Ideal Homes - Anything else is less than ideal.

We’ve already addressed that energy efficient homes can lower a homeowner’s energy costs, and explained that our incorporation of Energy Star appliances into our Oklahoma City new homes has helped our buyers save time and time again. But what else can energy efficiency do for you?

In each of our Oklahoma City new homes, energy efficiency results in more favorable living conditions for our homeowners. Unlike new home builders that don’t adopt energy efficient practices, Ideal Homes offers a home living environment that is more:

Cost-effective: Lower utility bills mean more money for other obligations – including your mortgage, which could potentially be paid off more quickly as a result of your savings.

Durable: Less wear and tear on the home’s infrastructure means increased protection of your investment.

Comfortable: Your quality of life can be enhanced by minimized noise, emissions, and other pollutants.

Sustainable: An energy efficient Oklahoma home contributes to the longevity of its local environment, including the outdoor landscaping.

Each Oklahoma City new home that we build is twice as energy efficient as Energy Star qualifications in heating and cooling.  What would you do with an extra $50 – $80 bucks a month?

Although we were among the first Oklahoma green homebuilders to partner with Energy Star, did you know that Ideal Homes energy efficient new homes are now built twice as efficient as the international standard bearer. Yes, it’s true! How, you ask? In the spirit of our pledge (to keep buyers informed on the ways in which our homes are energy efficient, one revelation may shed some light:

Our homeowners save anywhere from $50 to $80 more per month on their heating and cooling costs in their Oklahoma green home, than they would on a home that was simply built to standard code. In fact, over the past five years, we’ve saved our homeowners a collective $3.5 million on heating and cooling costs. If your heating or cooling bill exceeds the monthly amount we tell you to expect on average, we’ll reimburse you. In other words, we’re more than confident! Now that’s efficient.

Of course, the reimbursement will be based on usage, rather than cost; we have no way to regulate the cost per kilowatt/therm unit charged by the utility company. Fortunately, we rarely need to address the issue; because unlike the energy used in a standard code home, the energy consumed by owners of Ideal Homes is low by comparison. You may be using the same amount of heating and cooling services that you did in your former home, but not know it – our conservation methods are that effective.

By now, savvy buyers are aware of the benefits of green homes; among them, energy efficient new homes, which is nearly guaranteed to reduce a homeowner’s utility costs. How have we incorporated energy efficiency into our new homes? Probably in more ways than most of our buyers realize! It’s one thing to say that a home features the popular, effective Energy Star appliance brand (and ours do). It’s quite another to present the kind of environmental credentials that we at Ideal Homes do – and have, for the past two decades.

That’s right: Before “green” was popular, Ideal Homes was partnering with some of the most respected environmental authorities in the nation, including the federal government – specifically, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Build America Program and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to build energy efficient new homes in Oklahoma. Of course, we have also worked with countless third party entities, including top notch research groups, to test our energy efficient building strategies for environmental friendliness.

And it doesn’t end there. Over the coming weeks, we will reveal a number of ways in which Ideal Homes has lead the way in developing a plentiful inventory of environmentally sound and energy efficient new homes. Our  energy efficient homes are among the best there is and we can’t wait to tell you why – so stay tuned!