Bring an energy consultant into your home construction early, especially if you're using steel framing. They'll spot details builders miss, draw on experience with long-term failures, and give you recommendations that prevent expensive repairs down the road.
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what else can we do as we're constructing this home, especially one with a lot of steel because that detail gets missed often on construction documents. So bringing the energy consultant in to get another set of eyes on, and they're the ones that see all these homes years down the road with challenges and failures, and they can say, hey, you know, we need to do this because I've seen it, you know, where it's had to be repaired 10 years down the road or whatever. So getting their input, doing the report, and following through with that