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by imeron 1719 days ago
Looking at the images for all these homes: why does all these new houses have tiny windows? Is the Alaskan landscape that bad to look at? :D
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Heating fuel is very expensive in bush Alaska, as is window glass. Small windows help with both.
Just went through some of this myself. The R value of very good triple pane glass is R5 or so.

About the same R value as a wall made of 2x4s with no additional. Or about the same a 1” of extruded foam.

So… pretty poor.