Air Sealing Saves Money
I’ve written quite a few articles over the years about the importance of properly air sealing a home to save energy and money. Even the best quality insulation won’t work very well if your home has air leaks that allow outside air into your home. I found a very useful site that [...]

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Is your refrigerator old? Besides not looking very good, It’s probably wasting energy. According to EnergyStar.Gov, a typical 24 cubic foot top-freezer refrigerator from the mid-1980s wastes more than $765 in electricity over 5 years! (@ 11 cents per KWh, a pretty reasonable rate). The average price of a nicely equipped 24 cubic foot refrigerator [...]

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Replacement Windows
I recently helped install some replacement windows in my dad’s house. Now I know some will think that adding vinyl replacement windows to a house isn’t exactly green. However, I beg to differ. The reality is any construction that reduces our dependency on petroleum fuels is green in my opinion.
Windows are one of the [...]

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Stimulus Package – Federal Tax Credits
The recent Stimulus Package has created some significant Federal Tax Credits for home owners looking to make energy efficient home improvements. I thought I’d take the time to summarize some of those Federal Tax Credits that apply to “Green” home improvements. You can find a detailed list of the new [...]

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Blower Door Test
This week we are finally finishing construction on an Energy Star home for a customer so it was time to perform a blower door test. The blower door test is used as an analytical measure of a houses air tightness. The Energy Star Certification program uses the results from a blower door test [...]

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Today contractor’s started installing spray-in-place Nu-Wool cellulose wall insulation in the Energy Star home we’re building at work. Dense packed cellulose wall insulation is one of the best ways to insulate your walls. If you’re interested in learning more about this great insulation product then I suggest you check out the post I wrote today [...]

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This week one of my crews has been installing the new Harvey Tribute windows in the new Energy Star home we’re building for a customer. This new line of windows from Harvey is a really great way to build green.
The Tribute window can be ordered with triple pane glass filled with krypton gas to achieve [...]

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Green construction comes with many different approaches but one of the fundamental issues is building with energy conservation as the cornerstone. So you spend lots of money building an energy efficient house; but do you really know if it’s energy efficient? The best way to test your home for energy efficiency is to perform a [...]

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