Building Green in the Texas Hill Country

When it comes to new home construction, our team at Weston Dean Custom Homes is constantly working to improve our practices—and that includes focusing on creating homes centered around energy efficiency. Read on to see all of the benefits that come from building green. 

Save more on utilities 

When you focus on building your custom home with green building construction practices and products, your home becomes more energy efficient through proper insulation and air sealing. With well-insulated windows and energy efficient appliances and other household items used throughout the home—it’s possible that you could see a monthly savings on your electricity bills up to 65 percent. 

Energy prices continue to rise, so making it a priority now to do everything you can in your home to make it as efficient as possible will only help you in the long run. The overall design of the home can also play a huge role in keeping the home energy efficient and increasing your overall savings while ensuring that your home is kept comfortable. When you build your custom home with our team, we know that the position of your home can help take advantage of the sun’s energy throughout the day to provide free natural heat in the colder months—saving you even more on energy bills. 

Live healthy 

At Weston Dean Custom Homes, we make it our mission to create high-quality homes that will keep your family safe and comfortable. It’s for this reason that we continue to use more green building practices as they become known. In some cases, certain chemicals can be emitted from building materials that could potentially be harmful to your health if they are not properly addressed. Building green means that we are using products and materials in our homes that significantly reduce or completely eliminate these sources of indoor pollution. Products such as low-VOC paint, solvent-free adhesives and water-based wood finishes keep your family safe while also even performing better over the years than some of the traditional products used by builders. 

Less maintenance and higher durability

Green building products offer a higher level of durability than other building materials—often exceeding building code requirements on construction standards. Using material made from recycled plastic and wood fibers for your deck, having durable tile or linoleum for your flooring, using fiber-cement siding and using resilient roofing materials that can last up to 50 years can all save you money by reducing maintenance needs and replacement costs. 

Keeping your home environmentally-friendly 

The most important reason why building green is the best way to go? It’s environmentally-friendly. Using green building materials is an incredible way to help preserve our natural resources—positively impacting your community just as much as your home itself. 

For over 10 years, our team at Weston Dean Custom Homes has worked tirelessly to create a better way to build custom homes in the Texas hill country. If you’re ready to build your custom home while keeping design excellence as well as energy efficiency in mind, fill out our online form or give us a call today at (210) 408-9107.