In conjunction with NADRA, Fiberon & many other fine organizations & companies, we at AlaGBS ~ SLS Construction would like to remind you that May is National Deck Safety Month & encourage you to check your deck. This year Fiberon has created a great looking ...
May is quite an interesting month. It seems to be a month of first’s and last’s; the last full month of spring, the last day of school, the first of many holidays, the first start to summer vacations, the first gripes on it being to ...
With summertime fast approaching, many just can’t wait to hit the roads & go on vacation. When we first started out it was packing up the vehicle & sleeping in tents at a campground or staying at a hotel. As we started getting just a ...
While we love building wood decks, many customers are opting to go with composites & vinyl decking materials due to the reduced maintenance that is involved. There are a few items that we stress / i.e. bust a few common myths like there is no ...
If you have been following along with our articles on Deck Maintenance we have covered almost everything from inspecting your deck, regular routine maintenance, to choosing the proper product for sealing you wood decks. This now leads us to our final article on how to ...
Air can easily leak in and out of a home through cracks, joints between different materials, where holes have been drilled to allow pipes and wire to enter the structure, and many other openings. Some of the popular areas for air leakage is around doors, ...
In our last article, “Energy Efficiency vs. Conservation – what is the real issue?” we covered plenty of the issues that involve your actual house while it is being worked on. While we have also had several articles on making your house more energy efficient, ...
Yes folks, I know it’s only Day 5, but I am going to combine tomorrows post into todays. I am going to do this for a few reasons; Number 1 tomorrow is the final test day, and that is all we will be working on. Number 2, there are a few updates on the RRP Read more ...
Today can easily be summed up into three areas; reviewing the homework and test house data we got, some marketing from Southface, and how to use and enter data in the RESNET program. Wow, that was a quick recap… Hmmm, how about we cover what the components of a HERS Rating are & what to expect when we arrive to perform this specific rating?
Woo Hoo – 3 days down and 3 to go. Today we actually got to go out in the field and do the measurements for 1 of the 2 field tests we need to accomplish. For a small place (1111 SF), it sure had enough twists and turns to make ones head almost spin, but Read more ...
Got to love it… first they state that the math part is over, nah… what they really meant, is that now they are going to introduce new formulas and simply just call it practical applications. My goodness, the last time I had to deal with this much math using just a calculator or pen and paper Read more ...
Well after a few of my fellow friends on Twitter, and a few others that follow the HRC encouraged me to blog about my training for RESNET HERS & BPI, I decided to go for it. Part of the interest, revolves around what the differences really are between the two programs, and in this case Read more ...
As many of you know or have seen, we at SLS Construction are now offering Residential, Commercial, & Industrial Infrared Thermographic Inspections throughout Alabama. This has led to a few questions that we thought we would try to answer all in one place. In layman’s terms, what is Infrared Thermography? It is utilizing technology to Read more ...
Day’s 5 & 6: RESNET HERS Training
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