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What are the actual benefits of a 'passive house'?

Lisa Miles
On my lunchtime walk around town I pass by a construction site on a local residential street where an old house has been demolished and a couple of ‘passive houses’ are being built on the patch of land. 


I don’t know an awful lot about passive houses but I’m wondering if they are really worth the £699,995 price tag that’s being asked for them? 


They’re basically a three bedroom bungalow with two bedrooms in the roof space (dormers and skylight as windows) and one bedroom downstairs with an open plan kitchen/diner/lounge. A standard three bedroom house in the town goes for anywhere around £300 to £400k.


Can you really justify the extra £300k+ price tag for a passive house’? 

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    Thanks Mark, yes, this is an excellent talk, not least because he did a great deal with his own hands (even more than we did!)  It would be good to have a discussion with him.  I haven't had another look at the talk yet, though I have a memory of being both envious wrt some aspects and not really agreeing with him on others.  And he did his own calculations while I relied on someone else to handle the PassivHaus Planning Package (PHPP) which is the humungous spreadsheet which handles the heat management
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    Thanks Mark, yes, this is an excellent talk, not least because he did a great deal with his own hands (even more than we did!)  It would be good to have a discussion with him.  I haven't had another look at the talk yet, though I have a memory of being both envious wrt some aspects and not really agreeing with him on others.  And he did his own calculations while I relied on someone else to handle the PassivHaus Planning Package (PHPP) which is the humungous spreadsheet which handles the heat management
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