Comfort By Design: HVAC & Insulation Phase of the Construction Process

That's correct.

There are many phases to a well-built home and those finishes are important.

That's what you see when you walk in the house, but equally important is how is that house over the life of that home performing and the carbon footprint and the comfort factor and the things that come into the insulation package and the caulk and seal package.

And as our listeners know, we build in both the Park City market and the St. Louis, Missouri market.

A lot of similarities in how we build.

We use a lot of foam.

We do a lot of caulk and seal.

We use blown-in blankets.

Really, what we're talking about is just different elevations, if you will.

So we might use different insulation when it comes to the materials and things like that.

But overall, the process is basically the same, right?

It is.

And it's good to make that distinction between caulk and seal and insulation because it's two different items.

But we do things a little bit differently between the two markets, but a lot of similarities.

So there aren't really many different materials or approaches then.

I know, Kim, you're kind of our Park City expert today.

And Chris, you're going to be our St. Louis expert because as I was pulling this together, I just assumed that there'd be completely different approaches.

No, there's really not.

What Chris had mentioned just a moment ago, it all comes down to that caulk and seal package, the air sealing package, and then on into the insulation package itself.

Some applications might require a little bit more foam.

Some will require maybe a little bit of a different blown-in blanket.

We call it BIBS system.

But overall, the actual insulation process in both markets is similar.

Now, we do have different building zones in which we're working.

For example— The Missouri area where we're building here is zone four.