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100525 Top 10 List For Energy Wise Home Renovation

GreenEarthEquites Top 10 List for Energy Wise Home Renovation.  Homes can vary greatly in both challenges and potential.  Learn techniches that will help create a strategy for success and assist in implement your plans effectively when addressing the Four Areas of Home Performance which are: (1) Energy Envelope  (2) Comfort Systems  (3) Safety and Air Quality  (4) Water Conservation. [issuu viewmode=presentation layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fdark%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=100525231055-addc7f58cf1c4cf7b36de60788fab2db docname=100525_top_10 username=djr5650 loadinginfotext=100526%20Top%2010%20List%20for%20Energy%20Wise%20Home%20Renovations showhtmllink=true tag=house%20flipping width=500 height=375 unit=px]Continue Reading!

“Top 10” Home Performance Renovations? What If You Had To Choose?

That was exactly the question that one of the readers from Sacramento asked me last week.  I thought it was a good question and worthy of writing an article about.   But first the disclaimer and a few caveats.    Us humans love lists,  especially Top 10 lists.   They can be an aid to thinking, especially for the one who has to think them up ... but they can also limit the thinking process if you just follow the 10 point recipe, without thinking why each of the Top 10 made the cut, and whether those same criteria are...Continue Reading!

100518 Picking Your Team

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100511 Lessons From New Construction

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Home Performance and Pretty? Can I Have Both? Quickly?

Have you ever "day dreamed" or fantasized, "What if life circumstances changed & you re-located across the country and got to choose a new place to live?" I know that if you're reading this blog, you're at least somewhat of a Home Performance Geek like me. And I know that only a few of us in this industry actually live in our "Home Performance Dream Home"…. So a little day dreaming and "What If?" thinking is in order for most of us. Pretty, You Bet! Home Performance? Not So Much. A couple months ago this Home Performance Day Dream began to...Continue Reading!

A New Brand Or Just An Expanded Menu?

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Green? Greenwashed? Or Just Miss A Few Details?

A Southern California "Green Renovation Home" just got a lot of press and a Congressional Award.... and then the "rest of the story" came out.   The home was called  Net Zero but actually turned out to be an Energy Hog.    What Happened?   Here's the article (From a British source.... seems to be arm's length observation) This is exactly the type of press that we dont need in our emerging industry.  What can we do to prevent it?   See my previous post HERE, agreeing with Henry Gifford that checklist based renovations can miss a few seemingly small pieces...Continue Reading!

100427 ACI 2010 Wrap Up

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Deep Energy Renovation: How Deep Can You Go?

How deep can you go in Deep Energy Renovation? Can you cut the utility bill 50%? 75%? 90%? Can you go all the way to Zero? Where the energy bill is Zero? Can you go even further, and become an energy producer? Of course with enough renewables such as photovoltaic solar or wind power, we can go all the way to Zero and even become a net energy producer. Of course it's possible, especially if you have an unlimited budget. Maybe a research grant or...Continue Reading!

100420 Going Back to Kindergarten

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