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:
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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:
Painting Tips and Tools:
Exterior and Airless Paint Sprayers, Exterior Paint Brushes and Rollers, Interior Paint Brushes and Rollers, Paint Brushes, Paint Clean Up and Removal, Paint Quality and Safety, and Painting Supplies.
Tips for Painting:
Clean your brushes. We have become something of a ‘single’ use society. Imagine how many paint brushes must get thrown away every weekend in America because someone just figured that it was cheap enough that the next time they need one they’ll buy another. That brush has probably traveled half way around the world from where it was made in China. Sometimes if you go for a better quality brush you get the payoff in a better painting experience, quality outcome, and you may be more likely to clean it rather than just buying the discount bundle. Go for Zero VOC Paint. By reducing the Volatile Organic Compounds you reduce the overall chemicals that are out-gassed in to our environment and around your home. Houses built before 1978 have lead paint. There is no question if there is lead paint or not. They have it. Lead paint is proven to cause brain damage in children so, consult a professional painter, and as a rule of thumb do not scrape or sand lead paint, because then you release the lead into the air. Typically, you can paint over it, which seals the lead in the paint.
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.
