The 7 Rust Project is likely the most sustainable residential rehab ever done in Western Massachusetts. We converted an 800.s.f. single story, 1948 oil burning house with virtually no insulation, into a state of the art, sustainable home:

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• 1600 s.f.

• Two story, four bedroom

• 6.8kw solar

• Close-to-Net-Zero

• Dense-pack cellulose interior insulation

• Gutex wood-fiber exterior insulation

• Attic is R80 loose pack cellulose

• HVAC via high efficiency minisplit heat pumps

 

Many of the products used in construction were surplus, reclaimed or recycled. (The floors, for example, are 150-year -old douglas fir reclaimed from a demolished motel.)  New products were responsibly sourced from local resources whenever  possible.

 

This was our third major construction undertaking.