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Energy Saving homes gain
in popularity
One of the main reasons people find home
ownership to be desirable is the security they find in owning a home. It
is a large investment. It is the place families are raised and is the go to
place for holidays and events. Today's high cost of energy erodes that
security level each time the heating and light bills arrive in the mail.
Building a new, energy efficient home is your best protection against
rising energy costs. |
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| DESIGN TIP: Air quality is
very important in homes today. Energy efficient homes are much
tighter than their older counterparts. When designing your new home consider
adding central vac to your wish list. Central vac systems while
keeping your home clean also keep the indoor air clean by sending
all of the dust to a storage canister outside of the living areas.
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| Heating and cooling costs make up almost
half of today's home energy consumption. Creating a comfortable living
environment within your home is becoming more and more of a challenge
today. The heating and cooling costs are best controlled with high
performance insulation and sealing of all air leaks in a home. This
proves to be either impossible or more expensive than the gain on many
existing homes which leaves people with the next logical solution. That
solution is building a new home with saving energy as part of the homes
structure. System built homes do this better than any other form of
building a new home. So when an energy saving home is your preferred
choice be sure to take a look at the high performance modular homes
available today. |
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Outside air leaking into homes is the
major cause of heat and cooling costs. On site built homes it is rare to
cut open a wall section and find the holes drilled for wires and
plumbing to be caulked to prevent this unwanted change of air. In the
system built home industry one of the main jobs after framing is to make
sure all of these openings are sealed. Air changes in a home are good
and provide a healthy, comfortable living condition but should not be
provided by unknown sources that cannot be controlled. |
| One of the first places to start in building an
energy efficient home is in the design stage. Most people focus on
the floor plan for their new home which is important but do not overlook
the entire house design and site layout which can save you a lot of
money with some attention to detail. The size of the
home, placement on the lot and use of windows and doors all play a part
in a great green energy home project being successful. Special attention
should be placed on the placement of the home on the building lot. Solar
gain and wind protection are working on your home every day, 24 hours a
day. These two major natural forces can be used to your advantage by
proper planning early in the building process. |
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| Windows and doors play a major part in a
new homes style, comfort, and curb appeal. They also play a big roll in
a new homes energy footprint. Windows are an expensive part of any
building project. Low quality windows will cost the same as premium
windows once the time line of ownership is extended using the cost of
energy as a factor. When building a new home if the budget needs to be
trimmed often using a less expensive window becomes the building
specification. This is a mistake. You see ads for replacement windows
all the time. Replacement windows is a giant industry because people
opted to go with an inferior window and paid the price for that decision
and now need to suffer the costs of correcting that decision. Always go
for a high quality window when building your new home. High performance
glass, tilt in washing features and lifetime window hardware are just
some of the features you will get with a better window verses a budget
window. |
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| Window and doors in your home design or
plan should be sized and placed for greatest energy savings. The forces
of nature are working everyday to equalize the temperature and humidity
difference between your family room and your back yard. This goes on
every minute of the day and night year after year. Your job is to make
this tug of war favor your side as much as possible. An on site energy
analysis taking into account the views you want to maintain and the
gains you want to realize from both natural light and solar gain will
result in properly placing the windows in your home for not only
enjoyable living but energy savings as well. |
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| People seek out the EnergyStar Logo when
shopping for everything from dishwashers to computers. Did you know that
you can also build a new home with the nationally recognized Energy Star
certification? It is the smart thing to do and provide an exceptional
value in addition to the quality and comfort you will enjoy in your new
home. |
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A new home built to the
exacting standards of the national Energy Star program results in a home
built by specialists that are driven to provide the best home value for
their customers. This built in value translates to a much higher resale
value insuring your homes investment year after year. |
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Green energy, LEED Certification and
Energy Star Homes are not limited to a style or series. Every home from
this luxury modular mansion on the waterfront to a cozy vacation home in
the mountains can utilize and benefit from energy saving design,
features, and system built construction methods. Every factory built
home is designed and built to some very exacting specification. That is
the nature of building any product in a controlled setting. Today's best
built high performance, eco friendly homes, are being built using
factory systems, technology and testing. Energy saving homes are a smart
choice when building a new home in today's high energy cost markets. |
A new trend in the press for home building is "Green". Green building is
simple making sure that home built make the best use of resources and materials
to have the smallest impact on the environment. These impacts can affect
landfill sites, petro-fuels used, natural and man made materials and a host of
other things. That is on the manufacturing or building side. On the end use
side, water conservation comes into play as well as appliance usage, home
upkeep and a host of other things.
To learn more visit:
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One of the best energy saving features
of any new home is found in the initial design of the home. The position
of the home on the lot is especially important as once done it cannot be
changed. In the case of this luxury home the front of the house faced
south. Maximizing the solar and light gain was accomplished using a
crystal front door.
Windows also come into play. The window
budget should include larger windows where they will add light and
available solar gain to the home.
Although these items put a strain on
the budget it is important to keep in mind they are a one time expense
that pay back dividends every day that you own your home. Properly done
these features add curb appeal to your home as well increasing it's
market value. |
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The best way to start a new home
project is with a list of every thing you want in the house along with a
vision of what you want the house to provide for you and your family.
This thinking should not be limited to the needs of today but rather
project these needs out into the future. Are you thinking of a home
based business where a area for a home office will be desirable? Do you
have future plans for a relative coming to live with you? Both of these
situations are easy to incorporate into your home design early on but
much more difficult and in some cases costly to modify later.
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In the case of planning for a future
in-law apartment it may just be a matter of doing a full bath in place
of a half bath and framing for a future door from an adjoining bedroom,
home office or study. With the bath fully functional and the door
already framed adding a door becomes an easy Saturday morning project.
This type of thinking is similar to Radon vent pipes. We add them to
every house no matter what. As the standards for Radon and the testing
procedures become more confining it is far better to add these pipes at
the framing stage and simply cap them off until or if needed. |
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