Ways To Incorporate Passive Solar Design Into Your New Home
With energy costs rising through the roof, it makes good financial sense to take a look at reducing energy costs by sitting down with your Omaha home builder and discussing how to put passive solar design elements into your new home. Here are some ways you and your Omaha home builder can make your home more passively energy-efficient.
- Remember that masonry materials like tile, stone or brick floors will absorb heat from the sun during the day and slowly release it as the night creeps by. Thermal mass will store excess heat gain, prevent your interior spaces from overheating and help reduce cooling costs by moderating heat delivery to your home.
- While it may be impossible if you’re building a home in a subdivision with pre-determined lots, try to orient your home on an east/west axis with south facing glazing. This allows sun to enter the building from around 9 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon during the season heating costs are highest.
- Look at ways to shade windows that are exposed to the sun. Shade windows with overhangs, porches and landscaping elements such as vines, trees and bushes. Features that provide shade can help cool your new Omaha home naturally and help reduce unwanted solar heat gain.
- When designing your home, take window placement into consideration. Also, choose windows with higher R-values and low-emissivity coatings. During the heating season, a well-designed direct gain system can capture and use 60 to 75 percent of the heat that strikes the windows.
- Windows that open and provide airflow throughout the home can not only help maximize ventilation and reduce space-cooling demands, but also help with improving the quality of the air in your new Omaha home. If a room is designed with only windows along one wall, it is better to have two widely spaced windows instead of just one large window.
With a little care before your builder breaks ground, you can dramatically affect what your energy costs will be after you move in - and that can add up to a lot of savings in the long run.
Sherwood Homes and Lane Building Corporation
From the “about us” page on the Sherwood Homes website:
Sherwood Homes has been a reputable and solid presence in Omaha’s home building industry for over 40 years! Glen Palmer founded the company in the 1960’s, and Jerry Standerford became associated with Sherwood Homes in 1973 as a trim contractor. Jerry later moved into a construction management position in 1985 at Sherwood Homes, and in 1989, Glen and Jerry partnered together to form Lane Building Corporation.
Lane Building Corp is not only a home building company, but also a land developer. This means we are able to purchase tracts of land in many areas through out the metro area. Home buyers will be delighted to learn that homesites in these neighborhoods are less expensive because fees paid to third-party developers for the lots are eliminated, and the savings is passed directly on to the buyers! With Sherwood Homes, the selection of homesites is limited only by availability of lots in the neighborhood you want to build in.
With a natural partnership and shared vision for quality home building, Lane Building Corp and Sherwood Homes Inc. continue to build their reputation for customer satisfaction and quality custom homes at competitive prices. The team at Lane&Sherwood understands that your home is an extension of your unique lifestyle. They take great pride in the details of your home’s design and construction. You can trust that your home is in good hands and know that it will be built carefully, efficiently and to the precise specifications of your vision. Why settle for less?
Today Lane Building Corp and Sherwood Homes offers the expertise of not only Glen Palmer and Jerry Standerford, but also home builders Wayne Wattier and Brian Crossan, along with Selections Coordinator Nancy Turner, our exclusive listing agents, and the entire Lane/Sherwood team.
Strandberg Homes
From the “about us” page on the website of Strandberg Homes:
Strandberg Homes was created by Jerry Strandberg and originated in a small town in Iowa known as Storm Lake. In 1977 Strandberg Construction was created and a new era of home building was developed. Since this time, Strandberg Homes has developed in areas throughout Iowa and Nebraska and has also been seen in states such as Arkansas and California.
Strandberg Homes specializes in all types of construction. These types are, but are not limited to: new homes, remodeling, siding, roofing, window replacement, door replacement, commercial framing and commercial trimming.
For the last 30 years Strandberg Homes has developed a relationship with many individuals who continue to be satisfied with their work ethics and integrity.
As our company motto states, we put the pieces together; just like a puzzle we put ideas together to make the perfect dream home. With that said, we hope to hear from you soon and look forward to discussing your dream home with you.
Falcone Homes
From the “about us” page on the website of Falcone Homes:
Falcone Homes Corporation, established in 1993, is jointly owned and operated by Brian & Shawn Falcone. For over 15 years, Brian & Shawn Falcone have worked together to bring both male and female perspectives of luxury and necessity into the homes they build. As a result, Falcone Homes reflects a perfect blend of balanced refinement & functionality which signifies the Falcone family-centric philosophy.
Heathstone Homes Unveils New Website
Hearthstone Homes, one of Omaha’s largest builders, has recently unveiled their new website.
Frankly, it was about time.
Hearthstone Homes needed the face lift badly, as their old website, like many Omaha home builders’ websites, was looking a bit dated.
The new site looks clean and has some nice 2.0 elements that really add to the functionality of their website. Features like drop-down menus and the implementation on the home page of a variety of ways for their potential customers to see what Hearthstone Homes has to offer really stand out when you compare the current website with what they had before.
There are more than a few other Omaha builders would do well to look at what Hearthstone Homes has done, work with their own Omaha web page design consultant and get with the times. So many people use the Internet as a tool while they look at different possible builders for their new home that it is foolish for new home builders to ignore having an attractive, useful website.
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