This is a good book. Does provide a step by step introduction to how to build things kzfaq.infoUgkxhgbP-6hUnXu_QRaoHgLztgsI0YF3HqR0 , also does offer some steps. Includes pictures to give you ideas for layouts and such. If you are looking for a guide, this is not exactly what you want. But if you are trying to familiarize yourself with the way that pole barn building and other out buildings, are made, then this will work just as you need it to. A few things in this book are a barn (of course), detached garage, storage building, and coops.

Great to see a community building something normal folks might dream of affording.

I feel like these two guys were defending their masters thesis for building best practices with Matt just grilling them... They certainly passed with flying colors!

Median home price in Bozeman is around 850K... in a state that is in the bottom five of average salaries. The math doesn't compute. My Montana town has a 114K difference between what the median salary affords you and what the median home price actually is. More communities need affordable developments like these.

It's good to see a builder going after the affordable market with quality and design details from a core perspective that are generally reserved for the higher end of the market. Everyone deserves to have a well built home that is energy efficient and comfortable in even the coldest climates.

I can't believe Matt is reviewing a house that is less than 3 million and less than 9,000sqft. Never thought I'd see the day.

We need to see this level of craftsmanship become the standard everywhere. The efficiency and quality will make these houses extremely long-lasting and affordable in the long-term!

Finally got to see cold weather details with advanced building techniques. Absolutely loved this.

This is my favorite video of the year! Such a cool project, nice work!

Just incredible to see this level of detail and thoughtful thinking in home design on a more affordable end of the spectrum. The ultimate goal for Passive House design is that most, if not all, homes should be built to this degree of performance and air tightness. High quality and comfort shouldn't be restricted to the ultra-wealthy.

Matt, thanks for pushing the envelope and making them show us the basement.

Great episode. So nice to see a builder putting the care and detail into an affordable home.

Nice to see house construction that build details to make energy efficient

The representatives in this video are great, noble, managers of construction. So happy to see their knowledge of their project

I really enjoyed seeing so many stages of the builds in the works -- a lot of details were shown that I haven't seen in other videos, especially around the window bucks. Thanks to the crew for the welcome to the Build Show, and thanks Matt for sharing this great content!

Great work, I recently built a new home and had to teach my builder most of these concepts. Nice to see true professionals doing it right.

Love it when you look at more affordable housing! Matt: from a building science perspective you might be interested in learning about the noble gasses like Argon/Krypton/Xenon (on the right side of the periodic table) and why they're used in all your windows ;) It was unintuitive to me at first why heavier gasses would be better insulators. As a bonus (and for a chuckle), check out Cody's Lab's video "Breathing all the Noble Gasses!"

A truly inspirational video Matt! Those who know better are building better! Making the effort to put forward the best building practices at ALL housing prices points is better for our communities, our county, and the Earth.

Great video, Matt! Some cool production adaptions. Going with detached garages, some combined with the neighbors. Interesting.

This is an awesome development. Huge kudos to these builders.

So awesome. Love what y'all are doing

I am so excited about home building these days. This video is a great introduction to the various phases of a single home's journey to passive perfection. I can't wait for my next home!!

Fantastic project!! Love the attention to detail

I love the Build Show. New construction techniques and materials and all the way to the screws used.

Amazing engineering and I love the quality of workmanship. Congratulations.

Great video. Love the project. Good homes and good deeds.

Liked the house- Those Cove heaters along the ceiling- stayed in a log cabin and they had those. nice house. I would feel good about buying one of these.

Omg the sunglasses tan line😂

Absolutely beautiful homes. Hope to see this catch on in texas.

So glad to see a regular house (middle class) being built to these standards!!! I'm trying to work with a modular company to modify their typical system to get us close to under 1 ACH.

Exceptional work. I have been seeking a builder in Spokane who can build to these materials and details but most what I see is basic housewrap. We need a builder who knows these new processes.

incredible place!! many thanks!!!

So very nice to see such attention to ensuring the continuous exterior insulation! The only thing that left me wanting were the eaves of modest length but I don't actually know the climate zone. Perhaps they are sufficient.

Those houses looked well built. Good job!

The Radiant heat is quite common in the upper west. I have 10 units in my house. But my basement is in floor Radaint hot water with a Propane boiler. Of the 10 units I only use 3 and then only sporadically. We have a Kozy Heat Fireplace that's around 77% efficient and we burn wood to heat the main floor. Our basement is ICF's and the main floor is 2x6 construction with 1" of exterior foam and 3" of Closed Cell inside. The great room, where the fireplace is, is around 800 SF and has a lot of glass. The back of the house, bedroom, office, pantry and entry are always comfortable and we never have had to heat them other than the electric in floor (DietraHeat) in the bathroom. The radiant cove in the great room is primarily used on moderate temperature days where the fireplace would drive you out of the house. I'm considering a mini split for the great room. We rarely would benefit from AC, but it would be nice on those infrequent hot days. The Heat Pump aspect is more appealing. For a 1500 SF house that's otherwise all electric including a well pump, our annual electric runs around$1300

Awesome! You won’t see this type of construction detail in Rural Utah where I live! Very little has changed here since the last 50 years

Great stuff, Mr Risinger! You are the Home Builder I wanted to be. I'm not jealous, at all...

I worked in a window manufacturer, for 4 years 2015-2019, the Krypton got very popular towards the end. it's such a pain in the ass, b/c it took so long to fill the window cavity. But they said the Krypton (our engineers said its chemically heavier, therefore providing a denser barrier against the elements) idk if they were just trying to justify it too us, b/c we were production based and these slowed us down a lot. However, they guarded that Krypton like crazy, as they said it was 10x more expensive than the argon

Great tour. It's awesome to see such great detail be put into affordable houses. Thanks Matt!

Interesting show thanks Matt

super high quality build, these houses must be super quiet 🤫 too, really nice being that close to neighbors.

Used to work there, good company

Mass production can build very affordable houses. People complain about looking the same but it's better than an apartment or a row house.

Matt's all zipped up against the chill while the other guy's in short sleeves. LOL We know who's local!

Matt, what is the benefit of going this route with the Zip, insulated OSB and housewrap instead of just using the Zip-R with the insulation attached to the Zip? Also, how are corners handled when you have the insulation attached to the OSB or Zip? Thanks.

Comfort Cove heaters are great. I installed them years ago. On demand instant heat and savings when no one's home. I'm doing the same thing with zip board and 3 in poly, but have hung furring strips every 16 to create a rain screen and to attach the signing on the outside as the rain screen as per Matts videos and "the perfect wall" system. Everything dries to the inside of the house, which means you can't use closed cell insulation inside. I have the rain screen on the outside of the polyester before the vinyl and metal siding combo. No tyvek. I covered my polyiso with a spray on liquid *vapor permeable* air barrier, and the zip system seams and penetrations too, but I think it's belt and suspenders. Could not get an answer from perfect wall guy in Boston. Good looking out with that iron worker construction helmet. Safety first bro.

Great stuff

Yall should come show florida how to build houses those look way better quality and that's the cleanest new construction site I have ever seen

great video!

Poured concrete walls in the basement is teh best way to go

Just for everyone’s information, the small little blue house with the yellow door is listed for a cool $650,000 dollars. So, not really sure I would classify this neighborhood as modestly priced. 2401 Blue Silos Way, Bozeman.

Awesome ideas

Cute house! I can help wonder why no spray foam at the rim joists. The floor covering in the bathroom reminds me of the "battleship" lino used in commercial in the 50s & 60s, guess nothing is new, it just comes back. Just think its too bad they have to use dimensional lumber when I joist is so much better a product. But bonus to them for using the lumber packaging from the windows!

Good content. 👍

If you want to know how to really insulate a building in this northern tundra - go watch some of the cold climate institute videos about Alaska and Canada. they will blow your mind on insulation, rain screens, crawl spaces.

They could save a lot of money going to a heat pump air handler with heat strip, the exterior system is really cool, could be applied to a sea can house with a few tweaks

Cove heaters: a first saw one in a house i was touring with RE agent. I asked if it was just electric resistance heating and he had some story about how they are electric but more efficient than baseboard. I could tell he didnt know resistance is resistance. And cove heaters now have this odd urban myth that they are some kind of magic resistance heater. Theyre all the rage and popular im new $2m builds where i live.

Love these build shows, and kudos to Langlas for building good performance for a good price. i still miss having som ventilation behind the cladding though, but are all houses using pvc cladding?

Great stuff. We need WAY more affordable high performance houses in this country.

these are cool!

Trying to understand why they're building this way rather than with integrated foam like a Zip-R type product... Is there cost savings? Looks like more material and labor with all the Tyvek and OSB! What am I missing?

nice to see quality on smaller homes. seems like only the big boys get the good stuff.

For the non-professional builder viewer, I enjoy seeing the “build science” systems used to create an energy efficient, yet high quality living environment. As a 12x homeowner, one that just downsized from 6k sqft 20yr old golf course home in N.Dallas, to a 3.5k sqft new build golf course home, here in NW AR, I am so looking forward to living in a new high-tech build, focused on efficiency, and a healthy living environment. Seeing the new advances in bldg science make me think I should plan on building a new home in another 10 yrs or so…

Bridger View’s market-rate homes are being sold by ERA Landmark. $550,000 - $775,000. Bridger View’s below-market homes are being sold by Headwaters Community Housing Trust (“You own the home and lease the land, which is held in trust for the community.“)

As Bozeman seems to have an affordability problem and you've referenced this project as being some sort of public-private partnership, what's the price point for the smaller and larger houses? It looks like a brilliant little community, but very curious about what price point they're trying to hit (and how much that price point is subsidized). The unconditioned attics seem really strange, and I had the same question lots of others had about "why not ZIP-R" instead of the complex layering of exterior materials they're doing, but this is a whole heck of a lot better than any builder grade stuff. Really glad you did this video.

I am curious as to why they chose the materials they have for the outside sheathing. To me it seems like a cheaper alternative would be to use regular OSB first then either ZipR or polyiso and then regular Zip. Eliminates the need for the Tyvek for most siding choices. Also no blocking around windows would be needed and you can also oversize the rough opening an additional inch and use zip as your return piece for a solid and watertight rough opening.

Beautiful Montana. It’s a shame the locals are being priced out. Thanks for showing homes that don’t have over-the-top features. Aaron could always become a JC Penney catalog model, if this construction gig doesn’t pan out , he’s definitely got the look.

I wonder if the zip R stuff costs way more then the system of zip plus nail base and tyvek. I know tape exists that air seals OSB. Could you switch zip for OSB and tape the seams?

Awesome

Great episode. Was wondering what type of insulation will be used on the interior? Spray foam?

I was noticing that when you went down in the unfinished basement the PVC drain lines didn’t have purple primer do they use clear primer or just cement I would hate to think they would build the houses like that and not use primer. here in my state code doesn’t call for primer but me as a plumber since the late 80s will never not use primer I’ve been on to calls where so called plumbers didn’t use primer and the pipe from hot and cold weather caused the pipes to come apart but almost never have I been on a call where primer was used and the pipe came apart. So I’m a strong believer in primer I use both clear and purple primer clear in the house and purple underneath the house and I don’t mean clear cleaner I mean clear primer.

Surprising to see the supplemental heat installed up toward the ceiling-- I would have gone for having it down at the baseboard level.

Working class? Dam so for the people that actually do the work

Something funky going on with the image stabilization.

When adding the different thicknesses of foam. How are the fasteners in tornado or hurricane coded areas

Forbo Marmoleum (flooring). the new lino.

Great video and love the houses. Question: What's the LEED point they're getting for using 2x structure instead of engineered joists. I'm not familiar with that, and I'm curious what the LEED intent is there...

Does zip not offer a 3 inch foam? Just seems like a lot of work to put up sheathing twice

When I build my next house I can wait to insulate the crap out of it. I'm gonna find a passive home builder and go to town on the energy efficiency.

Man I want these guys to build my house. Can I fly the team to Washington?

If you are in Bozeman again, you should lookup Brandner Design

Matt, if I'd won the powerball lottery, the first business I'd have begun was high end custom homes. I'd have been in touch... A man still dreams time to time.

when moisture gets between the zip and the foam, how is it getting out?

Is there a Micro Lok mineral wool version ? Rather have that than fiberglass since pipes tend to get condensation

If you’re not first, you’re last!

Beautiful homes. My only negative comment about the project is there is no emphasis on passive solar. The project started with an empty large piece of land where all the lots and streets could be laid out so that passive solar was a dominant feature in the community. Such a design aspect would further reduce energy requirements in both heating and cooling.

Is there insulation in the wall cavity or did I miss that?

Krypton in the windows?? Wow even Superman can’t see through them. Some of the best building construction I’ve seen in a long time.

Krypton is a noble gas with the symbol Kr and atomic number 36. Fun Fact Krypton is one of the rarest gases on Earth, composing only 1 part per million of the atmosphere by volume!

Wondering why they wouldn't use Zip R vs. the OSB with XPS on it? Seems like an added cost layer that could have been solved with Zip R, while still having a nailbase. 🤔

1. EPS below grade not a good choice. Issue is that bugs will turn it into swiss cheese by burrowing tunnels in it for homes. Either use a fiberglass mat or get foam that has a pesticide in the foam so bugs won't tunnel through it. Another issue with EPS is that its insulation value degrades over time. 2. A better way for exterior insulation is to just use standard foam panels & 1x4 or 1x6 boards for the nail base for the siding. I suspect the OSB bonded foam insulation is considerable more expensive. 3. For the window buck, It would be ideal to use some ridge foam sandwiched between the wood frame and the wall frame as a thermal break, At the very least use some sill sealer as a thermal break.

Wow a non custom home builder that actually cares about quality! It’s a unicorn!!

It seems wasteful to have a full Zip system under a Tyvek system, but certainly impressive. No idea how these can be "affordable" given the attention to detail and costly system adds. Good tour, thanks to all.

Hey Matt, I’m in Bozeman. I have an excellent project for you to visit. Bozeman Cohousing off of Wagon Wheel. We’d need to set up a scheduled visit with the contractor/architect/owners’s rep.

I was just thinking the other day about how single-family dwelling new builds in my area ere NEVER below 300sqft. Everything that "affordable" are townhouse condominiums. So frustrating.

Hello. there is a layer between the siding and the OSB board. And is there a layer on the inside in front of the drywall sheet?

Cool community

Nice to see builders going the extra quality mile building working family homes.

what is the effective R Value to the wall system? Is there an interior poly & batt in the stud space? 2x6 wall?

Basement Floor joists Cross bridging or solid blocking ? Over 7 foot span?