Owner(s): Scott Pegg and Rebecca Ball
Region: Greater Toronto Area
Municipality: King Township
Email: spegg@sympatico.ca

Number of bedrooms: 1
Number of bathrooms: 1
Building footprint, square feet: 650 (small but wisely designed space!)
Number of stories: one with lowered solarium to follow contour of hill
Occupancy date: 2005
Cost per square foot and what that includes: $60 (sweat equity not included)

Builder arrangement: Owner
Designer's name: Owner
Structural engineer's name: Chris Dick
Length of time to build (start to occupancy): three years (part time, weekends only) Occupancy 2005
Volunteer participation: One day bale raising. One day for scratch coat plaster work.

Other roof system info: Steel

Other insulation materials used: blown cellulose attic insulation to R75

Other bale wall style info: wheat straw, not pinned, no mesh (except around windows / doors)

Other plasters used: clay based plaster outside and in with exterior lime wash and interior alis finish (home made paint)
Mechanical systems info: Evacuated tube solar hot water and radiant in floor, natural cooling using skylight vents, septic
Electrical systems info: 100 A grid
Other green features: lowered solarium, adobe floor, cob furniture in great room, home made window frames, recycled sashes