Building Green – Improving our Environment


Horst Custom Homes incorporates environmental considerations throughout every phase of the home building process. This includes prioritizing energy and water efficiency, resource-efficient building design and materials, lot development, indoor environmental quality, and homeowner maintenance. By adopting these principles, Horst Custom Homes ensures that their homes have a minimal impact on the environment.
Energy consumption has far-reaching environmental impact, making it a top priority in any green building program. Horst Custom Homes prioritizes energy efficiency in their homes to ensure that homeowners can enjoy significant energy savings.
ADDITIONAL GREEN FEATURES:
  • Custom designed floor plans to accommodate various site conditions
  • Design flexibility in incremental lengths creates less material waste
  • Cut to length lumber saves energy and waste
  • Utilizing engineered wood products in construction
  • Engineered roof trusses use less lumber than conventional rafters while increasing load bearing capacity • 24″ on-center construction not only uses less lumber, but also provides more insulation, thus saving energy as compared to 16″ on-center spacing
  • Bulk purchasing of adhesives and paint saves waste
  • Energy Star rated appliances available
  • Manufacturing process incorporates recycling of wire, cardboard, steel, drywall, sheathing and water

Insulation:

Horst Custom Homes OWENS CORNING INNOVATIONS FOR LIVING® PINKIBOAS BALATON 31 R.19 E61

  • EcoTouch® insulation •
  • Certified to include 58% total recycled content, including a minimum of 36% post-consumer recycled content
  • GREENGUARD Children & Schools certified and verified to be formaldehyde free
  • Contains more than 99% natural ingredients • Enable home and building to achieve energy-efficiency and green building certifications.

Horst Custom Homes OWENS CORNING INNOVATIONS FOR LIVING® PINKIBOAS BALATON 31 R.19 E61

  • Cellulose provides a higher R value per inch than fiberglass Cellulose “tightens” buildings better, fitting easily around pipes and electrical wiring
  • Class 1, Type A building material • Highest recycled content
  • Cellulose insulation is 85% recycled paper fiber • Chemically blended product with stabilizer

Horst Custom Homes OWENS CORNING INNOVATIONS FOR LIVING® PINKIBOAS BALATON 31 R.19 E61

  • Matte® Plus-3 is a rigid foam plastic thermal insulation board composed of environmentally sound, closed cell, polyisocyanurate foam bonded to a durable white-matte (non-glare) aluminum facer and a reflective reinforced aluminum facer.
  • 3/4″ Foam Polyboard, provides R value us 5.0 • Impermeable foil facing the repels water and guards against air infiltration
  • Complies with: ASTM C1289 Type I, Class 1, Air barrier material per ASTM E2178 R-Matte Plus-3 is Energy Star approved Features, specifications and colors subject to change without notice 03-2016

DuPont Tyvek

PROUDLY PRESENTING THE MIRACLES OF DuPont™ Tyvek® DuPont™ Tyvek® HomeWrap®, our premier brand, is used in residential construction under all cladding types. It protects your house like a windbreaker, stopping the wind and rain from getting in – forming a protective skin around the house. And since it also breathes, moisture inside the house can get out, which helps prevent costly water damage.

Tyvek® HomeWrap® helps keep insulation dry so it will perform more efficiently, keeping you and your family more comfortable. Wrapping a home in a “protective envelope” is a good building practice that helps combat a home’s worst enemies: water, moisture and air infiltration.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: Tyvek® used in construction products is made from 100% flash spunbonded high density polyethylene fibers which have been bonded together by heat and pressure, without binders or fillers, into a tough, durable sheet structure. Additives have been incorporated into the polyethylene to provide ultraviolet light resistance. DuPont suggests that Tyvek® HomeWrap® be covered within four months of installation.

Meets the ASTM E1677 Type 1 Air Retarder when installed according to Tyvek® best practices. See installation instructions on label.

Balance of Performance