Green building has some great concepts but there is a huge learning curve for some of those applications. For instance there at least a 5 step process for getting the wells installed on your property. All of these are coordinated as individual crews. The end result in savings is huge once the payback on the system is achieved, but expect delays in getting through the process of the install. The crews who do this work are few and extremely busy. The ones who installed our latest Geo thermal home has to crisscross the entire state and the delay can be months even to get on the list. Right now there are only 2 installers who service our state for the well install with the vertical closed system which is the more desireable than the pump and dump system. I can imagine someday that all homes may be required to install such a system.
Other green items are much easier to achieve like building rain gardens or insulating your home with closed cell foam products which have now been on the market for sometime. Those benefits can be seen immediately.
Our parade of homes is fast approaching and we have much to do in advance of theat August 20th start date. The home I was talking about will be the featured home for this year. It is designed for us boomers and beyond with ADA accessability features that allow us to live longer in our home rather than going to "The Home".
The demand for this new construction and housing is huge. Did you know that in our head of house hold population over 45 accounts for more that 60% of all households in our area of Black Hawk County. That is just a staggering number that will desire what is now called "Active Adult Housing" or "Aging in Place".
The neat thing about this housing is that it works for other demographics as well. With our family sizes smaller these homes work for almost anyone and the resale for these home is huge.
We started building these units in the Heritage Hills Estates subdivision off GreenHill road area just east of Main St in Cedar Falls as single family residences with an association to cover the lawn care and snow removal. Last year at our Parade of Homes we had our best Parade ever with basicly 4 home commitments on day one. Stop out and see us at the parade or just drop in and take a look if anyone is at the site. However do not go in unassited to any of these homes for liabilty reasons.
Off to work for today
"Craig the Builder"
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