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These days, homeowners are trying to keep their impact on the environment as low as possible. From installing wind- or solar-powered energy systems to recycling to buying organic produce, there are several ways families can reduce their overall carbon footprint. And, when it comes to conserving water, few changes are as effective as using low flow shower heads in your home.
At Southland, our Georgia on your land home builders specialize in building eco-friendly homes using the latest in energy-saving products and sustainable building materials. Here are some of the benefits of using low flow shower heads in your new home.
If your home has old fashioned shower heads installed, then odds are they're pumping out between five and eight gallons of water every single minute. By swapping out your old shower head and installing a low flow model instead, you'll save anywhere from three to six gallons of water for every minute the shower is in use. Today's low flow shower heads can realistically reduce your home's water consumption by 40% or more!
Many people already expect low flow shower heads to help save on water consumption, but what many are surprised to learn is that they also help save on the energy resources used to heat the water too, such as gas and electric. In most cases, making the change to low flow shower heads can save up to $50 annually on your water heater's energy consumption.
Whenever your hot water heater heats up the water within it, it produces carbon dioxide emissions that exit your home via ductwork and enter the atmosphere. Since the low flow shower heads help reduce your water heating needs, it automatically reduces the amount of carbon dioxide your home produces.
Despite all of the energy-saving benefits of using low flow shower heads, many homeowners remain wary of making the change because they think they'll suffer from poor water pressure. And, while this may have been true when they were first introduced to the market several years ago, today's low flow shower heads are equipped with special apertures that enable them produce excellent water pressure. The apertures use air to help boost the strength and speed of the water exiting the shower head, thus making it easy to make the change with very little reduction in water pressure quality.
Although high quality low flow shower heads can be more expensive than other models, they will usually provide an energy cost savings that will basically pay for the cost of the shower head within a year or less.
If you're relocating to Georgia and you want to have a custom, eco-friendly home designed just for your family and built on a piece of property that you have purchased, Southland Custom Homes can help. We're one of the top Georgia on your land home builders and we can design and build you the perfect home for you and your family.
With over 100 floorplans to choose from and an array of top-of-the-line interior appointments, Southland Custom Homes provides a huge selection of plan options and custom features. Southland Custom Homes will work with new homebuyers to alter specific floorplans so that the finished project is exactly what the buyer wants. If you are looking for a trusted on-your-lot Georgia home builder, then Southland Custom Homes will be sure to meet and exceed all of your expectations.
Southland Custom Homes is one of the premier Georgia on-your-land builders. We have model showrooms located in Macon (3956 Bloomfield Village Drive, Macon, GA 31206), Dawsonville (837 GA 400 S, Dawsonville, GA 30534), and Marietta (265 N. Fulton PKWY, Marietta, GA 30062). Stop by today to see all that Southland has to offer!
Southland Custom Homes builds in the following locations:
| Baldwin County Banks County Barrow County Bartow County Bibb County Bleckley County Butts County Carroll County Cherokee County Clarke County Clayton County Cobb County Coweta County Crawford County Dawson County DeKalb County |
Dooly County Douglas County Fannin County Fayette County Floyd County Forsyth County Fulton County Gilmer County Gordon County Greene County Gwinnett County Habersham County Hall County Hancock County Haralson County Hart County |
Heard County Henry County Jackson County Jasper County Jones County Lamar County Lumpkin County Macon County Madison County Meriwether County Monroe County Morgan County Newton County Oconee County Oglethorpe County Paulding County |
Peach County Pickens County Pike County Polk County Pulaski County Putnam County Rockdale County Stephens County Talbot County Taylor County Twiggs County Union County Upson County Walton County White County Wilkinson County |
We also build in the following cities in Georgia:
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Acworth Alpharetta Athens Athens-Clarke Atlanta Barrow Bartow Belvedere Belvedere Park Brookhaven Butts Calhoun Canton Carroll Carrollton Cartersville Cherokee |
Cobb College Park Coweta Cumming Dawsonville Decatur Dekalb Douglas Dublin Douglasville Dunwoody Duluth East Point Ellijay Fayette Forest Park Forest |
Forsyth Gainesville Grantville Griffin Gwinnett Hall Henry Hinesville Hogansville Jasper John's Creek Kennesaw LaGrange Lake Allatoona Lake Blue Ridge Lake Chatuge Lake Hartwell |
Lake Jackson Lake Lanier Lake Nottely Lake Oconee Lawrenceville Lone Oak Mableton Macon Marietta McDonough Milledgeville Milton Newnan Newton North Atlanta North Druid Hills The North Georgia mountains |
Paulding Peachtree City Redan Rockdale Rome Roswell Sandy Springs Smyrna Snellville Spalding Stone Mountain Sugar Hill Tucker Union City Washington Winder |
