The Science of Homes in Hawaii

[@jl9678]

Loved this interview. He said he had to untrain himself from the "nerdy high performance stuff" :) Two ancient but forgotten "high performance" tricks I saw in the background 1. Light colored walls. In a mild climate(I measured this last week in Dallas tx) a light colored wall can admit as little as 33% the radiation of a dark colored wall. 2. Transpiration. They have trees close to their houses. Trees through transpiration can reduce the neighboring air temp by as much as 10 degrees and provide additional shading to the walls and roof which cools the house even further. That's high performance

[@HomePerformance]

Good points, O!

[@acoenen2804]

Nice way to write off a vacation!

[@HomePerformance]

Haha, we don’t mess with the IRS. Those people are snakes.

[@tplanit]

Nice work Corbett. It's a good message that needs to be shared. I had an online chat with Blake a few months ago through the BPA forum. We discussed "Where are you? What works, what doesn't work and why?" Australia and Hawaii are similar in being generally misunderstood.

[@terrawattblake]

yeah, why doesn't anyone ask about how "houses in the continental united states" behave?

[@batmb1e]

Great post, I love his blog. Hawaii has such a diverse set of climates, it would be an amazing place to have a building science related business...glad your family got to experience it before the shutdown!

[@HomePerformance]

It was a much more interesting place than I expected. Felt different than any other place I’ve been.

[@terrawattblake]

hey thanks, man. glad to hear somebody actually reads it.

[@frankgall6]

Love it

[@10tenman10]

I think that tight houses should work in Hawaii just as much as elsewhere

[@terrawattblake]

absolutely. you can always un-tighten them by opening a window, anytime you want.

[@gunther1955]

Best way to turn a vacation into a writeoff....

[@tweake7175]

Sounds like its a lot like here just hotter.

[@HomePerformance]

I bet NZ is the closest thing to it

[@tweake7175]

@@HomePerformance the houses look very simular. We even do have some "single wall" type houses. And also the same problems.

[@terrawattblake]

got down to 36 degrees in my house one night, and I was like "awesome, not freezing." but some locales are hot for sure.