Tag Archives: Looking Back

Building Green Homes: Step 10 – Drywall & Finishes

alabama-green-building-completedThis is the last article in this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward involving the actual building process. In the last nine articles, we have gone over the major steps from designing to building a green home we completed over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how one can utilize those
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Building Green Homes: Step 9 – Insulation

demilic-soy-installed-sls-construction-alabama-green-building-wallsIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can utilize those lessons on future builds. In the past articles, we have covered quite a few topics (listed at the end) and have left off
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Building Green Homes: Step 8 – Interior Framing, Rough-In’s

mother-in-law-dual-cabinIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can utilize those lessons on future builds. In the last two articles we covered in the drying in portion of the building. This process is necessary
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Building Green Homes: Step 7 – Drying In the Walls / Air Sealing

Fully Dried InSorry, for the short break we took on this series entitled Looking Back & Looking Forward. As a reminder we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article,
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Building Green Homes: Step 6 – Drying In the Roof

Snow DustingIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, we got all the exterior framing completed & sheathed.   In
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Building Green Homes: Step 5 – Building the Shell

Framing - layout is firstIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, we covered the installation from the footings to the sub-flooring
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Building Green Homes: Step 4 – From Footings to Sub-Floor

Alabama Green Build Ready for FramingIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article on footing & foundation system we used, we explained why
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Building Green Homes: Step 3 – Footings & Foundations

Alabama_Green_Foundation_SystemIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. As a quick recap, we have looked at some of the unique issues we
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Building Green Homes: Step 2 – Layout & Orientation

Alabama_Green_Foundation_SystemIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. Now that we have a set of building plans for an Energy Efficient Green
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Building Green Homes: Step 1 – Design & Modeling

Energy_Modeling_MILcabinIn this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can utilize those lessons on future builds. As everyone knows, you don’t start building without a plan (hopefully I can find that file soon). While this
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