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Garage doors add a beautiful design element to your home’s exterior as well as provide a safe, secure and easy access to your garage. Today’s garage doors come in a variety of types and styles, and are available in different materials, depending on your needs and tastes.
An alternative building system to a conventional stick built home is called SIPs. SIPs is an acronym for Structurally Insulated Panels. SIPs are made up of rigid form core insulation, laminated between two (2) layers of wood sheathing called OSB (Oriented Strand Board).
Skylights let natural light stream into your home, bringing warmth and a feeling of spaciousness. When properly selected and used, they can reduce your need for electric lighting and minimize your heating and cooling costs.
Sunrooms are a wonderful addition to your home. They bring the beauty of nature and sunlight into your home while keeping out the cold, and the heat and bugs. The reasons vary for either adding a sunroom to your existing home, or to including it in the plans for the construction of your new dream home.
The place where you take your daily shower is probably not something your think about a lot. As long as there is enough hot water and the shower stall is clean, your daily needs are met. But, when you contemplate remodeling that bathroom or building your dream home and need to plan for its bathrooms, there are a lot of choices from which to select.
Wikipedia defines a plumbing fixture as “a device which is part of a system to deliver and drain away water, but which is also configured to enable a particular use.” This broad definition includes sinks, lavatories, toilets, showers, tubs, faucets and water heaters.
Sinks can be found in many different rooms in your home – the bathroom, the kitchen, maybe even a bar sink in your den or family room. Because bathroom and kitchen sinks are the most common, they will be our focus.
With the broad range of bathroom faucets available toady, you can easily find a unique and stylish model that is also practical for your family’s daily use. When looking for a faucet for your bathroom, you will need to consider how it will be mounted, what finish will complement your bathroom’s design and the number of handles that best meet your needs.
There are three (3) main types of foundations for homes and they are concrete slabs, crawl spaces and basements.
Water heating represents between 14% and 25% of the energy used in your home. Selecting the right hot water heater impacts not only the comfort of your family but your energy usage for years to come.
Heating and cooling your home represents almost one half of the money you will spend on energy every year. If your home is poorly insulated, those costs can be even greater. The amount of insulation as well as its effectiveness is “key” to your energy usage.
While selecting a toilet for your bathroom may seem a pretty straightforward task, there have been many changes in this market in recent years. Since the National Energy Policy Act of 1995 mandated standards for the manufacture of toilets, there have been many improvements in their operation and efficiency.
Skylights let natural light stream into your home, bringing warmth and a feeling of spaciousness. When properly selected and used, they can reduce your need for electric lighting and minimize your heating and cooling costs. There are also health benefits to this wonderful sunlight that shines on us.
When looking at one of these windows, doors and skylights, whether you are replacing old ones in your current home or buying ones for your new home, there are some factors you will want to take into consideration. These are called fenestration factors.
According to Wikipedia, fenestration is defined as, “Products that fill openings in a building envelope, such as windows, doors, skylights, curtain walls, etc., which are designed to permit the passage of air, light, vehicles, or people.”
Cooling your home involves air being circulated over a surface which has been maintained at a lower temperature. This surface may be in the space to be cooled or at some remote location with the air being ducted to and from the space. Usually water or a refrigerant is the cooling medium. There are three basic cooling technologies you may choose to use in your dream home. They are air conditioning, heat pumps and evaporative cooling.
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