John Webb talks a bit about the city of Coburg and their design standards. From more classic design elements to rather sophisticated, self-contained septic/sewer treatment systems being standard, this new home build needed to be top notch. Of course, John has always been about efficient home designs, so these features fit right in with how John prefers to design and build. These added costs make for a healthier community, which John and the homeowner appreciate.
“All the architecture is more historic looking and they like that whole feel in the city. Also, they are a little forward thinking. We treat everything on site. All the septic and all the sewer gets treated on site before it goes into the city sewer lines, so they don’t have to have to have any plants to do all the processing and stuff. It’s all done before it leaves our property and goes into the city sewer.
Which is really pretty cool. I think that that is going to be a way for people to get a lot more developing done. It’s more of a cost – it probably throws an extra 15 or $20,000 onto a project. But it the end the city doesn’t have to worry about all the problems of, you know, mistakes when they dump everything in the river when they it’s not treated all the way. Or, more mistakes like that. It just kind of refines it and naturally takes care of itself.
And then of course all our rainwater and stormwaters are all processed on site as well. So we have a big dry well that we had an engineer engineer for us. He calculated all the square footage on the roof and the concrete to run to the dry well, to stay on the property instead of running off into the storm sewer. Everything is really processed on site on this property.
Also, for a green carbon footprint we’ve got all wood – this house is completely wood. I don’t have man made siding on it or things that are going to have to have, what do I want to say, more maintenance to keep. When I’m building something like this I’m all about timelessness. Timelessness is as far back as I can remember, the things that are still in use, you know what they look like today. You know how they’ve weathered the years of use. So I tend to always fall back on that and wood is the most timeless siding I’ve ever run into.”
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