The main drain.
Ninety-five percent of the water in your basement comes from your roof. So while you might have a drain or sump downstairs, your problem is probably a few floors up.
Futureproofing
Or, “What’s your house going to look like in a hundred years?”
The home I live in has already hit the century mark, and while some folks might say “I don’t want an old house,” I would remind them: old houses were built at a time when things were meant to last.
If it’s good enough for the Space Shuttle, it’s good enough for me.
Nanogel insulation technology lets in light, keeps out cold.
I’m not usually a “good enough” sort of guy, but when I started researching Nanogel and discovered that NASA used it to insulate their spacecraft, I thought, yeah, this might be good enough for the houses I build.
I’m as sick of hot air as the rest of you.
I’m not even going to get into forced-air heating. It’s sporadic, inefficient and, look, I’m getting hot already.
We’ve been barking up the wrong house.
Introducing a brand-new siding technology that’s proven itself for centuries.
This is one of those really crazy ideas. One of those far-out, that’ll-never-fly concepts that only looks good on paper. Except that it works, right there on the side of your house.
In the battle between water and stone, water always wins. Now imagine the battle between water and your house.
The Grand Canyon wasn’t carved in a day, but it was carved by the same stuff that’s in your coffee cup. Water. And right now, water is invading your home whether you can see it or not.
The fallacies of cement fiberboard siding.
I’m not here to talk trash about anyone, but when I see a product that pretty much amounts to siding your house with wet newspaper, I’m going to make a stink.
If we can stay warm and dry driving 70 mph in the rain, why can’t we keep wind and water out of our houses?
Maybe we’re not trying hard enough. I mean, we have the technology: we’ve been flying F-16s at twice the speed of sound through rainclouds for years now, and yet we can’t keep a 20 mph breeze from blowing through our fancy, store-bought windows.