Home Building Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green
Construction update - March 30, 2006
March 31st, 2006 by Ryan JohnstonIt’s with both excitement and tears as we announce that work began again on the ramsayhome.com house project. We couldn’t be more happy to have been put into contact with our new contractors - this project sure needs the professionalism, experience and technical ability they bring to our home project. Sadly, the first thing that our new contractors will have to do is dismantle a good portion of the project that was not completed properly by our original contractor. This is sad news indeed and we will discuss this more in our on-going construction diary at City Hippy.
This is the shocking photo of the warmboard subfloor being removed from the living room when it was found that it was glued and nailed incorrect. The entire living room is in the wrong location and the warmboard pieces ended up having to be chopped out.
More photos in our home building pictures gallery were added today.
5,500 square-foot eco-friendly home
March 31st, 2006 by Ryan JohnstonNorm Schreifels is building a 5,500 square-foot eco-friendly home in Albuquerque, N.M. Read the full article of about his home at spokesmanreview.com.
Housing industry is turning green
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Norm Schreifels is building a 5,500-square-foot dream home with unimpeded views of the Sandia Mountains, an outdoor dining room that faces the city lights and a handful of plazas and portals that take advantage of New Mexico’s weather.
At first glance, the home would send any conservationist into a frenzy.
But Schreifels, who runs Sun Mountain Construction Inc., wants people to take a closer look.
“We put a big house in here just so people would get mad and ask questions,” he said.
The answers all point to green building, a trend that’s picking up speed across the United States as homeowners struggle with high utility bills and leaders begin to talk about shifting the country’s diet from oil to more renewable energy sources.
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