This document is a slideshow presentation about a straw bale home built by Brenda and Chuck Horton. It summarizes the sustainable building techniques used in construction including straw bale walls, earth plasters, solar panels, and more. The presentation provides photos documenting each stage of construction from framing to finishing touches. It highlights features like radiant floor heating, a metal roof, and the homeowners' use of the space.
5. 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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6. 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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7. Stone path and deciduous wisteria
vines leading to our entrance.
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8. This is where we run our company
Hware.com, HumanityWare.
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9. 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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10. .
Entrance to the Great Room.
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32. 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
33. 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
84. Charger Controllers
Solar Boost 50s
Solar Panels
Combiner Boxes
Solar Equipment
Inverter
Solar
Trace SW4024
Circuit
Ac
Breakers
Disconnect
Xantrex Grid Tie
DC Disconnect
Outback Power
Panel
2 - Deep Cycle Forklift Batteries
(1085 amps)
Container
2 - Deep Cycle Forklift Batteries
(1085 amps)
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85. 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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102. Resources - www.hware.com/sb
Website about our
home:
this slideshow,
links to resources,
pictures,
floorplan,
elevations,
details,
solar system,
and much more
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