USA Today profiles ultra-green Ann Arbor home
Matt and Kelly Grocoff have gone from gathering local publicity to national publicity for their work to turn their house into the greenest in Michigan.Excerpt:Matt Grocoff has an ambitious goal. He aims to make his 110-year-old Victorian in Ann Arbor, Mich., produce more energy than it uses.That’s no easy task, considering how leaky the 3-bedroom house was when he and his wife, Kelly, bought it in the fall of 2006 and began restoration. “You could stick a spatula through the window,” he recalls. There was also asbestos siding, lead paint, zero insulation and a half-century old furnace.Yet Grocoff is game. As a contributing writer to Old House Web and host of greenovation.TV, he’s been studying green building for years.Read the rest of the story here.
Matt and Kelly Grocoff have gone from gathering local publicity to national publicity for their work to turn their house into the greenest in Michigan.
Excerpt:
Matt Grocoff has an ambitious goal. He aims to make his 110-year-old Victorian in Ann Arbor, Mich., produce more energy than it uses.
That’s no easy task, considering how leaky the 3-bedroom house was when he and his wife, Kelly, bought it in the fall of 2006 and began restoration. “You could stick a spatula through the window,” he recalls. There was also asbestos siding, lead paint, zero insulation and a half-century old furnace.
Yet Grocoff is game. As a contributing writer to Old House Web and host of greenovation.TV, he’s been studying green building for years.
Read the rest of the story here.
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