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The Durable Home
Main / The Durable Home Author: Tad Duby   Created: 1/26/2007 1:58 PM
Build Smarter.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Technology advancements have made huge studies in energy efficiency. one of those innovations is the Heat pump water heater. A company out of Australia was one of the first I know to introduce these innovative water heaters. Now there is a add on feature....
Posted by Tad Duby at 8:41 PM Comments (0)
Thursday, July 03, 2008
at the post office today I picked up a paper from United water, nice to see water conservation made easy...
Posted by Tad Duby at 11:56 AM Comments (0)
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
recently I had a client call me that was having trouble with his painter finding a solution for low VOC lacquer to apply to natural wood in a home. the painter was quoting high costs and having to buy huge volumes of product because of availability-here the rest for the story.....
Posted by Tad Duby at 9:52 AM Comments (1)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
We get lots of comments on whether or not to add ventilation in attics in the summer to reduce the attic temperatures, makes sense right?
Posted by Tad Duby at 6:42 AM Comments (2)
Thursday, June 05, 2008
So the federal tax credit for high performance homes ( 50% better than the 2004 IECC-this is higher performance than just energy star ) to the builder will expire on January 1 2009.
Posted by Tad Duby at 7:31 AM Comments (0)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
this had to be the best event I have participated in along time. The place was packed. don't have official numbers yet but you can believe it will be twice as big next year. Planning has already started....
Posted by Tad Duby at 9:17 PM Comments (6)
Friday, May 02, 2008
sorry don't know what happened when I posted. so a new company Dynamic Vent www.dynamicvent.com has invented a new version of crawl space ventilation fans that might solve allot of issues....
Posted by Tad Duby at 5:31 PM Comments (1)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
April 10 2008 the U.S. senate passed the housing stimulus bill. the provisions adopted by the senate includes:
Posted by Tad Duby at 10:53 AM Comments (0)
Monday, April 21, 2008
I wanted to say Green landscaping, but I think Green is being used for everyones buzz word and there is not allot of definition of what it actually means. this landscape company focuses on healthy, non toxic landscape maintence....
Posted by Tad Duby at 8:38 PM Comments (2)
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Structural and insulated sheathing? OH-BOY!
Posted by Tad Duby at 3:46 PM Comments (0)
 
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