including screening and moving.

[@cherihanagan544]

We are designing our “barndo” retirement home with attached greenhouse, and this video is so very helpful!

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Great. Glad to hear it. Happy building. ✌️

[@96alex11]

Hi, this is my second video of yours I've watched and I like what you're doing. I live close latitude wise 54 degrees so slightly south of you and yes still Saskatchewan. Anyway I have a decent solar array and believe me you will get winter days that require snow/ice removal. No panels on the roof above your reach of an extension broom. Just saying. Otherwise love the info and will watch the other videos. I like that we're in line of many projects. I already use aquaponics for lots of years and like solar and greenhouse so yeah. 👍👍

[@MAD42]

dude, we just love your greenhouse. great work!

[@nik4520]

Thank you very much

[@Arc-]

Outstanding video! thanks for taking the time. would love to see more detailed blueprints that connect the challenges you overcame in your GH build including the use of in ground insulation and rain catchment systems. Appreciate you!

[@gekehein778]

Your skills are amazing

[@ziggy22shell]

Thank you for the info.

[@keithyoung7381]

Really great idea. Would be a lot cheaper as well

[@Tsuchimursu]

if you're thinking about building passive solar structures, I implore you to check out phase change materials to add on top of your insulation. Will help in smoothing those day night temperature swings passively,by storing heat during the day and releasing it at night. If you don't want big black water barrels in your structure, this could offer a more elegant solution. :) I have no personal experience with pcm insulation, but it seems like a good material to use

[@Itsallmeagain]

Have you considered evacuated tubes to warm water for an in ground or in floor heating. For cooling you could have barrier tubes outdoors below frost line…

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Evacuated tubes are still the plan 👍

[@gronfors6274]

Very helpful!

[@shynicorn3193]

I am going to build this but all my walls will be handled build from cob which is just a clay, sand, and tall hay mixture mixed with water and to form 8 " tall x 8" deep rows stacked on top of each other as they cure. Then a hay bake is placed as wall insulation and another cod wall built on there side. This makes you total wall depth about 45" because the cod will be finished with plaster. All couches and bed platform would also be made of cob along with wood oven that connects to all seating and bedding platforms so the heat from wood burning cob oven blows through heating those surfaces. The flooring would would also be cob but made with ground hay.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Insulate somehow on the cold side, and great. 👍

[@CElton-mi3il]

So, my grandparents built a house in the 70's based on passive solar design. They have an attached greenhouse on the south side. In their dry cold climate I love the attached greenhouse. They eventually changed the angle of the greenhouse glazing to 90 degrees because the window seals wore out more quickly and it would leak a lot. They replaced windows multiple times and got tired of it. It was rather hot in October/November as well. It's probably only 25' to the center wall on the inside of the house, the greenhouse is 11' deep and 30' wide. They put their garage on the north side like you're suggesting. It gets lots of ice on that side in winter. When spring rolls around the driveway takes a lot longer to dry up. For my own house I plan to put the garage either south facing next to the greenhouse or west facing.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

We’re all trying to get it all perfect, and it just doesn’t exist does it. Haha. Super insulation, right amount of south glazing, and just build the rest to what you need. It’ll never be perfect. ✌️🙏

[@TheChapExp]

Excellent! :)

[@kevinhartung4671]

Thankyou. Very informative for Saskatchewan

[@ballhead3294]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@edpozek]

This was exactly the video for me. It will allow me to take an existing large shed and make it into a greenhouse! Thank you!

[@nailbenderMatt]

While some of these ideas are unique to greenhouses, etc. Several of these ideas have been used for many years. As in large overhangs. Before AC. Craftsman style houses here in Iowa we’re commonly built with large overhangs & brackets for shading in the summer & flooded sunlight in the winter.

[@myrhanda5191]

Thank-you! I'm in Ontario, and if I can get an engineer to "stamp" this, then the building inspectors can't say anything. Been trying to figure out how to grow year round, and you've certainly have had a lot of success. Thank-you so much for sharing your experiences!

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

It’s no different than any other building, except the south side of the building. Which isn’t structural or anything. 👍✌️

[@myrhanda5191]

That would be the hard part of convincing our Township over... They make things incredibly difficult

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

@@myrhanda5191 They all do, yup.

[@aaronvanhoucke2065]

Great stuff!! Have you heart about light straw clay? And earthen plasters? That might ben a way to put more thermal mass in your home, wish is very inportant in passive solar disign.

[@mischadavison5052]

Have you thought about potential air leakage from garage to house, causing toxic air entering the living space? Apparently this is a potential issue in super tight buildings that can experience differentials in air pressure

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Vapour barrier on the common wall between sections of the building, and not the same air system.

[@keithcopeland]

Brilliant!

[@jimobrien7061]

Very well done Sir! TY!

[@thomasarchambault9463]

Thanks for making this video. Great help. 👍

[@TheJake76]

0:26 plons lol man that accent is thick 🤣 I was like what are people sending you? 😂

[@kylep8116]

For a few years I've been thinking about doing something like this, but I'm far from even starting, living in the city of s'toon.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

I did it modular, because couldn’t do it all at once. ✌️

[@FrankPloegman]

This is fantastic! Thank you so much for spending your scarce time and sharing your valuable knowledge. Your explanation is crystal clear and it makes total sense. I have no intention of building a passive solar green house, but am very interested in the principles you share for residential and office buildings. I live in The Netherlands where it's not nearly as cold in the winter, but it is mostly cloudy. I wonder how much useful thermal energy can be harvested from the sun during that season under cloudy circumstances. One very smart and well-informed person I follow is going the route of heat pumps and not of solar collectors, south-facing windows, etc. I don't really like heat pumps, but wonder if they're they might be least bad option (assuming your house is already well-insulated) if it's expensive and inefficient to harvest energy from the sun on cloudy days.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

You’ll still get some gain from south windows, but you will use less glazing than sunnier parts. It’s all about the insulation in your more overcast area. Thermal mass always works, even if it isn’t powered by the sun; it just keeps the climate controlled building a constant temperature. Once it’s up to temp, it will take a long time to lose it. 👍. I’m considering hauling and filling drums both into my shop and even crawl space of my house. Just for mass.

[@talkaboutitoffgrid]

this was a great video to inform and educate as to the process - thank you so much - the ideas are flowing

[@svenholmgren5015]

Thanks for sharing. I hope to be able to start planning a greenhouse over the winter, and Yah willing start slowly next year.

[@leonardsanders8768]

Brilliant designs. Thanks for the video.

[@tjh3777]

Thanks brother. God bless you and your family.

[@ullaodk]

Thank you

[@jayweiss602]

Great video again, really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Looking forward to hearing more. Thank you

[@12hyy7]

Hell ya man. We appreciate what ur doin

[@12hyy7]

Got my brain cookin now lol

[@350pauli]

Very useful information the way of working out the design to the angles of the sun ☀️ in the Uk we have about September to April where outside tends to struggle on growing food so I’ve been working on food storage instead … but something like this would definitely expand the growing season here definitely something to think about 👍

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

You get to a point where you switch from storage to both storage and production. ✌️

[@350pauli]

@@ArkopiaKZbin sounds good to me I always had a few trays in the window of salad and winter potatoes in pots in the greenhouse…. I’ve got a stone wall pig barn that’s empty and a one next door to it with no roof I’m thinking I might put a polycarbonate roof on it half of it is already under ground so it would probably work as another greenhouse with more thermal store temperatures

[@gerretw]

When you post your next video, you might explain some of the elements, their purposes and choices, for instance: A) is the black concrete for solar mass, or with the pex pipes in it, to be connected to a radiator, via a recirc pump, with a fan for heating? B) why you didn't opt for blowing hot air from high up in the GH to underground pipes to warm the soil - a heat battery? C) You mention solar water panels facing south - are they to heat the ground under the green house? Could that be a viable alternative to blowing hot air underground? Or are they for domestic hot water? D) with solar panels, powering the fans, the pumps, lighting, wouldn't it still be a passive greenhouse? Is there a downside to solar panels, solar water heater panels, such as freezing in the winter? E) rain water harvesting - how to keep the tanks from freezing if outside, or should they be inside, or underground? F)If you have a large water storage tank, could the solar water panels heat the water in summer, with copper tubing , and that heat be harvested in the winter by pumping the hot water through a radiator. I like your low tech approach, but I wonder why you made the choices you did.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

You could literally build what I explained, with no technology or moving parts, and it works…. Passively. Everything else would be a bonus. But ya, black concrete is a solar heat sink thermal mass, so are black water tanks (not white). Insulation and design is key. The air underground system would be nice, but I prefer spending money on design and insulation. Water is also a much better heat transfer than air, rock, clay, etc. Solar heating panels of any kind can heat water anywhere in the buildings. Lots to it all. Design and insulate, and that’s the best.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

And rain water inside. It’s water mass, which cools in the summer and warms in the winter. 👍

[@mervynshute880]

@@ArkopiaKZbin heating water seems more viable than heating air, but there is a time factor, whereas heating air would be quicker. yet water could transfer better, which would include storing heat, with the plus of releasing heat evenly into the ground.. using glycol in solar heating tubes at the highest point under the roof is intriguing.

[@Tsuchimursu]

with my winter solstice angle being 5 degrees I might have to make some compromises... XD

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Insulate super well, and steeper than 45 degree south glazing. Your summer angle would be less as well. On a passive solar house, it would be less glazing and more insulation also. 👍

[@mervynshute880]

this is good, but, this design seems to be orientated for a winter greenhouse. commercially speaking, a year-round greenhouse would be optimum, for the work that is put into building in the first place.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

if you want to use the full greenhouse in the summer with full light, then expect it to not work nearly as well in the winter.

[@chrismullin8304]

You keep forgetting to write “not to scale” below your drawings! I really dig the designs!

[@paulablake4845]

Very helpful information thanks

[@adammackinnon4850]

Helpful, in the last month or two my plan had become the garage package idea mainly because I'm supposed to remove a 18x24 garage that's now unwanted and his solid and has engineered trusses. I have the winter to put together the insulation and polycarbonate etc.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Excellent. ✌️👍

[@gregan1450]

Cool ideas, have 25 feet x 125 feet facing south. 5 feet setback on each side and have only 15 feet wide to work with.

[@gregan1450]

The width is too narrow only 15 feet to work with unless I build a two story barn.

[@charlesurrea1451]

Interesting take on the thermal mass. I like it. That could even be charged by an exchanger. I'm using you're greenhouse and using it as a house house. Except recessed into the earth 12' . I'm at 32°N . I'm trying a greenhouse that's N/S oriented recessed 12'. 100'LX18'W

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Put a vapor barrier on the greenhouse side and separate the house. Gets humid in greenhouse, and bugs. It’s open to the outside all summer, and humid in the winter. ✌️

[@chrismullin8304]

Thanks Dude!

[@margaretkiepski9552]

You should patent the design and sell it. This is all in time, ready for people living in Europe on the Putin pipeline.

[@dalewolver8739]

thanks

[@johanneshoogenboom]

Thank you very much for all this info. Could you do a video about the foundations and wall composition and frost barriers?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

I did a construction video on it called "One Man Build Massive Greenhouse". It covers how I did that stuff.

[@brandonkallio1215]

Great info, I live in Central Alberta and I was curious about the angles of the poly and roof. I can pretty much copy your design. It's a hard day when you wake up cold and then you find out your propane froze!!!!!! Not to many designs work in our climates.

[@dennisknott9347]

Thanks Dean. I’ve hesitated to reach out directly as I know you are busy! Some different and some same ideas that I have had for our next build. I did want to ask your thoughts on using glass as opposed to polycarbonate?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Polycarbonate diffuses light, where glass reflects some light. Before polycarbonate, a glass greenhouse glazing should be perpendicular to the sun; polycarbonate it doesn’t matter so much of the angle. Polycarbonate will last between 10 and 25 years, but glass arguably longer. Glass would break in hail, but polycarbonate would just dint. Polycarbonate is cheaper than glass. Hope that helps you make a decision, ✌️

[@dennisknott9347]

@@ArkopiaKZbin Thanks for the insight, I’m like you and hate doing things twice, so I was leaning towards glass. I have a fellow contractor that deals with tempered glass for railings. Thinking that may be the ticket and set the glass perpendicular to the winter solstice. Our snow here is much wetter than yours and will stick on my solar panels that are at 60° so a steeper angle for the greenhouse would be beneficial anyways

[@sloverspellitright9664]

don't do water do sand just more pv systems but simple with a k.i.s.s and timberline makes solar shingles.

[@arenawoodworks]

If you find the time to put this on paper (PDF or book) I'm happy to pay for it!

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

I’m going to try and put something all together. Thank you. 👍✌️

[@mrb3135]

Radical changes in the sun are causing increasing stresses on the tectonic plates. Please have an alternate heat source, as, at some point, sunlight will be greatly diminished because of MASSIVE increases in volcanic activity.

[@dje7335]

Haven't heard that theory. Not dismissing the possibility however when building a system for "sustainable living" a preparedness mindset is critital. No one method is certain but the probabilities must be considered. Personally I fear government influences over environmental changes within my lifetime.

[@helenloughrey7660]

I have heard this. Check out ice age farmer (archive) and adapt 2030 youtube channels for more on krakatoa-like climate effects (“the year without a summer”) predicted for the 2040’s due to longterm solar cycles.

[@ryansorensen9669]

When you are adding essentially a lean to green house to an existing building is the weight and impact of the snow melting off the existing roof onto the poly carbonate a concern?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Not at a steep angle on the polycarbonate. Probably don’t want a huge drop for snow and ice off of another roof though. 45 degrees (12:12 pitch) works perfect for me.

[@Golf-zt5nh]

Very similar to an earthship design , I get you are Canadian and the temperature are extreme in the winter , how do you know the degrees for your area for the solstice and the sun angle ?

[@helenloughrey7660]

Question: Why angle the low slope rainwater roof after explaining the snow removal problem of a low slope roof?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

The low slope is the strong typical building structure and doesn’t let light through. The greenhouse glazing side is lighter duty construction so there isn’t any shading, and the polycarbonate where you want light to come through always. 👍

[@toechop]

Hi Dean I look forward to each of your new videos or podcasts. I enjoy your honest ideas. I was wondering what your views might be on ICF walls. I'm thinking of using ICF and earth bermed walls on my west,north, and east walls as another barrier to the mother natures cold and wind as we get lots of wind and cold in SW Minnesota. I see Canada does a far bit of ICF, do you know of any downsides to it? It could be a subject in one of your videos if you like.. Thanks again.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

ICF (insulated concrete forms), and SIPs (structural insulated panels) are great. The Hutterites essentially don’t build with wood anymore, it’s just SIPs which are styrofoam insulation and concrete. Great. 👍

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

@@ElectronicMusicUnderground Insulation is key. If doing an earth berm on the north, I would super insulate the earth berm from the elements, but not insulate to the building. My water thermal mass on the warm side I think is the way to go. Video coming soon on it.

[@swinkeymo]

Instead of an overhang, how about an awning?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Same thing. 👍

[@skepticalme9501]

This was very helpful. I know now what I need to fix and we have a good idea how to. We have a polycarbonate roof 16mm and I’m looking at yours wondering if you have plastic on the inside? Since that’s the biggest area of heat loss would it be helpful to put a 6mil clear plastic on the inside? That would give us 4 inches of insulation of air.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

That’s what I did, yes. Any more glazing and it blocks too much light for the plants. I calculated twin wall polycarbonate and a 6mill greenhouse poly as about the maximum.

[@skepticalme9501]

@@ArkopiaKZbin do you leave that plastic up in the summer?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

@@skepticalme9501 Yup. All year. Probably do more damage trying to take it down and put it up again,

[@mervynshute880]

@@ArkopiaKZbin 6mil poly, is this 1/4" thick? That sounds quite a lot for a polythene film.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

@@mervynshute880 no. Twin wall Polycarbonate is about 1/4 inch thick. Greenhouse poly is 6 mill poly.

[@AlanAlanAlanDave]

Not contradicting, as I think you're correct but earth ship houses tend to have an integrated house & greenhouse. He in the UK we are being told that solar pannels need to be around 30 degrees. Is there any worth while benefit in the solar pannels sun tracking?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

With my new experiences with solar panels, where I live I am ground mounting, and adjusting to be completely vertical in winter. Greenhouse on the side of the living space is still what i would do

[@AlanAlanAlanDave]

@ I have lat’ of 52 & a long’ of 0.6. Winter sol is 14.18, summer sol’ is 61.06 optimal non movement solar works out to be 52deg. As land is at a premium here in the UK allowing more space for enough solar isn’t possible unless you’re a land owner or a farmer (who are getting screwed).

[@myidahohomestead.7123]

Maybe you've answered it in another video I haven't seen yet, but my question is, would it be and benefit to dig down a few feet in the greenhouse area vs having it at ground level?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Depends on your location. Every foot down where I live makes 4 ft of shading in the winter. ✌️

[@myidahohomestead.7123]

@ArkopiaKZbin I live in a high dry climate at about 42 degrees. My winter sun is at about 24 degrees. June 19th of this year, just a week ago, we had a killing frost. 4 days later, and we were at 94 degrees fahrenheit. In the winter, we hit -26 Fahrenheit for a week. It's hell here, but I can't get my family to leave. Thanks for your videos and all the work you put into them.

[@nickneufeld2081]

Hey Dean, thanks for all the value you share with us! I'm building this building right now in MB!! It's a 2BR passive solar cabin with attached passive solar greenhouse (no shop or garage this time). I'm thinking about making the shared wall vapour-open with cellulose insulation. I figure the temps between cabin and greenhouse won't be extremely different. I won't heat greenhouse - perrenials will go dormant. So I figure much less humidity than you have. Thoughts on vapour-open?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Awesome. I would do vapour barrier and then have the ability to control between buildings. Sort of like how new houses are so efficient now that they need an air exchanger to be able to control the fresh air. All the best with your build. Email me some pics or plans if you feel like sharing that much. ✌️👍

[@davidwright5580]

I live in the north BC Canada

[@Crono088]

Question on the 45 degree truss for solar panels. If you are talking about using them for power i understand the design. But if its for heat transfer does it not make more sense to put it indoors were you don't compete with the elements like you were thinking in a previous video?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

Could be for domestic hot water in the summer time, or something. 👍

[@kevinduerksen6458]

Is there a minimum dimensions that this would work in? I'm looking at attaching an 8x10 or 10x12 greenhouse to the south side of my garage.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

The concept works for anything, but a smaller building had less thermal mass, air included. So when you open a door to a small building, a huge percentage of the air changes. It works much better per square foot with a larger building. ✌️

[@edpozek]

After looking at garage options, based on truss size, how deep should a 12 foot tall building be? I see you talk about 60 foot trusses but how do I balance size with cost/size constraints. 60 feet will likely be an issue.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

It’s just an example based on my greenhouse dimensions. You can, and probably should, reduce the sizes of your buildings. This is my process; start with big squares and the right geometry, then reduce things everywhere you can. ✌️

[@nickneufeld2081]

Thanks Dean for this info!!! Question: if I don't plan on mounting solar panels then is a single slope roof just as good as the custom dual slope roof that you detailed?

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

For sure. Just shed the water, collect it easily if you want. Even vaulted trusses higher on the south end, like my greenhouse. ✌️

[@ryansoo4000]

I would NOT place a garage, a shop, a house and a greenhouse all under one roof with adjoining “interior” walls. From a building science point of view, the issue isn’t just insulating the interior walls between all four spaces so that heat or cold is prevented from moving from one environment to another but AIR SEALING each individual space. For example, you do not want moisture (in the form of bulk water or vapor ) getting “pulled” into the wall or ceiling cavities from the greenhouse and cause mold and rot throughout the rest of the building. This could easily happen if there was the slightest difference in air pressurization between the two spaces. Second, carbon monoxide from the attached garage could get pulled into the living spaces and cause sickness or even death, not to mention any chemical fumes produced in a shop. Again, the slightest difference in pressurization between spaces could cause this to happen. If all these different spaces (garage, shop, house, greenhouse) are not completely and perfectly sealed off from each other there will be problems, and all it takes is a small hole in the drywall for a recessed can light, an electrical plug, or even an electrical wire or a plumbing pipe and a TON of vapor can move through the wall or ceiling assembly. Research has shown that air leakage through just a one square inch hole in a sheet of drywall allows 30 quarts of water vapor to pass through drywall. It would be best to keep a colder, drier space like a garage and shop and a hotter, moister space like a greenhouse separate from your living space - and certainly don’t connect them on purpose in the hope that the warm air from the greenhouse will help heat the house and the warm heat from the house will help heat the shop and garage. That’s just dangerous and asking for trouble.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

I disagree somewhat, but you are correct that you have to separate areas with proper vapor barrier, which I didn't get into in this video. Humidity and protecting structures, especially in a humid greenhouse, is very important. All earth ships have a small, long greenhouse on the south of the structure, attached to the living portion. An attached garage that most houses have is not much different than what I proposed and did first hand.

[@ArkopiaYouTube]

@@ElectronicMusicUnderground Great to hear that my concepts are sitting well with someone well informed on these type of builds. All the best with your builds. ✌️🙏

[@AlanAlanAlanDave]

Is it possible to swap the shop for the house?

[@johnwilliams-ni8cn]

money evolution from debt from only debt evolves all hatred, wars, murders, slavery, pollution and suffering(when anyone forgives debt they do not have too make anyone suffer too force too pay debt), since its not real, try to show anyone debt? what color is it? so if none use its illusion, then only whats left is true and real. people naturally with love creatively share with each other. man, woman and children can love themselves and others, have peace and share it, create something for itself and also others. its impossible to put yourself in debt to yourself, try it in a asylum. debt is the hypocrite, can only be done to others, it can only take(extort, blackmail) not able to love, forgive, create and share. debters thought how can we use the illusion of debt too take what is real? they then attached debt to gold and called it money. since gold is real then debt is real? debters could then try, too start to use the illusion of debt, in the real world, too buy it all? inslave it all?(from debt's money evolves all mechanization of any services people do naturally together) instead of people with love creating things to share, they where trained to legally use money(debt) to buy and sell things, debters even attaching tax(debt) too anything people would buy and sell with money, the more commerce the more financial profit?(debt). love, creativity, sharing made illegal(is it illegal too forgive in court?). the illusion of debt only perpetuates more debt illusion, its hatred only destroys, its a murderous suicidal genocide. imagine a spirit, has love, wisdom, and power, able to forgive and be free? avoid debt, the lie, be true and free.

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How much land is there there is over 295 billion 1/8 acres of land on this world, In canada and united states there are 23 billion 1/8 acres of land, so all the 8 billion people in the world could all go to canada and united states, all get 1/8 acre of land totally free that another is not using, away from any resources people need to live, there would still be an extra 15 billion 1/8 acres of public land left over, there would not be a human body anywhere else in the world, non in africa, south america, europe, china, russia etc... yet we are being lied to there is NOT enough land? oil? gas? electricity? food? water? etc... 1/8 acre of land is 5445 sq ft, an average 2 bedroom condo is less than a 1000 sq ft, that can be built on 1/8 acre of land, people build on swamps, mountains, snow etc... add a 2000 sq. ft. greenhouse for nutrition, grow plants for free! There is still 2445 sq. ft. Left over, chickens, goat etc...? they can build anything their hearts desire. If people want they can move together, 1/8 acre next to another one or far away. free thermal heat, self-sufficient hydro, people can help each other create anything for free again. humans never have to act as a slave to something else. It’s better to show someone how to help themselves, then forced to act as a slave to another. look at all the homeless people dying, murder? all land and its resources is the gift that keeps on giving, to you and your child, that must always be free from debt. its only on your own land you have liberty and justice, live by your own laws, not a slave to an others rules. all ⅛ acres of land can be tracked on the written world map also with computer. in a town there is a piece of land that for over 20 yrs has had a fence/border/debt around it, destroying anything that could have creatively used it, so retarded. having what they need people naturally help each other! for free. imagine a spirit, has love, wisdom, and power, able to forgive and be free? avoid debt, the lie, be true and free. why do most people do what they do? politicians, artists, athletes, police, army, navy, air force, accountants, bankers, lawyers, drug dealers(legal and illegal) psychologists, criminals, doctors, strippers, secretaries, builders, thieves etc... for shelter and nutrition, especially for their child. imagine a spirit, has love, wisdom, and power, able to forgive and be free? avoid debt, the lie, be true and free.

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fasting is the best beneficial healing for any body, people can live on just a few potatoes a day, or couple of coconuts. food is big business and the debters are always trying to add taxes too everything, so more bought and sold, the more tax extortion. its very important too show children the financial system by doing yours with them, instead of them acting as ignorant citizens ;( asking children too talk about their dreams when they sleep in the morning, is very interesting, allows them too realize them, its very important too knowing how too use god's energy where everything is created from. not a bot, its talking about the illusion of debt that's mechanized, artificial.

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Very similar to an earthship design , I get you are Canadian and the temperature are extreme in the winter , how do you know the degrees for your area for the solstice and the sun angle ?