2006 EcoHome Tour Houses on Salt Spring Island
Sustainable Building Forum and Eco-Home Tour 2006
from: http://www.saltspringenergystrategy.org/housing.htm
Eagle Ridge Drive Off-grid hemp straw bale home with water catchment system, greywater system and irrigated gardens, solar power, low EMR wiring, and hydronic radiant floor heating.
Sarah Way Off-grid, award winning, ultra-healthy insulated rammed earth home with radiant floor heating, low EMR wiring, milk paints, AC & DC lighting, and wind generator.
Mt. Maxwell Road Cob house in progress. Cob walls and cob fireplace. Plans are to be off-grid using mostly wind power and some solar. Another planned feature is radiant in-floor heating.
Sun Eagle Water catchment, storage and filtration system using commercial water storage tanks. Rainwater is used for all household needs, drilled well supplies water-conserving garden irrigation.
North View Place Artists’ gallery and studio house. Water catchment from metal roofs provides year-round water requirements, including garden irrigation. Purpose-built concrete water storage tanks also act as house foundation. Water filtration and purification system. Pond under construction. Hydronic radiant in-floor heating system, lumber for house harvested and milled on-site. Salvaged Victorian trim.
Isabella Point Road Certified organic farm. 600 square foot wood-frame passive solar design cottage with roof-mounted solar thermal evacuated tube collector system. Radiant in-floor hydronic heating using a combination of wood and solar.
Vesuvius Bay Road Complete energy retrofit plus solar hot water system of a modest, 1950s pre-cut Beaver Lumber cottage. Demonstrates energy and material savings using an existing home rather than building new.
Desiree Drive Environmentally friendly cob house. Salt Spring Island's first permitted cob dwelling. Recycled blue jean insulation, beams from own trees, radiant floor heating, masonry stove, and cordwood cob wall.
Ontario Place House built with I-Wood milled lumber—a modified wood frame system that provides structural strength, reduces shipping weight, saves material, and reduces the number of trees needed to build a home.
Carlin Avenue Energy-efficient super-insulated wood frame house with contra-flow masonry heater, triple-glazed Heat Mirror windows, passive solar sunspace, heat recovery ventilator, and solar hot water system.
