Not yet, dymonite69 and thanks for asking. I plan to do summer and winter scatter plots, with standard deviations on each axis.
Have you looked at my more detailed recent whole-year plots, with discussions, in the last page of the forum that I linked to 5 posts earlier?
I feel I need the blower heater on in the kitchen or study for an hour or so on a few winter evenings. It does not warm the house. I seem to need it at about 19 degrees sometimes, but other times I don't need it at 15 degrees. I hardly ever feel I need it in the mornings, although the temperature is usually lower then.
Do it differently? No, not for the main part of the house. The lower floor at the west is not well insulated in the footings, and is partly shaded by a step in the line of the long north wall. (North walls MUST be in one line!) The upstairs bedroom in the west is a failure. It cannot be protected from extreme heat or cold. I would never again build a second floor at an inland site. However, I enjoy the view from the upstairs veranda. In general, the house could have been both cheaper and more efficient if it had been built on a flat site with no views to admire, or gum trees to avoid.
A neighbour's iron-bark, which had been stunted by a lightning strike, has now grown back to limit my winter solar gain.
Posted Friday 11 Jun 2010 @ 1:24:05 pm from IP
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