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Are you Remodeling or Adding-On to Your Home? If so our Home Performance with Energy Star evaluation/inspection is for you! The Idaho Office Of Energy Resources offers a five-year loan at a low 4% interest for the Home Performance With Energy Star program. Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® Inspection - Guarantees the Five (5) required elements to [...]

http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/energy-efficiency/how-to-make-your-home-energy-efficient.htm by Zolton Cohen Inside this Article Sealing the Exterior Sealing the Interior Weatherstripping Doors Sealing Windows Sidewall and Garage Insulation Eliminating Ice Dams Attic Sealing and Insulation Upgrading Attic Insulation Cleaning and Maintenance Water Conservation Builders often refer to the exterior of a home as the “envelope” or the “shell.” Sealing the envelope or [...]

Home Inspections and why they are important… Let me introduce my self, my name is Brook Beierle and I am a certified Building Performance Specialist at EarthsaversO2. I have several thoughts on why people should have inspections done on new and existing homes. You see as a third party inspection company, EarthsaversO2 does not sale [...]

EPA Announces Energy Star Homes Reach Nearly 17 Percent Market Share for 2008 Release date: 07/02/2009 Contact Information: Enesta Jones, jones.enesta@epa.gov, 202-564-7873, 202-564-4355 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that nearly 17 percent of all single-family homes built nationally in 2008 earned EPA’s Energy Star label, up from 12 percent in 2007. [...]

ATTENTION RESIDENTIAL HOME BUILDER’S!  BUILD ENERGY STAR QUALIFIED HOMES TODAY! Being an ENERGY STAR Builder will: Increase sales and profits by offering homes that are valued more highly by homebuyers Improve customer satisfaction and reduce callbacks by providing a home that has been performance tested. Receive Incentives from power company’s /Cooperative marketing funds Receive Marketing [...]

Bellow are good reasons why to have a home inspection done. Common Home Problems and Solutions Courtesy of www.energystar.gov Is your home cold, drafty, or uncomfortable? Do you have high energy bills? Ice dams? Peeling paint? Excessive dust? Addressing these types of home problems can make your home more comfortable, and at the same time [...]

 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:                                  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  (202) 586-4940                                                           Monday, October 19, 2009  Vice President Biden Unveils Report Focused on Expanding Green Jobs And Energy Savings For Middle Class Families   - Vice President Biden today unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to [...]

Insight Vocabulary By Joseph Lstiburek Building Science Insight 024: last updated 2009/10/10 If we don’t call things by their right names we don’t really understand how things work.1 If we don’t understand how things work how can we prevent problems from happening? Or how can we fix problems when they do occur? And how can [...]

Legislation Introduced in Senate to Extend Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives and Create Incentives to Having Home Energy Ratings and Certification to Conduct Home Energy Ratings -The $2,000 tax credit for energy efficient homes will expire on January 1, 2010 unless extended by Congress . Bi-partisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to extend [...]