Marc Roy

Boost Your Home’s Value with External Rendering

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Thinking about selling your home in the near or distant future? Chances are good that even if selling your property isn’t on your mind right now, you’ll eventually want to move. As a location changes, sometimes what really appealed to your family isn’t there anymore. We’ve seen plenty of locations around the country that haver either wildly expanded or contracted.

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If you are living in a small place that used to have a larger population, you might be feeling like something is missing. On the flip side, if your small place turned into a much larger area, you might start feeling like you’re being pushed out. The best way to go with selling your home is to plan early. You want to do everything you can to raise your home’s value. Of course, since value is a subjective thing, we’ll want to focus on the tasks that are well known to increase the price of a home. One thing that you can schedule in the near future would be external rendering.

When we get a home rendered, we’re unlocking a wide host of benefits. If you go with the K-Rend material, you’ll have a wide range of options that are all designed around one thing: protecting your home from the elements. To top it off, there of extended options that k rend approved installers can bring to your attention. [Read more…]

Make Your Steel Building More Energy-Efficient by Topping it with Cool Roof

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Energy efficiency is one of the key features of steel buildings. This is part of the reason they became a popular code-approved solution for constructing structurally sound buildings, ranging from agricultural and industrial applications to commercial and residential use.

There are many ways steel buildings exemplify their energy-saving quality. To start with, their production takes up little energy and uses recycled water which also makes them a green solution. Also, since their components are lightweight they are very easy to transport, requiring lesser deliveries, equating to reduction in fuel usage and less carbon emissions. Once built, they create a watertight envelope and they also allow for the installation of continuous insulation and ventilation. These things, of course, help prevent leak penetration and better air circulation indoors, thereby reducing too much reliance on HVAC use.

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If you own a steel building, it is likely that you are aware of your structures energy-saving capabilities. And by now, you are surely enjoying the benefit of reduced monthly energy costs. But, why stop there when you can further improve such excellent quality of your building by topping it off with a cool roof? SHS Roofing professionals say, “Roofs are also very expensive, usually costing thousands of dollars. Roofs should last at least a few decades, if not more. This makes selecting the right roofing product of the utmost importance.”

Cool roof in brief

Basically, a cool roof is a covering system that works just like a mirror. That is, instead of absorbing the heat coming from the sun, it simply reflects it back into the space, thereby keeping the temperature of the roof surface lower and thus reducing the amount of heat that is transferred indoors. The coolness level of a roof is largely determined by two properties: solar reflectance and thermal emittance. Both factors are gauged on a scale of zero to one, with one having the highest reflective or emissive quality. [Read more…]