NES Solar Salt Box Tour
We can also take any reasonable plan of your choice and turn it into a Solar Energy Efficient Home and save you thousands of dollars.
Get it built as shown with the Sun room, the Farmers porch, the window box, quality materials & craftsmenship, and receive this SKYSTREAM 3.7m WIND ELECTRIC TURBINE (grid tie) system Free. Includes Site work and Excavation. For only $185,000.00 Does not include well or finish landscaping.
View from the top of the driveway as seen from the SW.
Front door on a winter's day.
Inside the front door looking at the kitchen. Sunroom is through french doors on right.
The bottom of the saltbox roof can be seen in the LR above.
The pop-out bed alcove/TV-lounge/Guest sleeper can be seen here. The thermal storage column is on the right (a solid concrete block tower to the bottom of the upper floor roof). This picks up solar warmed air at the ceiling and sends it down to the insulated crawlspace plenum and then back to the interior of the house through floor registers. More information on the system can be found in the PDF file.
View out the Living Room bay window from the stair landing. The thermal storage column is on the left.
The attached solor sunroom. This provides heat to the house during spring and fall and tempers the house from the outside during the winter (it is not heated). This room is glazed using standard sizes of tempered glass panels from sliding glass patio doors. There are plans available for the glazing system HERE.
Under the skylight just behind the fan are solar hot water heaters. The house uses a simple passive solar preheater for water on its way to the hot water tank. Click HERE for a diagram (in PDF format).
This bed alcove in the master bedroom also uses a tempered glass panel as a skylight. You can see it popping out of the 2nd floor roof in the photo below. It is sized for a queen bed but we are using it for a reading nook now.
Winter time scene.
Model Solar Display Price reflects home only, Salt box [center portion]
Add on the Sun room & the Farmers porch and the window box and receive this SKYSTREAM 3.7m WIND ELECTRIC TURBINE (grid tie) system Free. Take a tour of this Saltbox Solar Home click here
Add on the window box, the Farmers porch, the Sunroom or the Garage.
Spec Model Home to be built in Brownfield Maine.
Saltbox house plans are typically two-stories, idolized by their steeply pitched roof, featuring a simple yet traditional design with a modern inspired flare throughout the interior spaces. The exterior facade is accented with small diamond-pane casement windows, often paired illuminating the interior.
