s.f. green festival straw bale presentation

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The Accidental Straw Bale Homeowners

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Presented by Brenda and Chuck Horton

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Green Festival Rocks!

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Garbage Turned into Art.

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S.F. Green Festival After Party at Temple.

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Outline

•  The aesthetic beauty of a straw bale home.

•  The technical details of straw bale home.

•  How building and living in a straw bale home has shaped our lives.

• Q & A Time

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Brenda and Chuck Horton

•  Moved to the Foothills from the Bay Area in 2000.

•  Own an online business training and software company called Hware (HumanityWare).

•  Use virtual technologies to run business from straw bale home.

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Stone path and deciduous wisteria ���vines leading to our entrance.

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This is where we run our company

Hware.com, HumanityWare.

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Luna Sagrada - Sacred Moon.

During the Winter season, we love to sit in the Great room and watch the moon

rise as it lights up the entire room.

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Entrance to the Great Room. .

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Great Room

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Great Room

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Reclaimed trusses from ���lumber mill in Forest Hill.

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Concrete floors unstained and unsealed. The color came from leaves and native red soil.

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It’s a GREAT room to have parties!

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Views from Great room.

Autumn leaves 2010

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Sunrise from Great Room.

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Neighbors walking by the Great Room.

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Kitchen and Great Room.

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Open Kitchen

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Our neighbor hanging ���out by kitchen window.

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Curved walls and built-in niches throughout.

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Reclaimed sinks and doors throughout.

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Compost

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Preparing our organic garden rooftop that ���houses our well equipment.

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2.25 miles of hiking trails to take breaks from sitting ���in front of our computer monitors all day.

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Hiking on our trials through the Manzanita.

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Stunning Sunsets

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Breathtaking Sunsets

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And the Bear River near by to relax.

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Sustainable Building Techniques

•  Straw Bale Exterior Walls •  Strawboard Interior Walls (Prestowall) •  Earth Plasters with Lime Plaster & Lime Wash for Exterior Walls •  Earth Plasters with Mica/Lime Texture for Interior Straw Bale Walls • Clay and Wall Paints from Bioshield Paints (no VOCs) for Interior

Strawboard Walls • No VOC Stains from Bioshield Paints •  Post & Beam Framing • Roll Form Metal Roof (life time roof, fire safe, no waste of materials

or package) •  SIPs (Structurally Insulated Panels) for Roof Structure •  Insulation - UltraTouch natural cotton fiber insulation •  Slab on Grade •  Stain Concrete Slab, and Flagstone for Floors • Radiant Heat •  Passive Cooling with central Evaporative Cooloer

Sustainable Building Techniques

•  Active Solar System – Uni-Solor Roll on Photovoltaic Panels, Charge Controller, Inverter & Batteries •  Passive Solar Design •  Recycled Wood for Trusts, Engineered Wood •  Pressure Treated Wood - ACQ (Ammonia, Copper and Quaternary

Ammonia) not CCA - (Chromated, Copper, Arsenate) •  Local Crushed Gravel Driveway, DG, Pavers and Flagstone •  Loewen Windows made from Certified Sustainable Forest Products (see

Loewen Enviro Statement) • Day Lighting with Solar Tubes and Skylights • High Efficiency Lighting • Grey Water Plumbing for future Grey Water System •  Local Artisans •  Local Furniture • High Efficiency Appliances • High Efficiency Fireplace – Rumford Fireplace • High Efficiency Windows

Sustainable Building Techniques

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Foundation

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It All Starts with Raw Land

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Radiant Floor Main Lines

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Laying the radiant floor heating.

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Pouring the Slab

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Finishing the Slab

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Keep Slab Wet for 2 Weeks for Better Curing and Finish

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Framing

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Post and Beam Framing��� Entry & Great Room

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Building Rumford Fireplace

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Garage & First Floor Framing

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SIPs���Structurally Insulated

Panels

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Stacks of SIPs

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SIPs Installing on Roof

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SIPs Installing on Roof

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SIPs Installing on Roof

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SIPs from Inside

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Straw Bale

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The Bales Arriving

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The first bales installed.

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Working those Bales

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Straw Bale from Inside

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Preparing the Bales

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Interior Bale Wall

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Exterior Bale Wall

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Bales from Interior

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Exterior Bale Wall

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Bales Installed and Ready for��� Earth Plaster

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Electrical in Straw Bales

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Typical Wall Section

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Earth and Lime Plaster

Earth Plasters with Lime Plaster & Lime Wash for Exterior Walls

Earth Plasters with Mica/Lime Texture ���for Interior Straw Bale Walls

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Putting on Earth Plaster

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Earth and Lime Plaster

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Every���Straw Bale���

Home������

Got Have���A Truth���Door

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Strawboard Interior Walls (Prestowall) ���

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Roll Form Roofing

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Installing Uni-Solar Panel

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Installing the Metal Roof

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Installing the Metal Roof��� with Uni-Solar Panels

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The Solar System

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Uni-Solar PVL-128 Photovoltaic Panels on our roof

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Solar Equipment

Solar Panels Combiner Boxes

Charger Controllers Solar Boost 50s

Inverter Trace SW4024

Xantrex Grid Tie Ac Disconnect

DC Disconnect

Solar Circuit���Breakers

Container 2 - Deep Cycle Forklift Batteries (1085 amps)

Outback Power Panel

2 - Deep Cycle Forklift Batteries (1085 amps)

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Solar System

•  Photovoltaic Panels - 24 Uni-Solar PVL-128, Field Applied Flexible Roofing Laminate Photovoltaic Panels

•  Inverter - Trace SW4024, Advanced Sine Wave Power Conversion Center

•  6000 Watt 120 / 240 Volt AC Autotransformers, used for running our well

•  Batteries - 2 General Battery 85-21 1055ah Industrial Batteries - 12v Set

•  Outback Power Panel •  Charge Controllers - 2 Solar Boost 50 •  2 Combiners

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Passive Solar Design – Block Summer Sun

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Passive Solar Design – Let Winter Sun In

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Other Special Features

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Reclaimed Wood

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Sunny enjoying������

Our Rumford���Fireplace������

rumford.com

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Concrete Floors������

Stained by Mother Nature

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Reclaimed Doors���

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Reclaimed Sinks���and���

Mirrors

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Buffalo Grass

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Roll Formed Metal Roof

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Flagstone in Sand Paths

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The Model ���and Evaluations

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Side Evaluations

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The Model

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Resources and Q&A

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