Comfort, Indoor Air Quality, Structural Stability, Durability and Resiliency.
These values and standard measures we take to give you a Renewed Home. Our design team inspects your house with these items in mind. This paired with an insistence on creating a new layout that addresses all of your home life's stresses as well helps you plan for the next few decades of life in your home will address the disappointment noted above and the additional items you’ve thought of since starting to read this.
Comfort
It does not have to be a different temperature in each room of your home, wearing slippers in the bathroom should be optional, you shouldn't have to wear a jacket at the dining room table during thanksgiving.
If the thermostat is set to 72 everywhere in the house should be 72 right? Addressing the 4 building enclosure control layers correctly, designing to minimize thermal bridging, and opting for high performance windows allows for this crazy idea to be a reality: 72 means 72.
Yes, high performance triple pane windows are more expensive than standard dual pane windows. This noise is another item to tackle that commonly goes overlooked. When have you been in your house and wanted to hear the HVAC turn on, the dryer spin and clank the jacket zipper, the toilet flush? To go even further, what do you want to hear except your family (maybe not) and what you’re focused on at the moment?
Acoustical transmission has been studied extensively for recording studios and we take the technology and adapted for typical residential construction. Whether you're the light sleeper or your newborn is, we have options to make your home quiet. Staggered walls and interior mineral wool insulations are standard.
Indoor air quality
What is an air freshener for except to mask an underlying issue.
What is an air freshener for except to mask an underlying issue.
Outside of human error (life): Managing moisture, introducing fresh air, and upgrading your filtration system in your home can make these issues a thing of the past. Our design team and expert HVAC technicians collaborate to create a healthy home. If you have ants inside, the air quality will always be less than acceptable. Ask us how we can address your ant problem while we give you a consistent breath of fresh air.
Waking up with congestion no matter the season is not required.
You cannot get the mold smell out of the laundry room, bathroom, basement bedroom?
Structural Stability
Ask us about deflection rate and subfloor resonance and other ways we deal with these issues
The China cabinet shakes when your partner walks by, the floor bounces during the clothes washer spin cycle, and the pictures fall off the wall when the front door slams. When did you want your house to bounce or shake?
Our above code framing details affords a stronger and sturdier home with a sense of security.
Durability and Resilience
What if we could be a 100 year house? What if the structure, building enclosure and major mechanical systems we designed, tuned and maintained with that in mind? Here at Renew we are striving for this at a baseline. Legacy is typically associated with money and business. Its focus is on maintaining, growing and sustaining in order to pass on to your children or apprentice with a clear opportunity of success. Legacy building has these same goals but with your home.
We want your home to be stress free, resilient, and durable. And when you decide to give this to your kids, its usable life and maintenance cost is that of a new home. You are setting them up for success.
