Family builds green house around house for extra heat

[Irving]

I can't decide if this is a brilliant idea, or a stupid idea. I'm leaning toward stupid. It probably has the desired effect during winter, but it's got to be way more expensive than normal (and still very effective) methods of insulating your home. Seems like it'd be miserable in the summer. The only thing I like so far is that the exterior of the house would theoretically stay nicer, longer. I'm only a few minutes into the video right now, so sorry in advance if it turns out to be 20 minutes of pure stupid.

[Irving]

At one point they say that it can be -2 Celsius (28.5 F) outside, and be 20 Celsius (68 F) on their "roof." At first I was impressed, until I realized that I've sat in my house all this week working from home and it's been about 20-28 F outside, and my house easily maintained 68 F by itself with only me in it all day long.

[Ah Pook]

I was in one of the larger green houses, in Longmont, today. No heating system and it was comfortable to warm. Walking through the plants thinking "I could live in here". It was a little humid because of the side humidifiers. If I thought a green house could be that nice in the winter, at my house, I'd build one. Even around the house. It could block the wind.

[ray1970]

All I can imagine is mold, mildew, and wood rot.

[mtnrider]

It's just like living in Florida

[crashdown]

I watched a good part of the video on another website.
They don't seem like stupid people at all, pretty sure they have quite a few things figured out regarding humidity and excess heat.
What I found hard to believe was the 84k cost. Seems like it would have been quite a bit more as elaborate as it is.

[hatidua]

What I found hard to believe was the 84k cost.

Stockholm, Sweden. Not much of anything is cheap in Scandinavia.

[BushMasterBoy]

Oh hail...

[Alpha2]

All I can think of is hailstorms.

[HoneyBadger]

People who live in glass houses...