Consulting & Decision Support

re-HOME consultants are flexible in the ways that we can work with you.

For example, we can manage a specific renovation project for you from start to finish, taking charge and leading the way. Or at the other extreme, we can work with you on a call-to-call basis to help you manage your own project. We work equally well with do-it-yourselfers as with those who would rather us just take care of the project.

Consulting for home owners and renters may include but are not limited to the following:

Energy efficiency consulting:

  • re-HOME consultants can come into your home informally to help show you the quick and easy, but non-construction-type, ways to make your home more energy efficient.
  • We give 'energy assessments' more formally as well. Please see our 'energy assessment' offerings.

Decision support:

  • The people at the Home Show recommended new Low-E windows. However, should you really get new windows or is your money best spent elsewhere?
  • Your brother-in-law is raving about his whole-house fan. Yet, you wonder: Is that the best way to take advantage of the diurnal temperature swings in Tucson?
  • You want to get 'off-the-grid'. What is the best, most efficient way to start this process?
  • Your landlord has given you permission to utilize your grey water. How can you most easily (an inexpensively) go about doing that?

Project management:

  • Leading and coordinating the general- and sub-contractors for green remodeling, retrofitting, or energy efficiency projects
  • Coordinating and submitting documentation for permits, green rating programs

Green lifestyle coaching

  • You are thinking of paring down, getting rid of a car or your only car, and you need assistance with how to do this plus keep your full-time job.
  • You have always wanted to do some rainwater harvesting, backyard desert gardening, permaculture, and live a little more lightly but you don't know where to begin. We can help get you going.