I am marketing Ouray County's first ever Colorado Built Green Certified Home. All I can say is that this experience is ruining my satisfaction with my current residence, in a good way! After spending hours with the builder, Scott Bridger of Bridger Construction Services Inc., going over the homes specs, and how it receives the Built Green approval, I could just feel the money pouring out of my not so "tight" home. To add insult to injury I just completed the Vaned course Building Green: The High Performance Home. Nothing like hours and hours of why most homes aren't very efficient to make you look critically at yours. Just look at this insulation slide:
Don't get me wrong. I love my home. But, after you begin to understand what Building Green can do in terms of energy efficiency, durability, and comfort it may ruin you from buying anything else. Does it cost a little more to build? Sure. However, the level of comfort someone can have knowing that their home is not wasting any energy, was not wasteful in production, and will stand the test of time is incredible. It simply has to be the way all residential construction is headed...fast. The Ouray County Watch paper is doing a special on Building Green and the home in their January 29th issue.
Building Green has so many layers and is such a great concept that I think I'll leave it up to the experts to tell that story. A lot of folks think it's just more insulation or energy star rated appliances. Visit the website for detailed information. Let me warn you though...it may cause you to sell your home and find the closest "Green" builder tomorrow.
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