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green building: Send Me Your High Efficiency Window Covering Ideas - 10/27/08 05:02 PM
My husband and spent a lot of money building a super insulated home with foot thick insulated concrete walls. Kudos for us, right? Well not so fast. Because our water front view is to the north we have large windows that need a highly insulated covering for winter evenings.
I have driven the man of the house to distraction with my wild ideas about fabric covered, hand painted styrofoam accodion shutters, Roman shades with those space blankets as a backing, and a number of other wild ideas.
After searching the internet, I am still looking for some great ideas for my … (3 comments)
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green building: High grades for Insulating Concrete Walls - 10/17/08 11:43 AM
Zero Dollars Spent on heat so far this season.
We were hoping that our new home, with its ICF walls would prove to lower our heating bills. So far the home is meeting and exceeding our highest expectations. Here we are getting close to November and we have still not turned on the heat.
On nights when the outside temperature has dropped into the 40s our home has maintained a minimum temperature of 69 degrees on the second floor, and 72 degrees on the first floor.
Why the higher temperature on the first floor? My guess is that this can … (0 comments)
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green building: More benefits of the ICF walls - 07/10/08 08:53 AM
We finally moved in to our new "built green" house on the Susquehanna River. It has been quite hot here for the last several days, so dispite our recent conversion to thinking green, we buttoned 'er up tight and let the AC run. (set at 76 degrees, so we're being a little bit good!)
This morning the installer came by to do our fireplace set-up and started to do the TEN HOUR burn-in. HELLO!!! in the middle of a heatwave in July??????? We have so much work to do in this quest of ours!!
I explained nicely that we would rather … (6 comments)
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green building: Central Pennsylvania EcoBrokers highlighted in Business Journal article - 06/17/08 02:05 PM
The Central Penn Business Journal has recognized the efforts of several Realtors who have earned the designation EcoBroker in order to bring environmnetally responsible practices to the business of helping their clients buy and sell homes.
The article by Eric Veronikis, with photography by Amy Spangler, can be viewed in its entirety at the following link:
http://www.centralpennbusiness.com/article.asp?aID=66641
Eileen Musser, a Realtor with Gateway Realty, Inc. in Lancaster, Pa., enrolled in the EcoBroker course last fall, in part to learn more about green building methods. She and her husband, Glenn have just completed construction of a home on the banks of the … (9 comments)
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green building: Green Building: What would you have changed? - 06/11/08 11:47 AM
Glenn and I have just built a fairly green home for ourselves (with the help of our favorite builder-who isn't particularly eco-savvy). We did some things right, and some not so right. The EcoBroker course helped tremendously, and I guess it was good to experiment on my own project rather than on a client's home.
Within the next year we will be remodeling or rebuilding the cottage that is on the lot adjacent to the new home. We are fortunate enough to be on the banks of the Susquehanna River, but the site is not perfect for solar applications. (view is … (6 comments)
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Eileen Musser EX Realtor
York,
PA
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