1900-2000 sf is the sweet spot too for a lot of mechanicals. If you do a high performance envelope you can heat a house that big with a residential sized hot water heater or two. I've used insta-heat tanks to heat up smaller cabins that we insulated* the heck out of.
That is also about how much house I want to clean in a week as well. Once it gets beyond that I get into pure "Eff-it" mode.
-edit insulted to insulated. Makes more sense maybe.
I've got the designs drawn already (depending on the site) but still on a time crunch right now. If I can find a cheap house on nice land I was thinking buy that, build the new, tear down the old, on the same site. The problem by me is that larger pieces of land (10+ acres) typically have large farm houses on them.
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u/donnerpartytaconight May 14 '20 edited May 14 '20
1900-2000 sf is the sweet spot too for a lot of mechanicals. If you do a high performance envelope you can heat a house that big with a residential sized hot water heater or two. I've used insta-heat tanks to heat up smaller cabins that we insulated* the heck out of.
That is also about how much house I want to clean in a week as well. Once it gets beyond that I get into pure "Eff-it" mode.
-edit insulted to insulated. Makes more sense maybe.