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International Passive House Open Days (mid-year)

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We had about 40 people through the house on Saturday morning. Thanks to Andy from Envirotecture , Trent & Garrett from Red Cedar Constructions , and Jason from Logikhaus who were on hand to help with the specialist questions. The next IPHA Open Days are November 10 - 12th .

2023 May

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May was definitely cool and really felt like the start of winter (median temperature 12 °C). The HRV was solidly in the heating season after the first week of the month, and the split system was to heat to 23 °C during peak solar production for most of the month. Outside temperatures ranged from 3 to 24 °C, while inside we were a comfortable 18.4 to 24.2 °C. We have opted to keep the house in the World Health Organisation temperature range (> 18 °C) during the heating season because we are very comfortable sleeping with a blanket on the bed. Temperature from inside and outside the house as the percentage of hours in 0.5 °C bins. I've scaled the temperature in hope that I will be able to use the temperature range for all months. Methods: I have taken the 5 minutely data from the wirelessTag sensors and calculated the median temperature for each hour and determined the proportion of hours falling inside of the 20 - 25 °C target temperature (using the R functions 'aggrega...