Saltaire Homes, LLC
Tour an ENERGY STAR® and 4-star Built Green™ home! This model features solar-assisted hot water, hydronic zone heating, energy-efficient lighting and windows, and elegant flooring made from renewable and recycled materials. This home is over 15% more efficient than a conventional house – saving you money!
Green Living Features:
30 Year Roof
No one likes to replace a roof more often than necessary. It uses up resources (including your money!) and the old roofing usually ends up in a landfill. A 30-year roof is good looking, durable and has an efficient lifecycle cost.
Advanced Framing—Insulated Headers:
The headers (beams) over doors and windows have typically been a point of increased heat loss because they were made from laminated framing timbers with no insulation. The simple technique used for this home laminates a layer of rigid foam between 2X s where structurally possible to create insulated headers. This reduces heat transfer to keep the home warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
Advanced Framing—Overview
This home was designed by Mithun to be more energy efficient, using low- or no-cost ways to improve the energy efficiency of a home by improving the envelope beyond code. The envelope of a conventional house is the greatest source of heat loss, causing uncomfortable indoor temperatures.
Build Tight, Ventilate Right
“Build tight and ventilate right” is an approach important both to the homeowners’ comfort and to reducing the cost of heating and cooling. It’s an approach that also sets the stage for improving indoor air quality. Proper framing techniques, improved insulation and sealing systems eliminate construction voids preventing air leakage and draft. A thermally efficient, airtight envelope and super-insulated walls and ceiling minimize heat loss in winter, and heat gain in summer. One of the cost advantages of this home is that it doesn’t require expensive air conditioning to remain comfortable in the summer months and at the same time significantly reduces heating costs in the winter.
Cellulose Insulation
Cellulose is a highly effective and environmentally-friendly insulation material made from recycled newspaper fiber.
Cement Based Siding
Clemplank, Fiber-cement siding is highly durable; it doesn't split, holds paint longer and is more moisture-resistant than typical hardwood siding. Long lasting, low maintenance exterior finish products reduce replacement frequency, which means cost savings, reduced landfill impact, and fewer resources and time devoted to maintenance and replacement.
Ceramic Tile Flooring
The flooring and countertops chosen for this home add a great deal of style, beauty and ease-of-maintenance over the typical “non-green” choice. A “green” floor or counter top choice usually means a material that comes from recycled or renewable resources, or one that is not made with the kinds of synthetic materials that off-gas annoying or harmful compounds. Quite often this leads to simple, natural materials, such as stone or slate, or the beautiful ceramic tile you see in this home.
Detached Garage
A detached garage has many advantages. First is air quality. Because it is a separate building, emission from your car (and shop) are separated from living spaces. Also, there is no heat loss from the living spaces when you open the garage door.
Drought tolerant landscaping
Beautiful and natural is the inspiration for landscaping throughout High Point. The topsoils were amended with an addition of compost and organic materials. Drought-tolerant native plant species thrive in the local climate and tend to be more pest and disease resistant. The result is a garden that uses less water, has reduced maintenance and weeding required, and the naturally improved soils produce healthy, vibrant plant growth without the use of chemical amendments and pesticides. Using natural mulches and compost also creates a market for the recycling of yard and land clearing wastes, which keeps them out of landfills.
Effective Insulation
Properly installed insulation in walls, floors and attics results in better energy-saving performance and enhanced comfort.
Efficient Gas Dryer
An efficient natural gas dryer can greatly reduce your home’s energy costs.
Efficient Gas Range
Most professional cooks prefer the speed and control offered by a natural gas range. Isn’t it nice to know that it’s an energy-efficient choice as well!
Efficient Water Heater Placement
Small things can make a big difference! In this case the water heater is located within 20 feet of the point of highest use.
ENERGY STAR Light Fixtures
"These fixtures distribute light more efficiently and evenly than standard fixtures. They lower utility bills by lasting 10 times longer and using 75% less energy than incandescent fixtures. They have superior light quality, are flicker-free, emit no hum, start instantly, and come with a two-year warranty, which is double the industry standard. By replacing the five most frequently used lights in your home with ENERGY STAR qualified lighting, you can save about $60 per year in energy costs.
ENERGY STAR Low E Primer Vinyl Windows
Traditional windows lose heat through the frame, through the glass and let in cold air between the window and the framing material surrounding it. These Energy Star qualified windows have a Low-e coating that reflects heat in on cold nights and out on summer days. It not only increases the R-value of the window by 50%, it makes indoor space much more comfortable year 'round.
ENERGY STAR qualified dishwasher
ENERGY STAR qualified dishwasher uses 25% less energy than a standard model, saving about $100 over its lifetime.
ENERGY STAR Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
- Use 75% less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer.
- Advanced phoshors eliminate color shift
- Replacing a 100-watt incandescent with a 32-watt CFL can save you at least $30 in energy cost over the life of the bulb.
- By replacing the five most frequently used lights in your home with ENERGY STAR qualified lighting, you can save about $60 per year in energy costs.
ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerator
ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerator uses less energy in one year than a 75-watt light bulb.
ENERGY STAR qualified windows
ENERGY STAR qualified windows reduce heat flow for greater comfort, reduced condensation and lower energy costs.
Environmentally Friendly Building Materials
You will see throughout this home attention paid to materials that are friendly to the environment, low in maintenance and durable. Another criteria for selecting “green” building materials is indoor air quality. Attention was paid to use materials, substrates and surfaces that would eliminate or minimize “off-gassing” that home owners often find irritating or harmful to health. In a tour of this home, you just might miss that “new home smell.” That’s a good thing!
Gas Rinai Tankless Whole House Hot Water Heating System
The tankless Combination Hydronic Heat-Hot Water System is both efficient and very comfortable. This system combines heat and hot water in an open system. In this home, additional heat is secured from roof-mounted solar hot water collectors. Remote digital controls allow you to set the water temperature exactly how you'd like it.
Hardiplank from the James Hardie Corporation
This cement and fiber siding is known for high durability and low maintenance or replacement costs. It’s guaranteed for 50 years.
Heat Recovery Ventilation
The EPA says that indoor air is 3 to 5 times more polluted than outside air. In older, draughty homes, fresh air seeped in naturally just as heated air escaped to the great outdoors. With a tightly built envelope, a quiet, dependable system automatically removes stale air from the home and replaces it with fresh air, while at the same transferring the heat from the indoor air to the incoming fresh air. In summer the system works in reverse, removing heat from the incoming air. In this home, the entire ventilation process is centrally controlled. A schedule of air exchanges keeps the air fresh and exhausts stale air that might carry allergens or pollutants.
Large Front and Side Porches
These porches not only function as multi-season living spaces, but also help regulate the temperature of the home.
Marmoelum Flooring
Before vinyl floors were made from petroleum, marmoleum was made by mixing cork, linseed oil , jute backing, and natural colorant. These marmoeum floor are made in much the same way.
Natural Granite Counter Tops
The flooring and countertops chosen for this home add a great deal of style, beauty and ease-of-maintenance over the typical “non-green” choice. A “green” floor or counter top choice usually means a material that comes from natural, recycled or renewable resources, or one that is not made with the kinds of synthetic materials that off-gas annoying or harmful compounds. Quite often this leads to simple, natural materials, such as the stunning natural granite you see here.
Pre-Finished Hardwood Floor
It’s not uncommon for green features to be better choices in terms that go well beyond the economics and environmental issues. Flooring and other hard surfaces are prime examples. The flooring and countertops chosen for this home add a great deal of style, beauty and ease-of-maintenance over the typical “non-green” choice. A “green” floor or counter top choice usually means a material that comes from recycled or renewable resources, or one that is not made with the kinds of synthetic materials that off-gas annoying or harmful compounds. Quite often this leads to simple, natural materials, such as stone or slate, or imaginative choices, such as the pre-finished hardwood you see here. The pre-finishing reduced exposure to potentially harmful vapors on the job site.
Programmable Thermostat
A programmable thermostat allows you to save energy and increase the comfort of your living space. Time your heating cycle for the hours you are up and about, leave the heat lower when you are away or asleep.
Recycled Fiber Carpet
Carpet made with recycled fibers is a good way to get an attractive, long lasting floor and do your part to keep waste out of the landfills. Many carpets can be recycled so it’s always good to ask when you purchase new carpet if your old one can be picked-up for recycling.
Recycled Glass Tiles
These tiles are made in Seattle from glass recycled from Seattle industries and consumers (scrap plate glass and bottles). Unlike many recycled glass tiles that are apprx. 85% recylcled and 15% new colored glass, these tiles are made by adding recycled colored glass bottles to clear recyled glass.
Recyled Copper Mirror
Recyled industrial copper was used to hand make this mirror in Mexico. The manufactturer has has been approved by the Fair Trade Federation
Recyled Glass Cabinet Pulls
These cabinet pulls are made in Seattle from glass recycled from Seattle industries and consumers (scrap plate glass and bottles).
Recyled Pickle Barrel Countertop
This wood countertop is made from old pickle barrels that have been discarded by Heinz. Your grandfather might have eaten a pickle from a barrel this counter is made from.
Solar Pre-Heating
Roof-mounted solar hot water collectors pre-heat the water, further reducing the cost of heating for both the hydronic heating system and the home’s hot water.
Super Low Flow Toilet or Dual Flush Toilets
This is a great way to reduce water consumption! Low flow toilets have been engineered to perform well using smaller amounts of water. A dual flush saves even more by giving you a choice when you flush for liquids or solids.
Tankless Hot Water Heater
Domestic hot water and hot water for heating is delivered by the same tankless system. On-demand tankless water heaters offer up to 25 to 30% energy savings over conventional natural gas water heaters.
THIS HOME HAS EARNED THE ENERGY STAR
Designed, built and performance tested to provide enhanced comfort, healthier indoor air, energy savings and a better future.
Trex decking
Trex decking is made from a unique combination of reclaimed wood and plastic, (made primarily with recycled plastic grocery bags, reclaimed pallet wrap and waste wood), offering you the best qualities of both materials. The plastic shields the wood from moisture and insect damage, so there's no rotting or splintering. The wood protects the plastic from UV damage and gives your deck a solid, natural feel. It looks great year after year.
Wood Flooring on the First Floor
As an alternative to finished concrete, the wood floor shown here is warm, beautiful and easy to maintain.
Zero V.O.C. Paint
V.O.C. stands for volatile organic compounds (which are pollutants). Zero mean nada, nil, zip, nothing. That combination is one that is good for the health of the painters and the folks who will live long and happy in this home.
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