| A lady friend of mine has this nice tourism project of building a vacation resort around a small private lake (beautiful site)in Northern New Brunswick. She would like to build approx 5 cabins and is interested to base the concept on renewable energy. She won't do the work herself and she wants to have the cabins site assembled from prefab parts.
The cabins will be small 1 or 2 bedrooms on concrete post foundation with full service inside each (washroom and kitchen) and will sit close to the lake and surrounded by trees except for a few removed for the view on the lake.
A central laundry shed will be available for users and will be more exposed to sunlight (further away from trees).
I advised her to :
- - design for passive solar and superinsulation of the cabins
- - find yourself a very collaborative plumber and knowledgeable handyman
- - build the south wall of the laundry shed of solar water collectors like Gary's from www.builditsolar.com, with a large drain back heat storage tank underneath the floor.
- - have a radiant heat floor loop installed in the cabins
- - plan for space heating (just to keep them from freezing) when the cabins are not in use and water heating when in use + small wood stove when cabin in use
- - dig trenches to bring water to the cabins (4 water pipes: 2 for space heating and 2 for cold and hot water lines, 1 sewer pipe)
- - install pumps to pump the sewer up away from the lake to the sceptic tank.
- - bring the grid in and keep the wind mill grid tie for later project
- - forget pv
She suggested insulating the floors of the cabins with urethane foam to keep the critters out. I told her that could oblige her to put the radiant floor loop above and pour a light slab with tiles on top. That could make for an easy to maintain floor surface and safe for wood stove use.
I think the hardest part will be to find a plumber collaborative enough to do to the plumbing
What do you think of my suggestions?
Am I shooting to high for this lady who is new to all this.
Thanks for your help,
Martin
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