Thank goodness for rain days as this Thursday that allowed me to get back up to Athens to check out the progress and help out for a few hours. Along the same lines, I thought I would include more about BOULD’s system & how it works. For more on this project you may wish to […]
Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century – Getting the Water where it’s needed
Living in today’s modern homes, life is great – we turn on the tap & the water just flows out. In most cases, we have no idea where it comes from, how it gets to our house leaving us with our only concern of how much is it to connect to the water main for […]
IBS 2012 – Day 3 the People, & Some Cool Tools
It just seemed like a really odd day where everyone was dragging just a bit and the show was a little quitter than usual. The last two days were almost non-stop, while today many people were actually checking their luggage in at a special TSA desk for later flights in the afternoon. I had never […]
IBS 2012 – Day 2 and is it?
Today started off in the Outdoor Pavilion with the award breakfast for the Building America program hosted by BASF. Sam Rashkin was the keynote speaker & in typical Rashkin style, even though he had a script, he managed to go off on a few side tangents. I think the best on was the shot he […]
International Builders Show 2012
Wow, people weren’t kidding when they said you needed at least a few days to walk the whole show. I only managed to walk about a third of inside aisles today and then there still is the outside pavilion. I did manage to catch a couple of the classes, and I must say they are […]
A Tale of Solar Panels, Carts & Horses
This week we have an interesting guest post from across the pond by a gentlemen named James Hawkins who likes to blog about solar panels and renewable energy. He works for Talk Solar Panels which is a UK firm that was started in 2008 and involves “providing quality solar panel information and a quote comparison […]
ENERGY STAR Updates (v. 3.5)
As many know the ENERGY STAR program has recently underwent a major upgrade from just ENERGY STAR (ES) to ES3. During that time over 4300 builders, 900 raters / verifiers & 330 HVAC contractors completed the necessary steps to learn & comply with the new guidelines. During this period many of us participating forwarded questions, […]
Construction Marketing Idea’s: Best Construction Blog Contest
For the third year in a row, we have been nominated to Construction Marketing’s Best Construction Blog Contest. This year there are a total of 30 blogs listed & the competition looks to be pretty tough. With that said, not only would we love for you to vote for us, we would like you to […]
Guest Post: Energy Audits – What’s in a Price?
I don’t know, I am sensing a strange pattern here – it appears every time I do a guest post on JB’s excellent blog something major has changed. In this case he has a nice new logo & completely revamped the site which now flies. With that said, I encourage you to check out his […]
New Home & Condensed Maintenance Checklist
Based on a few requests & comments, we are proud to provide you with two new checklists. The first one is for those moving into a new house. The second one is a shortened & condensed version of our regular Monthly Maintenance Checklists which we still encourage you to check out and come up with […]
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