Your New Green Home and How to Take Care of It: Homeowner Education Manual Template

National Association Of Home Builders

ISBN 10: 0867186739 ISBN 13: 9780867186734

Publisher: Builderbooks, 2010

Use the Your New Green Home and to Take Care of It green homeowner manual template CD to quickly and accurately develop your homeowner education manual. This CD provides step-by-step instructions to customize the template for your unique needs and create a comprehensive homeowner education tool that means the requirements of the National Green Building Standard. It also includes the entire National Green Building Checklist, which allows you to simply check off the practices you included in the home, and delete those that you did not, thus saving you hours of valuable time in manually inputting this information. You'll find customizable text on all 20 of the components listed in Section 1001.1 of the Standard including: local recycling programs, local utiity programs, compact florescent lighting and light emitting diode lighting, energy conservation tips, water conservation tips, local transportation options, safety valvees and controls for major systems in the home, frost-protected shallow foundations, local service providers, photo record of framing with utilities installed, maintenance checklist, commom hazardous materials list, organic pest control, fertilizers, deicers, and cleaning product tips, native landscape and other low-water foliage requirements, maintaining relative humidity in the home,termite inspection instructions,gutter and downspout maintenance. Plus a list of additional green resources to help the homeowner maintan the home.

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