There are many reasons and ways to go green with your house. In this episode of the Angie’s List podcast, hear from homeowners as well as architects, builders, and other home contractors about green building and remodeling. Find out where to get started in your sustainable product research, as well as how much Earth-friendly building costs. You might be surprised! Click the play button below to listen to this episode.
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You look through windows every day, but how often do you think about replacing those on your home? The window installation contractors we talk to in this episode tell us when you should consider replacing your home’s windows, and they also share the window industry’s latest trends and technologies, which are all about customization and energy efficiency. Continue reading ‘Episode 9:
Window contractors share the latest trends and technology’
How would you feel if someone wanted to buy the beachfront home your family built decades ago, just so it could be demolished and replaced with luxury townhouses and condos? Would you gladly sell — you’re getting tired of those noisy, crashing waves, anyway — or would you put up a fight, like Long Branch, New Jersey’s Lori Vendetti? Continue reading ‘Episode 8: Eminent Domain:
This land is my land, this land is your land.’
Listen up as we share our first-ever list of the Best and Worst Contractors, as found in Angie’s List magazine. Over the years, we’ve received some pretty amazing reports on service providers working in a variety of fields. Some companies provide consistently excellent service, while others provide the opposite. So for the first time, we’ve decided to put a list together recognizing the best home contractors of 2007 and wagging our collective finger at the worst. Continue reading ‘Episode 4: The Best and Worst Contractors of 2007′
In this episode of List-en up!, we talk to some of the winners of the Angie’s List Homestead History Contest, in which we asked members to share stories about their homes’ uniqueness. Seth Dewey of Philadelphia told us about his artistic endeavor to renovate a dilapidated loft. Angela Dallo moved from metropolitan New York into a charming storybook house in Irvington, a historic district in Indianapolis. Ruth Housman’s Newton Center, Massachusetts home shares its long history with Timothy Leary and various boarding-house occupants (possibly even a ghost!) And finally, Scott Miller wrote a song, called “Our Homestead,” about his and his wife’s humble Kent, Washington abode. Congratulations to the winners! Continue reading ‘Episode 3: Home Sweet Home: Homestead History Contest Winners’






