The HTRC – Page 74 – The Homeowners & Trades Resource Center

139 Days Later: RRP Penalty Guideline’s Established

About a month ago, I was asked to write a 300-word opinion piece on the RRP & where it stood 100 days later. In that piece, I made this comment about enforcement. “Enforcement: Well after being caught in a few lies, the EPA has effectively had its hands tied on the enforcement part. Supposedly, October […]

Blogoff: My Ultimate Getaway

Ahhh, Labor Day – the official end to most everyone’s summer vacations and travel & the start of preparing for the upcoming holidays. Wow, wait, where did all the time go? In that vein, this Tuesday’s Blog Off happens to be “Where’s your slice of heaven?” . Everybody it seems, has a place in mind […]

Building Green Homes: Step 7 – Drying In the Walls / Air Sealing

Sorry, for the short break we took on this series entitled Looking Back & Looking Forward. As a reminder we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, […]

Sustainability, Green Building & You?

While attending the Green Building Focus Conference, one of the most interesting items I noticed was how almost all the Architects started their seminars off with their definitions of certain items. While some may have considered this as strange, (especially when you consider who their audience was) in essence it is almost a necessity. In […]

Recap of the 2010 Green Building Focus Conference

Coming out of my last set of classes, I had had it. I was looking forward to simply just going to the Remodeling & Deck Expo in Baltimore and possibly catching the Green Building Focus Expo in Birmingham. At that time, all I could envision was simply touring the Expo floors, catching up with some […]

Does college or anything really prepare you for the real world?

If it is Tuesday, it must be time for another Blog Off with the links to others participating at the end of this article. This week’s topic is on “does college prepare you for the real world”? In a way, it is a timely topic, which affects not only the students, but also their parents […]

There’s no such thing as a free lunch – Roofing

Knock, knock – Hello? Hi, I’m Mike & we were just looking at your neighbors’ roof and thought we spotted some damage to yours, would you mind if we performed a free roof inspection? It will only take a few minutes, you see we do lots of insurance repair jobs and most of the time […]

Architects – Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR®

Recently we have been spending some time working on getting our Alabama Green Building Services & Solutions pages up on our main web site. While we normally don’t cross post, we thought some of the information on a few of our newer pages might be helpful. So with no further ado – our post for […]

Building Green Homes: Step 6 – Drying In the Roof

In this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, we got all the exterior framing completed & sheathed. In […]

Are you ready for this… National Residential Retrofit Guideline?

On Monday, I received an invitation to attend a webinar put on by DOE / NREL to attend a webinar entitled “National Residential Retrofit Guidelines: Update & Opportunities to Engage.” Hmmm, I had never heard of that and it sounded somewhat interesting. It also appeared at first glance to run after another webinar I was […]