This is a story about making my house green. I haven't started yet. We'll all do it together. I certainly need your help.
We're starting with a 1957 ranch, with a 1/2 story running lengthwise underneath. The house sits the long way across a downslope hill in Mill Valley, CA, with the full lengths of the back of the upper and lower floors facing south-southeast.
There is nothing in the construction that is energy efficient except some large double-glazed, low-e windows and doors that we put in about 5 years ago. They replaced large single-pane metal framed windows, and a single swinging door out onto the back deck.
When we originally moved in, in 2002, I didn't think much about the building's efficiency. I could see that most of its systems needed work. But I also saw that the layout was very functional, and that there was good access to a lot of the home's systems through 2 large crawl spaces.
I've worked in the crawl spaces. And I've even been into the walls a bit. But now it's time to energize.