Imagine you and your crew are sailing in
the middle of the ocean. You notice the deck of your boat
is quite wet. Do you ignore it and hope the problem goes
away?, Or, do you try and find the hole and patch it up?
Why
content matters
Part 2: Climate more important
than borders
Drive down a suburban street in Chandler, Arizona, or Dunwoody,
Georgia, or Newberg, Oregon, or Katy, Texas; look at the
houses. What do they have in common? Well, aside from four
walls and a roof, not much. And the reason? Besides the
fact that each state imposes its own set of building codes
and requirements, the greatest disparity between these houses
are the features built to suit each home’s climate.
Brick or stucco, basement, storm cellar or neither, harsh weather insulation, double paned glass, asphalt shingles, slate or cedar shakes, wood-burning or gas-fireplace…there are dozens of examples of why maintenance information cannot be one size fits all.
And,
climates don’t respect state boundaries Just think
of the stately Victorians of Sausalito, California and the
stucco-walled, rancho adobes that sit a mere 500 miles downstate
in Poway. Each have their charms, but each also presents
unique maintenance issues based on the
amount of rain, temperature swings, geological features
and the variances in building material characteristics
Each solution is reviewed by a series of experts who understand what a home needs in order to perform to its unique climate...desert, oceanic, humid continental, sub-tropical or temperate. They look to see that the best practices are accurate, consistent and properly articulated.
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