Fix or Remodel a Home / Building
Affordable Housing matters. Affordable Living matters more.
Every action has a reaction. You add insulation and another surface gets colder. You seal air leaks and moisture loses its escape route. Find out what the building is telling you before you open a wall.
Your path, one step at a time
Start here
Carbonless Retrofit & Remodeling Guide, Second Edition
For people working on real houses. Not perfect ones. Learn how heat, air and moisture move through an existing house before you start tearing things apart.
$49
Do the work
How to Make a Thermal Break on the Inside of Your Home
The method for making an existing home dramatically more efficient from the inside, without tearing the exterior apart. 279 pages, 30 chapters, 88 building assemblies.
$169
See it done
The Retrofit & Remodel Field Guide — The NightMare
Nearly 200 field photographs from more than 25 real projects. See what failed, learn why it failed, then make a better decision before you close the building back up.
Digital $199 · Hardcover $249
Look up the numbers
Carbonless Wall & Roof Assemblies Library
Verified whole-wall R and U values for walls, roofs and rim joists, so you know what a wall really does before you rebuild it.
$299
Learn the why
Super Energy Efficient Building Audio Course
14 narrated modules on heat, air, moisture, walls, roofs, windows and HVAC, in plain English.
$149
Go all the way: Carbonless 2126
What’s a Stick? A Stick is one lesson in Carbonless 2126. We named them after the sticks beavers build with: each one teaches one part of building a healthier, more comfortable, energy-efficient home or building, and each one builds on the last.
Forty Sticks of education that look at a building from all Sixteen Seats at the table, from the landowner to the person who will live there a hundred years from now. No products to sell. Just better decisions.
Stick 0 is free. $100 per Stick, or $3,900 for the complete program.
Talk to Brian
Stuck on a decision? Book time with me and bring your plans, your photos or your questions.
30 minutes $250 · 1 hour $500 · 2 hours $1,000 · 4 hours $2,000
Building from scratch? Go to Build a New Home / Building.