Eco-living goes posh – answers
questions
- How does the reporter describe this house? as a ‘posh palace’
- How many bedrooms are there? 7
- Name two other special features. a sauna and cinema
- What did the house used to be? a dairy farm
- What phrase does the reporter use to explain that the house is for sale? ‘on the market’
- How much energy does the house use? 10% of that normally required to run a house
- How is heat loss controlled? by making the house airtight
- What does the ‘sophisticated ventilation system’ do? it allows a controlled amount of filtered air into the house every two hours
- How is the house heated? by solar panels
- Where is the heat stored? underground (in rocks)
- How long can heat be stored? from summer to winter
- How does the house get its water? it ‘harvests it from the roof (run-off rainwater)
- What is ‘on-site’? a sewage treatment plant
- How does the developer describe his house? one in a million
- Who has been using airtightness for the past 30 years? the Scandinavians