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Address
Site: 770 N. Westmor St.
Spring Green, WI 53588
Mailing: P.O. Box 304
Spring Green, WI 53588
www.poemhomes.org
POEM HOMES
modest homes for modern living
Features
The first Poem Home is under construction in Spring Green, Wisconsin (Sept 2018-Sept 2020). It’s a super-insulated, passive solar, 1208 square footprint home with the following features:
Mechanical & Thermal Envelope
- PV solar panels sized to offset a year’s energy use
- all-electric and fossil-fuel free
- ductless air-source heat pump (mini-split)
- ductless heat recovery ventilator (HRV)
- super-insulated Marathon hot water heater
- Water-Sense rated plumbing fixtures
- radon mitigation system
- 12″ thick double 2×4 wall with dense-pack cellulose R-45
- 24″ deep roof truss with vent channel and dense-pack cellulose R-80
- concrete slab on foam insulation R-20
- blower door tested to airtightness 0.7 ACH@50Pa
Interior
- 1048 sf interior area
- master bedroom with en suite bathroom, curb-less tiled shower
- second bedroom with adjacent bathroom, curb-less tiled shower
- streamlined kitchen with lots of counter and storage
- spacious living-dining room with 12 foot wide patio door
- vaulted ceilings
- locally milled rough-sawn storage loft
- custom cabinets
Exterior
- screened porch
- semi-attached 2-car garage
- standing seam concealed fastener steel roof
- natural finish wood siding
- cement board siding
- arbor/pergola shade structure
- Marvin fiberglass windows R-3.7
Landscape
- native stone retaining wall
- vegetable garden
- no-mow grass
- windbreak and shade trees
- prairie garden
- in-ground gutters with option for rain collection
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