The Eco-Panels Blog
Crawl Spaces
crawlspaces.org, a very informative website from the building scientists at Advanced Energy, is a great resource! From CrawlSpaces.org: Many homes built on crawl space foundations in the Southeastern United States suffer from poor moisture management. Some of the...
Insulation
If you wish to insulate traditionally this page tries to discuss a couple of types of standard insulation. It can be a very complex and time consuming process - if done correctly. The links to the right are all very important if you wish to do an effective job of...
How do you define Green?
The term "green" gets tossed around so much these days you'd think the Irish had taken over. I can hardly watch a nice round of Thursday night NBC without GE touting its green credentials. Some people have their own definitions for green while more than a few don't...
Landscape
The nature of your landscape (no pun intended!) can greatly affect your monthly utility bills. Plant and tree locations can greatly affect your heating and cooling load year-round. A house properly oriented among evergreen and deciduous trees - and their position...
Walls
The vast majority of homes built in America today are "stick-built" using either 2x4 or 2x6 dimensional lumber. This wooden "skeleton" of a home actually takes up on average at least 25% of the external building envelope in surface area according to Oak Ridge National...