Junction Heritage House

This 150-year-old farmhouse was gutted and renovated from head to toe. Tangoraysolar worked with the architect and builder to incorporate greywater recycling, rainwater harvesting, solar thermal and greywater heat recovery.

This Greywater Recycling installation uses an IDUS Control Home System that uses the shower and laundry water to flush the 4 toilets in the home. Greywater recycling systems are much easier to install when building from new or during major renovations like this. It is possible to retrofit easily in many types of bungalows as well. These homeowners will save 1/3 of their water bill.

A large tree shades the south-facing roof of this home. Instead of trimming the tree to accommodate for more solar exposure, we opted to rough in for Solar Thermal so a future installation wont be intrusive or difficult to retrofit. The tree will likely be cut down by the city within 5 years, at which point hooking up to solar thermal will be an easy and affordable task.

Nearly one-third of the energy you consume in your home is used to heat water for everyday household tasks. 90% of that energy runs down the drain, mostly in your shower. Now you can recover and re-use much of that energy before it is lost, with a Power-Pipe® Drain Water Heat Recovery (DWHR) System. With a Power-Pipe installed on your home shower, you save energy, reduce your overall household water heating costs by up to 40% and protect the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

These work well with Greywater Recyclers.

The Solar Powered Rainwater Harvesting System uses an IDUS Controls Garden unit that runs off of a small 20-watt solar panel. A combination of salvaged wine casks and underground water reservoirs store the collected rainwater from the downspouts. This homeowner will use the collected rainwater for drip irrigated gardening and car washing./p>