Green Homes News

If Congress normalizes ADU loans, what changes?

I just found green building advisor and have already planned my project and am hearing different stories from contractors. I just thought I'd check the information from contractors.Overview : 1970s…

A couple years ago, I considered but decided against full gutter guards. My gutters are cleaned twice a year, but I still get a lot of seed pods down the…

If the ductwork is sound, is it an easy switch?

I’m going to be having my roof replaced soon and have a question concerning adding foam board such as EPS on top of the roof deck and under the TPO…

Adding a new 21" H fieldstone wall at the bottom of our front yard incline that's about 3ft high. New concrete footing is 30" deep. Wall is about 30 ft…

I am planning  to “fix up” the situation over my 70's kit homes exterior walls.I'm in Colorado climate zone 6 around 7,000'ft. The roof is a 4/12 pitch.I  want my…

We’re in the process of air sealing the inside of a new construction home. For wider cracks, we’ll be using canned closed-cell spray foam (Great Stuff Gaps and Cracks or…

We’re using a Coravent rain screen system, and our builder needs to fur out the windows about ¼ inch to meet the siding. He suggested using rigid foam for the…

What we learned from updating a 16-year-old deep-energy retrofit

Hello,we are trying to figure out a proper way of  creating rain screen around flangeless upvc windows that are set flush with OSB. Windows are already in, and the OSB…

Largely thanks to this site I have gotten the courage or foolishness to proceed with thin stone veneer wainscot (100 sq ft) when I do siding. Mid Missouri, hot humid…

Is there a rough cutoff (blower door score) for when a house is too tight to get combustion air from inside the house for a gas water heater? I've read…