When it comes to Custom Home Building, we have everything under one roof! Our range of work can begin with the first drafting and continue to a completed home, or we can remodel or add on to your existing home giving it a fresh, updated look.
Here are top Three reasons why you should consider building aCustom Home:
#1 Cost
- Building your own home allows you to budget and manage cost of your home, when we give you estimates they are extremely detailed and breaks everything down on the Cost Break Down Sheet. This will aloow you to manage the cost more effeicently, before we began building your dream home.
#2 Customization
-When you build your own home you can have anything you want, indoor pool, tennis/basketball court, bigger kitchen and so on. All you have to do is simply add it on to the floor plan. Since we do the drafting in-house, you virtually have unlimited options to making changes to your floor plans. Some of the other benefits include; being able to customize room sizes, pick the materials, and basically build it to your vision, dream, and lifestyle.
#3 Built to your needs
-Buying a pre-built home may mean that the kitchen cabinets are too tall or the counters are too low. When you build your own house you are able to design areas for your own needs. For example, if your family has more than 3 cars, designing a house with an extra carport or an extended garage.
6 Tips for Specing and Installing an Energy-Saving Cool Roof according to Ebuild and Hanley Wood.
1. Heating bills. A reflective roof can help keep a house cooler when the hot sun beats on it, but it will not lower a home's heating bill, and may even slightly raise it. It makes sense to install a cool roof, which reflects heat but does not absorb it, only where the summers are extremely hot or humid. Most residential cool roofs are in southern and southwestern states, although homes where the summer air is especially humid-in cities like New York, Washington, or Indianapolis, for instance-also are candidates. Still, the Cool Roof Rating Council says cool roof owners may pay slightly more to heat their homes, although the summer savings outpace the increased heating bill.
2. Performance ratings. The Cool Roof Rating Council uses two measures to rate the performance of cool roofs. The first, solar reflectance, refers to how much of the sun's energy is reflected by the roof. The other, thermal emittance, measures how well the product releases any heat that it does absorb. Both use a scale from 0 to 1, with those measuring closer to 1 performing best.
3. Energy Star savings. The council estimates that a cool roof can save a homeowner 7% to 15% in cooling costs. Energy Star recognizes cool roof products that reduce peak cooling demand by 10% to 15%. To obtain the Energy Star label, steep-slope products must have an initial solar reflectance of at least 0.25. Three years after installation, the roofing product must achieve a solar reflectance of 0.15 under normal conditions. Energy Star does not require third-party certification of performance. The council, which measures performance but does not impose minimum levels, verifies that the products perform at the levels stated by the manufacturer.
4. Long-lasting results. Some studies claim that cool roofs last longer than traditional products because they do not absorb heat. Tucson roofer Daniel Roberts says that's true. "Darker shingles naturally will cook at a hotter temperature and tend not to hold up as well as the lighter color," says the founder and owner of Castle Roofing. "A good rule of thumb in Arizona: The lighter the shingle the better, not just for reflection and energy savings, but for the shingle's life itself."
In fact, notes Roberts, he was installing light-colored shingles on Tucson rooftops long before "cool roofing" became an energy-efficiency buzzword. "It's nothing new."
5. Insulation issues. Thick insulation and radiant barriers can cancel out the need for a cool roof. Roberts notes that placing a cool roof over an attic with 10 or 12 inches of insulation will result in only "negligible" additional energy savings. Easley agrees: "Even if you reflect 90% of the heat, that doesn't mean you'll reduce your energy bills by that much," he says, "because the codes already require that you have insulation in the attic." For homes with air conditioning ducts in the attic, though, cool roofing makes sense, he notes, especially if the ducts leak.
6. Higher prices. Some pros find cool roofing products garner more interest than sales because of their higher price tag. In the Northeast, for example, Tamko's Lamarite slate composite cool roof shingles cost $80 more per 100 square feet installed than the non-reflective Lamarite products, estimates Tim Lutrell, a Tamko vice president.
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