New Room Additions


The right home improvement products, techniques, and services:
Contractors, home improvement stores, and specialty shops in your area may not yet have a complete familiarity with the ‘green’ opportunities, products, system integration, and overall savings potential. So, you may get some resistance, since people in general are typically more comfortable recommending something that they are already familiar with rather than something new. To help break the inertia, use the information across this website like our Return on Investment Master ROI Table. Also feel free to post a question in our forum on the message board about a particular need for your home relative to your area. Our team has spent multiple years aggregating research from public and private sector performance reports and from manufacturers and homeowners across the country in order to provide you with the perspective you may need to see the initial payback and long term advantages. Environmental enthusiasts and leading institutions like the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Realtors, see the value and link into our resources to support their members.

The Green Home:
For your overall home improvement, you can save money, improve your family’s health, and save the planet. Find out for free how much it will cost to do different types of home improvement in your home from a qualified and member approved contractor in your area. Get a FREE Quote . Plus, regardless of the size and scope of your home improvement project, save money and keep your home clean with the top rated chemical free and concentrated Green Home Cleaning Products .

Category Checklist:
Make sure to consider the latest Home Improvement products and services. If you are doing the work yourself or planning on working with a home improvement contractor use this checklist below as a guide to review and ask questions about the preferred products, details, and installation techniques related to:

New Room Additions:
Sunroom Additions, Bed Room Additions, Mud Room Additions, Kitchen Additions, Combination Rooms and Additions, Family Room Additions, Garage Additions, Play Room Additions, Home Office Additions, Second Story Additions

Tips on New Room Additions:
With an addition you have the opportunity to start literally from the ground up to make decisions that can save money and the environment. Break the inertia of typical construction and go green. If you want to maximize the green potential of your addition, have your builder look into OVE and stack-framing. OVE is a new construction technique which uses less building material and makes your home more energy efficient. OVE stands for: Optimum Value Engineering. It is a collection of framing methods that uses lumber in a non-wasteful way—by placing framing members only where they are needed. This not only cuts down on material waste, but also, reduces the number of spots in the walls where drafts could enter the home. This increases the energy efficiency of your home, by reducing heating costs and providing better insulation.

Another green consideration which should be high on your list is to specifying FSC certified wood to ensure that the lumber comes from a responsibly managed forest. FSC is the Forest Stewardship Council, a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging and coordinating the development of forest management standards throughout the different biogeographic regions of the U.S. Responsibly managed forests focus on replanting at least one tree in the pace of each one that is cut down to regenerate the forest and never deplete it. Lumber yards and major home improvement stores are carrying certified lumber. Look for the ‘FSC’ stamp on the wood, and by asking for it in person or though your builder, you create the demand that will help break the inertia of poorly managed resources. Other, non-wood construction materials, such as concrete or vinyl, are manufactured from materials that are extracted from the earth, and cannot be regenerated or replaced. As a naturally earth-grown and replenishable product, lumber is fully biodegradable.

Home Improvement Basics:
When it comes to home improvement basics, look for interior home improvements like creating a clean, safe, and healthy home through sustainable ‘green’ furniture, home décor, zero VOC and Interior Paint, plus ENERGY STAR Appliances and Electronics. For energy and utility savings you can focus on insulation and air sealing, windows, doors, lighting and skylights, water saving plumbing opportunities, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. On the outside of your house, look for exterior home improvement opportunities through landscape design and gardening plus solar energy, wind and other power sources. If you are undertaking a major home renovation, an additions, or building a new home, then take the lead to ‘go green’ in as many ways as possible to save money and the environment.

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