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From YouTube: How to Build a Better Home - Fireplace and Lighting
Description
In the next to final segment, green homebuilder Patty Shields talks about lighting and fireplace considerations when building a passive house. The segment is introduced by Arlington County AIRE Green Home Choice program manager Helen Reinecke-Wilt. http://freshaireva.us/2011/11/greenhomechoice/. Links to all nine segments can be found at http://environment.arlingtonva.us/energy/how-to-build-a-better-home/
A
Hello,
I'm
Helen
Reineke
world
of
Arlington
County's
initiative
to
rethink
energy
and
green
home
choice
program
you're
about
to
watch
one
of
a
series
of
videos.
We
call
how
to
build
a
better
home,
the
story
of
the
construction
of
a
passive
house.
We
hope
you'll
find
some
useful
tips
about
making
your
home
greener
and
more
cost-efficient,
whether
you're
building
a
new
home
or
simply
upgrading
your
present
one.
Here's
green
home
builder,
patty
shields
of
Metro
green
with
today's
tips
on
fireplaces
and
lighting
about
lowering
your
energy
bills
consume
less
energy
and
water.
B
B
One
of
the
important
things
we've
been
talking
about
is
air
tightness
in
the
house
and
when
you
have
a
fireplace
that
is
a
chimney,
basically,
your
air
leaves
the
house
well.
Luckily,
today
we
have
gas
fireplaces
and
it's
not
you
know
not
all
gas
fireplaces
are
the
same.
This
is
a
closed
combustion
gas
fireplace,
which
means
it
brings
the
air
in
from
the
outside
that
it
burns
and
it
expels
the
air
without
ever
venting
anything
from
the
inside
of
the
house.
B
All
we
get
is
the
radiant
heat
from
the
actual
unit,
which
is
really
great
for
this
house
in
particular,
because
it
doesn't
need
a
lot
of
heat,
but
also
to
make
sure
that
we
are
not
losing
that
hot
and
cold
air
we've
worked
so
hard
to
keep
in
the
house.
Lighting
has
come
a
long
ways
in
the
last
10
or
15
years.
B
Everyone
knows:
we've
been
moving
from
incandescent
bulbs,
too
complex
compact
fluorescent
bulbs
and
now
to
LED
lighting
eight
years
ago,
when
I
started
in
this
business,
an
LED
light
like
the
one
you
see
here,
cost
well
over
a
hundred
dollars.
Today
you
can
buy
them
at
home.
Depot
for
twenty-five
dollars,
these
energy-saving
lights,
reduce
the
electrical
usage
in
the
house
from
lighting
by
about
eighty-five
percent.
So
it's
a
really
impressive
savings
for
any
home.
B
A
critical
part
of
our
plan
with
this
house
is
to
make
sure
that
we
had
a
lot
of
natural
light
so
that
we
don't
need
to
use
a
lot
of
extra
electric
lighting.
This
house
has
an
extensive
array
of
windows
and
it
also
has
shading
on
the
exterior
so
that
in
the
summertime
we
don't
get
too
much
heat
through
those
windows.