Reply #15: Thanks for this info.

[phylny]

We're planning to build in Virginia in about 5 years, hopefully, and we've been talking about what we want in a house, and how it should be built. Maybe I'll contact you then if you've expanded your operations :) These sites are great.

We've owned four large houses, and we are paying less to heat and cool it than we did our first house - for the very reasons mentioned in other posts. The houses have been very well built, with very good insulation, windows, and energy-efficient furnaces.