Solar Efficiency in Long Island vs. Esthetics

About Patrick, Long Island homeowner who went green: Patrick is a middle aged homeowner who owns and resides in the conventional home converted to a solar and greener home below located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York who decided to go green and make money from his green investments. Patrick has a background in engineering and like allot of Long Island Homeowners got sick of paying the utility companies the rising utility rates and decided to do something about it. Patrick started thinking of ways to wisely invest his money from a one time investment that will keep on producing income for at least the next 25 years, guaranteed with a 20% to 30% return on his initial investment with a 3 to 5 year payback period from the initial solar investment. Instead of paying the utility companies every month a utility bill that he'll never see the money again or can write off, Patrick will earn all that utility money into his own bank account for the next 25 to 30 years from his initial solar investment every single day the sun comes up, even when it's snowing.

Patrick thought about how the solar would look on the front of his house because his front roof faces south. After careful consideration to the solar esthetics on the front of his house and the the profit he would earn from the solar investment, you're looking at Patrick's decision. Patrick now no longer pays for electricity or for domestic hot water/nearly nothing; every day Patrick receives a profit on his solar investment by becoming his own utility company. There is no better feeling than taking a shower or doing the dishes and not hearing the conventional hot water turn on, from a solar investor's perspective; and of course, there's nothing like paying a $5 a month electric utility bill or receiving a check at the end of the year from LIPA for 5% of your annual electric used.

For a conventional house, Patrick made additional green improvements to his home to increase the R factor and heat loss during the winter. For one, and a significant green improvement, Patrick replaced all his windows with triple pane low E gas high tech windows reducing his heat loss by 60% in mid-winter. Folks, this alone is a tremendous profit to the rate of return on this window replacement investment. Windows, even windows with energy star rating are the greatest sources of heat loss in any home or building structure, except perhaps the roof in some cases, and most likely more than in just some cases. Take a quick look here at a picture of a typical conventional home regarding heat loss during winter. We also discuss incorporating heating pools, domestic hot water, and heating homes all in one system, or simply generating domestic hot water in a high efficiency passive solar hot water system. We'll be having full discussions on several different solar system designs that's just right for that particular solar upgrade, always keeping the customer's interest and budget first. A well informed, satisfied customer/client is our biggest asset.

We cannot tell you how many homes we've gone into and there was no insulation between the roof rafters in the attic; under these circumstances, these roofs are the highest point of heat loss in a home, except for walls, windows and doors that have low R factors. A window with an R factor of 9 is not bad; a window with an R factor of 15 is better. a wall with an R factor of 15 is nothing, R factor of 30 for the wall is a little better, green is 85% R factor for the wall and 100% R factor for the ceiling/roof. The R Factor for windows in a green constructed home is between 15 and 45 R Factor and a there are a couple ways to achieve this in green building design.