St Martins 8 Homestar Home

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  • Architect: MCD Architecture
  • Builder: Ethos Homes
  • Engineer: Engco

Character home on steriods

  • 8 Homestar Certified Home
  • Blower door test result .6 air changes per hour (@ 50Pa)
  • European low E, argon filled, triple glazed, uPVC tilt and turn windows
  • Wolf heat recovery and ventilation system
  • Solar panels with Stiebel Eltron hot water heat pump
  • 135m2 living space + 40m2garage

This joint project between Ethos Homes and Character Builders resulted in a high performance home built in a Character style.

The home incorporates the five key features Ethos Homes builds are renowned for: a high performance foundation, increased wall depth, recessed thermally broken joinery, airtight thermal envelope and a ventilation system. The frames were partly panelised with the rigid barrier fixed in the factory and hi-abed into place, ensuring a weathertight lockable home in the shortest time possible. Ethos built the home to airtight when Character Builders took over to complete the look.

The benefits of an Ethos high performance home include low energy use, high quality indoor air, thermal comfort, operational savings and sustainability.

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Ethos Homes are qualified passive house and high-performance home builders, we are passionate about building homes that perform for you. We know what it takes to design and build your home to perform for you.

The signatures of an Ethos home are airtight, well insulated, mechanically ventilated with thermally broken double or triple glazed recessed joinery. We measure the airtightness of the homes we build so you can be assured of its performance

Peter is a Certified Passive House Tradesperson. Ethos Homes are proud members of the Passive House Institute of New Zealand, New Zealand Certified Builders Association, New Zealand Green Building Council and the Superhome movement.