B4UBUILD.com is a website filled with information regarding residential construction & remodeling.  Most of this information is targeted towards site built (stick built) construction.  However, I wanted to point out a few links that are great resources for any type of construction.  These links are found on the lower left hand corner of the B4UBUILD homepage.  The links below will take you directly to the page: Know what to expect…...

National Wildlife Federation’s 7th annual Great American Backyard Campout is coming up this weekend.  Saturday, June 25th thousands of American’s will turn their backyard into campsites.  With tents & fire pits, sleeping bags and bug spray, families will “brave” the wild outdoors in support of the National Wildlife Federation. This event was developed in an effort to get families to spend more time outside. ...

Are the interest rates as low as they are going to get? Are they going to start going back up? Are home prices going to go up? The only honest answer anybody can give you to these questions is: I don’t know.  Short of psychic provenience, no one can accurately predict what the housing market will do.  We do know that interest rates are at historic lows. Most banks and market experts will say that as the economy recovers, costs and...

This is a document that was presented to the Maine Legislature in March of 2010, in an effort to garner support for Geothermal Heating.  This article is written specific to geothermal heat in Maine, using information about our electricity rates as well as cost of oil/propane.  Please keep in mind this information was compiled in the Winter of 2010, and may need slight adjustments to current costs. GeoThermal Systems in...

In my ongoing effort to find relevant material for blog posts, I have several websites & blogs bookmarked.  Today as I browsed my bookmarks, I found reference to modular housing on Mother Nature Network, which is a site I pull a lot of information for our green blog posts from.  They have posted a time lapsed video of a modular home set.  Click Here to watch the video. Why would Mother Nature Network highlight modular housing?  Modular...