Once again, Cozy Home Performance is proud to sponsor the Kestrel Land Trust 5K for Farmland & Farmers' Market Festival on October 16, 2016. The importance of conserving open space and farm is crucial. We don't take the natural beauty we see each day for granted and are happy to invest in its protection now and forever. Please donate and, or, participate in this great event.
Fairway Village Condominiums roof and attic thermal boundary retrofit located in Leeds, Ma. The results were very evident with the roofs showing no snow melt patterns or menacing ice dams. The condo board recognized that the only effective way to stop the chronic ice damming woes was to interface the insulation retrofit in with the roof replacement.
This newly purchased home that had a history of ice damming & high energy costs. Upon inspection, the attic & front knee wall only had 2" of old insulation. Heat from the living space was escaping into the knee wall area and warming the roof deck which leads to snow melt and severe ice dams. This thermal envelope flaw is very common with Cape styled houses.
Local general Contractor, Wade Clement, hired Cozy Home to design and rebuild the building envelope of a 100-year-old cottage. Compared to new construction, retrofits require a great deal of thought and detail. This building had post and beam framing along with interior stud wall framing.
A rewarding collaboration is emerging between Transformation, Inc, a net-zero energy community builder, and Cozy Home Performance, LLC. A few months ago Transformations contacted CHP to discuss the opportunity to work with them on their net-zero energy home building projects in Easthampton and Northampton. CHP was sought out because of their tremendous building envelope installation practices and, specifically, for attention to the integrity of the air barrier.
EASTHAMPTON – The City Council wanted to wait for final documents before considering aneasement agreement between the city and Pleasant Street mill property owners. The council has set a Sept. 4 public hearing on the agreement that will require a two-thirds vote of the council to be approved. City attorney John H. Fitz-Gibbon said there was some Continue reading
HERS Rating stands for Home Energy Rating System. This system uses highly developed software to compare the projected energy use of planned and actual homes with standard reference homes.Projected ratings give owners and builders an estimate of what a home’s efficiency will be like after construction or improvements, so that they may determine the Continue reading
Now, we humans are resourceful and in New England we are proven pragmatists. This is so beautifully illustrated with insulation manufactured from the early 1900's. The old days of cold and drafty log and stone dwellings provided structure but not much insulating performance. So when wood platform, balloon framed housing was developed so came the Continue reading
Northampton, MA May 2013 $2,760 Project Incentive Columbia Gas/Mass Save Mark, I have been meaning to write and thank you and your crew for the work. You guys are an amazing group to work with and an absolute delight to have in our home. We recognized how hard everyone worked to get the project done Continue reading
Per the norm, the NESEA Building Energy 2013 conference was superb! Professional, insightful, educational and above all, for me, inspirational. Whether catching up with colleagues or keenly listening to the exceptional session speakers, there was a clear undercurrent of passion. I did not anticipate how uplifting this would be. I was moved to hear and Continue reading
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