I attended the Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco recently and wanted to share some of the products I found of interest on the display floor. In general I thought the show was a little underwhelming. There was a noticeable absence of luxury items, fewer new technologies and cool gadgets then shows past. A [...]
Archive for June, 2010
“The American way is to invent our future, to seize control of our destiny.” “Innovation is the essence of American economic strength.” So states the introduction to a report released by the American Energy Innovation Council. A group made up of some of the greatest business leaders in our country with the mission to foster [...]
Placer County’s popular mPower Placer financing program has hit a roadblock as a result of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s May 5th letters to companies that sell and service their loans. The letters contained instructions that prohibited brokers from closing any loan that gave another entity priority lien status over a Fannie or Freddie mortgage. The [...]
The next crucial step in our energy audit is combustion safety. What is combustion safety? Any condition in the combustion appliance zone (CAZ) that could be considered a health and safety problem. High ambient carbon monoxide levels or in flue gases, electrical or fire hazards and gas leaks all fall into this category. The CAZ The CAZ [...]
We have completed our client interview and are armed with a list of issues based on that conversation and our analysis of the homes energy usage patterns from the last 12 months utility bills. I use a data collection form I put together which is part checklist and part list of prompts that I use as [...]
