s.f. green festival straw bale presentation
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S.F. Green Festival Straw Bale PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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Resources - www.hware.com/sb
Website about our home: this slideshow, ��� links to resources, ��� pictures, floorplan, elevations, details, solar system, and much more