Posts Tagged ‘energy efficient homes in seattle’

Invigorated Green Houses Being Built on Queen Anne Hill

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

The answer to a lackluster housing market in Seattle is to invigorate it with some extreme green homes.  This has been the mantra for Seattle award winning green builder Martha Rose for the last three years during which time the Seattle new home building market has been a mere image of its former self.

New energy-efficient homes

Rose, believes that the recent downshifting in the housing market is an excellent time to introduce an even more energy efficient product to their home building lineup. Sensing part of the home buying population has become increasingly frustrated with maintaining an older home and are looking to re-establish themselves within an amenity rich urban neighborhood, wanting to be close to libraries, markets, churches, parks and free from week-end home repair projects while having a home that is energy-efficient, healthy and sustainable.

High-performance homes in the city

Rose’s newest spec-built-high performance homes, City Cabins,  located in  Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill neighborhood could easily be the new “lifestyle house” for a targeted group of buyers looking for a well designed, environmentally  responsible house in a neighborhood centric area.

Rose’s Built-Green City Cabins will be a perfect example of adding value to the community by building less, smaller homes that are more environmentally friendly that blend seamlessly into the existing neighborhood.

The City Cabins will be about 2000 sq.ft. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and will be equipped with mini-splits and Fantech’s heat-recovery-ventilator system that runs continuously at low speeds and acts as the lungs of the home providing fresh air 24/7.  Both homes will be wired and plumbed for an electric vehicle, solar panels and solar hot water tubes. The northern house is being equipped with a 2kw solar panel system being designed and installed by local solar company A & R Solar.

City Cabins are scheduled for a November 2011 completion, for more information contact Adrian Willanger 206 909-7536.

Recent blogs about City Cabins:

Seattle Green Builder Strives for Net Zero Homes

Queen Anne Hill New Home Project Chooses A & R Solar

Homes of the Future Being Built Today on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill

A Cabin for All Seasons

A Mosaic of Eco-Efficiency on Queen Anne Hill

City Cabins in Seattle are Designed for both Passive and Active Solar Heating

Don’t Overlook the Small Things in Green Building

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

By, Staff Eco-Redux 

Programmable Thermostats Being Installed in Every Room at Fish Singer Place 

  

  

Programmable thermostats have become very popular to a lot of homes because of the many benefits that can be gained by using them. Aside from the energy-saving features, their low greenhouse gas emissions also do not contribute much to global warming. But what really sets them apart is that you have total control over how they will function for a certain period of time; whether it is just for a few hours, a single day or the whole week, the choice is really yours. At Fish Singer Place, we adhere to our name of being the most environment-friendly and cost-efficient neighborhood in the country and the programmable thermostat helps us in living up to this name. 

  

Our Energy Star programmable thermostats allow you to maintain personal comfort all over the home through pre-set temperature levels that are more accurate than manual thermostats. When used properly this device can save you as much as $150 a year. And what more is needed, since they consume less energy and they are eco-friendly. 

  

The programmable thermostats do really adjust according to the needs of homeowners who work outside and have different schedules during weekends, as they can be programmed to adjust to the times when the owners are home. The homeowners can program the units whether they are at home or not, awake or asleep, warm or cold at any time of the day and night, just to match their lifestyle. For example, they can be adjusted for a warmer temperature when the owner wakes up in the morning or a colder one at noon. 

  

Another advantage of programmable thermostats is that these can be programmed to repeat the settings on multiple days or the whole week so that you do not have to keep changing the settings time and again, thus providing more flexibility of movement inside or outside the house. This is very useful on times when you are in a rush to leave the house and when reaching the office, you recall that you forgot to turn the thermostat off. With a manual one, this is a problem but with the programmable thermostat, you can be rest assured that no such thing will happen.  

  

The heating and cooling of home spaces account for almost 40% of the average home’s usage of energy. With programmable thermostats in every Fish Singer Place home, the rooms’ temperatures are all automatically adjusted to the comfort zone of the owners thus; no energy is wasted even when no one is at home. 

  

With the sealing and insulation standards being met at each Fish Singer Place home, homeowners are assured that the installed programmable thermostats supply proper ventilation and fresh air inside the house at all times. Likewise, the amount of heating and cooling is optimized as the temperature inside the home is contained by Energy Star’s sealing and insulating standards. 

  

Living up to the expectations of the environment conscious homeowners is strictly followed at Fish Singer Place. With our cost efficient Energy Star appliances, we assure homeowners of annual savings in energy consumption and eco-friendly environment. The programmable thermostat with its energy efficiency, the ease and comfort it provides and the environmental friendly features it owns, is an attribute that every Fish Singer Place home is proud of.