This large modern/contemporary residence features many sustainable and energy saving attributes. This house was built from the ground up in Mountain Brook on 10 acres of land with a pond and horse pasture. This home features:
- Geothermal heating and cooling
- Solar panels for generating electricity during daylight hours and storing the energy in batteries for use during non-daylight hours with the ability to take the home “off the grid”
- Hydronic (water) floor heat throughout the home (the same that is used out west in mountain areas)
- Spray Foam insulation
- Rain screen exterior veneers using Hardie panel, cedar planks, and corrugated metal panels to decrease heat gain into the home
- Steel standing seam sloping roofs and white reflective membrane flat roof to decrease heat gain into the home
- A water well for domestic water independent of “the grid”
- Polished concrete floors throughout the main level and sanded and sealed OSB subfloor as the finished floor upstairs.
- Wood burning stove
This home was completed in Summer, 2014.