RE: [papercreters] intruducing myself...

Hi Mary – Jo, Eric and Martin.

 

I am a Canadian from SW Ontario.  A small town between London and the U.S. Border at Sarnia/ Port Huron.  I have been interested in Strawbale, Papercrete and Annualized Geo Solar for  many years now.  I have 100 acres in a retirement property which has about 75 acres of bush.  I hope one day to build a very low maintenance retirement residence on my property which will have very low operating costs.  So far in my mind it is looking something like this.

 

Post and beam single story with the timber coming from my bush.

Large overhanging almost flat living roof.

Post and beam will be infilled with strawbales.

All strawbale voids will be filled with a lose straw/ papercete mix.

Papercrete sprayed stucco scratch coat and second coat.

Final coat will be a more traditional lime stucco

Heating will come from solar collectors which will deposit the bulk of the heat during the warm months into the ground under the home to be released gradually through the winter.

Wood stove back up if required.

 

I will likely build a shop on the property first using these techniques both as practice/learning experiences and just as importantly to get the local building inspector on side.  Martin you are correct in saying our biggest hurdle is getting our approvals.  I am not sure how it is in Quebec but here in Ontario if we can get an engineer to stamp our project than we don’t have too…. Much trouble.  Finding an engineer who wants to work with you and not build double triple and sometimes more redundancy into your project to cover his professional ass is sometimes more difficult than getting your permits.  

 

There are many Strawbale homes now built in Quebec if you can track some of them down and copy the way they went about getting their approvals it may make things a bit easier.

 

Nick B

 

Strathroy ON.

 

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From: papercreters@yahoogroups.com [mailto:papercreters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mary_hbp
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:30 AM
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [papercreters] intruducing myself...

 

Hello everyone,

My name is Mary-Jo, and me and my husband Eric just joined this group and we are trilled
with all the info we found because of you all. We live close to Montreal, Canada (as some of
you might know, our first language here is french so excuse my pour english). We were
looking at ways to build in green and we thought papercrete is a fabulous product. So we are
wondering if anybody have ever heard about papercrete project in our cold, north and snowy
country. We wanted to build a 20 x 30, 2 levels house and we were afraid about if all our
snow and rain would be a problem to this kind of construction. Is there any specific things we
should be thinking of doing to make sure our house will go through time (hopefully many
years...) ? Any advises will be good and really appreciated from us.

We really look forward to learn more about all this and hopefully get to know some of you
better.

Best regards to all of you,

Mary-Josee
Hugron-Bélisle Photographes
www.hugron-belisle.com

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