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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:53:53 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>howdytom</author>
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			<![CDATA[It would seem that there's lots of talk about super insulated air tight passive housing, I assume they still use fridges/freezers(source of heat) to store perishable foods, why don't they have cellar/larder/cold stores ?<br /><br />tom]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:40:02 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>tony</author>
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			<![CDATA[Because they are too warm indoors and the design prohibits cold bridges that would happen in the case of a larder ( uninsulated to out doors<br /><br />Cellars are uncommon I intend to have one in my new house but that too will be within the thermal envelope.<br /><br />A shed out building or garage could be used?]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:02:41 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>fostertom</author>
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			<![CDATA[You can create a cold larder (north facing, sunless, perhaps half-buried in the earth bank behind) outside the envelope, with insulated internal door. Fridge/freezer cd live in there, if its back (radiator, compressor etc) could be sealed into a fresh air box ventilated to outside, or the fresh air box cd be part of the HRV's air intake so the fridge's electrical heat could help to warm the incoming air. Then the other 5 faces of the fridge wd help keep the larder nice and cold.]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:28:07 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>biffvernon</author>
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			<![CDATA[It was pretty common in the 18th century and earlier for larders to be sited on the north-east corner of the house with small unglazed windows with fly screens and thick walls.  I visited a 17th century house recently that actually had a freshwater spring in the larder, keeping the room particularly cool.]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:56:05 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>Rachel</author>
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			<![CDATA[I have a pantry on the north face of my straw bale house. I have very a large stone inside it which I keep milk and cheese on. Food lasts well in there.]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:46:21 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>howdytom</author>
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			<![CDATA[So why arn't they part of a greenbuild spec, especially Passive house ?<br /><br />tom]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:00:06 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>James Norton</author>
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			<![CDATA[Don't fridges and freezers provide useful internal heat gains...? <br /><br />Also wouldn't you need and airlock lobby to the (colder) pantry (perhaps off the main lobby), however doesn't this make meal preparation a bit of a backwards-and-forwards-doors-opening-and-closing-sort-of-affair...?<br /><br />J]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:01:45 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>biffvernon</author>
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			<![CDATA[Fridges and freezers provide most internal heat gains in warm weather and less in cold weather - not exactly ideal for heating your house.<br /><br />Our freezer is in an unheated outhouse.]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:53:37 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>tony</author>
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			<![CDATA[But then the freezer is working unnecessarily hard in the summer and in the winter you are wasting the heat it produces.]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:49:52 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>howdytom</author>
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			<![CDATA[Sorry tony,<br />       first you would need to know the construction of biff's outhouse before passing judgement !.<br />in winter the hot side should be inside the house.... in summer ?. but the cold side should always be in the coolest available room, outhouse, even cellar. Perhaps the hot side should preheat the hot-water supply or could we do without them altogether. Having built a house that requires little energy to heat/cool it, is the first step, next we need to rationalise all the other sources of wasted energy.]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:42:33 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>biffvernon</author>
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			<![CDATA[Thankyou, Tom.  My freezer is in a massively built brick barn with no windows and a lot of ventilation.  It is in the summertime coolest spot we have.  In the winter the heat is not entirely wasted since it allows our fruit and vegetable store to remain frost-free.]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:54:08 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>James Norton</author>
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			<![CDATA[To be honest wasn't actually thinking of using the fridge to heat he house on its own, just a bit of useful gain. Compared with the 'going-in-and-out-to-the-barn-in-winter' method would of thought that an efficient fridge might edge it....? <br /><br />However.. I've not actually tried to source an A++ or "topten.ch" fridge..? Perhaps the 'going-in-and-out-to-the-barn-in-winter' method might have cost advantages...<br /><br />J]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:24:52 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>hoya105</author>
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			<![CDATA[we have put a north-facing larder on our wooden house, then picked up some lovely welsh slate when on holiday, to make the shelves, put a screened (no rats!) hole in the floor, and made zinc-panelled doors for it. It stays beautifully cool summer and winter and i keep almost all foodstuffs in it!]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:37:11 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>howdytom</author>
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			<![CDATA[hoya 105,<br />More details please, walls, roof etc are the doors thick insulation<br />tom]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:09:55 +0100</pubDate>
		<author>Oliver</author>
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			<![CDATA[your design sounds interesting.<br />Any chance of some hpotos of the floor and the zinc doors?<br />great idea!]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>howdytom</author>
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			<![CDATA[Has hoya 105 disappeared ?]]>
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