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Green Home Makeover Services
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Eco-friendly building services and systems that reduce a home’s carbon footprint:
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- Custom Green Home Building
- Electric Solar Panels
- Bathroom & Kitchen Remodeling
- Low Flow Faucets & Toilets
- Water & Air Purification
- Water Retention
- Dual Pane Windows & Doors
- HVAC High Efficiency Systems
- Eco Friendly Insulation & Paint
- Home Energy and Air Audits
- Green Landscaping Designs
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ENERGY
A home’s energy sneaks out in ways a teenager has yet to dream up. Green Home Makeover buildings use at least 15% less energy than a standard new home by using some or all of these features:
- High Performance Windows
- Improved Installations
- Radiant Barriers & Insulated Attic Ducts
- Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
- Energy Star Qualified Appliances
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WATER
Water conservation is the most cost-effective and environmentally sound way to reduce our demand for water. Green Home Makeover buildings use at least 20,000 gallons less water per year than their “non-green” counterparts.
- Water-based Irrigation controllers
- Low flow toilets and faucets
- Water purifying systems
- Re circulating Hot Water Systems
- Energy Star rated appliances use 10-50% less energy and water than standard models.
- Reducing front yard turf
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WOOD
Lumber is among the largest building material component for single-family construction. It is estimated that each engineered wood floor joist system saves one tree and each engineered wood truss system saves two trees from being harvested. When used reasonably, wood is a renewable resource. Green Home Makeover buildings use:
- Engineered wood products
- Certified wood products from forests overseen by Sustainable Forestry System(SFI)
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INDOOR AIR QUALITY
A variety of construction practices and technologies required by the California Green Building guidelines improve the indoor air quality in new homes, schools and hospitals. Some of these features are:
- A correctly sized and tested Air Conditioner and Furnace
- Low VOC(Volatile Organic Compound) in paints, lacquers, floor underlayment and carpet
- MERV 6 filters …installed in duct systems
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CONSTRUCTION WASTE DIVISION
Residential construction typically generates 4 tons of recyclable/divertible waste products per 2000sf home. California Green Built buildings practices include:
- Reusing
- Recycling
- Reducing
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TESTING / ENERGY AUDITS PROVIDED
Third party Home Energy Rating System (HERS) rater, monitored by the California Energy Commission, have special California Green Built training. The stringent guidelines include:
- Air Flow Tests
- Blower Door Tests
- Duct Testing
- Refrigerant Tests
- Energy Audit
- Carbon Monoxide Testing
- Moisture/Mold Testing
The California Green Building Standards Code will be published as part of California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24). Essentially, the code contains a checklist of 16 items to which all home builders must comply.
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Green Home Makeover
4335 Van Nuys Boulevard, Suite 354
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
License # 925471
Mike@GreenHomeMakeoverLA.com
Call Today for a
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818.906.2313
How do I know when a
building product is really green?
'Green' makes an eye-catching label for all sorts of products. It’s a bandwagon every marketing company in the U.S. would like to climb on. Confronted with this advertising claim, what we should be asking is...OK, what makes it green?
Here are a few issues to consider:
Is it manufactured or harvested locally? Less energy is needed to get local products to the end user. Buying locally also helps local economies.
Is it healthy? Find out whether the product off-gasses volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde or other chemical irritants
Is it durable? Spending more money for a product that lasts much longer than the norm represents a net savings
Is it made from recycled materials, and can it be recycled? An increasing number of products contain at least some recycled material, which means fewer virgin raw materials were needed to manufacture them. Products that can be recycled at the end of their service life means less strain on landfills.
Will it save energy? Anything we can do to lower energy demands is positive. This is painfully obvious when it comes to fossil fuels, but don’t forget that a lot of electrical energy is derived from natural gas or coal.
Making the right decisions about green products isn’t always as easy as it looks. In addition to the questions listed above, you might consider a variety of other issues, such as how much embodied energy the product contains. That’s a measure of the amount of energy it took to manufacture and ship a product. There aren’t any absolute standards for measuring these things. Buyers simply have to weigh a variety of concerns and do they best they can.
Buying guides can be very helpful. One of them is Green Building Products: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials. It lists everything from heat pumps to roof shingles.
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