Source: mtexpress.com
Age old innovation in building industry
Local builder Blake Eagle and his wife Angie began researching healthy and sustainable building materials about four years ago for use in a home they planned to build in Northridge in Hailey. They settled on a material with high thermal mass that does not require the usual amount of chemicals and vapor barriers used in conventional construction.
“It just makes sense to build our living environment using natural, breathable materials in a healthy sustainable manner as our budget allows,” said Blake Eagle.
It took the couple 18 months to receive permitting from the City of Hailey to proceed with construction of their two story wood-framed Northridge home. The delay was due to their decision to use a thick layer of hemp and a lyme- based, non-concrete binder on the exterior walls of the building.
Hemp is a low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) variety of the plant Cannabis sativa. According to Wikipedia, of the approximately 2000 cannabis plants varieties known, about 90% contain only low-grade THC and are most useful for their fiber, seeds and medicinal or psychoactive oils.
“People keep asking me if they can smoke my house,” joked Eagle.
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