About New England Cedar Homes

New England Cedar Homes is proud to offer a range of the highest quality, both in material and design, and will work with your custom ideas to design a plan for the home of your dreams. Whether you are looking for a cozy vacation home or wish to make a statement with a luxury home from our range, you will receive the attention you deserve. Our full attention!

We can offer you advice and assistance in selection, planning, building, but most of all, enjoying your western red cedar home from New England Cedar Homes. Just as we do!

We can work with you as an owner builder or we can build the home for you.  Each of our homes is custom designed and built, just as you want it.

 

The Sip Panel using FireBoard SIPs achieves an R Rating of 18.

Structural Insulated Panels  are easy to install - walls are usually installed in one day. This significantly saves in labour cost especially in areas with trade shortages.

The skin of the SIP is the external or internal cladding and ready for finishing.

Using structural insulated panels (SIPs) in residential building can easily qualify a home for very high Star Ratings. A SIP house design has an extremely high whole wall R-Value and low levels of air infiltration, reducing the overall loads for heating or air conditioning equipment in the home. In many cases air conditing is not required.

Building with structural insulated panels (SIPs) can cut home energy consumption by up to 50%, making it easy to reach high Star values with house designed with SIPs. 

SIPs provide high density foam insulation consistently and flawlessly, without the voids, gaps, and compression of insulation in stud walls. US based Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) studies show that when whole wall R-Value is measured, SIPs far outperform wood framed walls. By eliminating the loss of heating and cooling energy through gaps in the insulation, SIPs dramatically reduce the amount of energy used to heat and cool a home.

In addition to providing a high level of insulation, SIP homes are significantly more airtight than conventionally wood frame construction. The foam core of a SIP panel functions as a complete air barrier, and working with large panels means there are fewer joints to seal. ORNL evaluations of a SIP test room revealed the SIP room to be 14 times more airtight than an equivalent room with 2x6 construction, sheathing, insulation and drywall.

Air tightness is extremely important when reducing a home’s energy usage. As much as 40 % of a home’s heating and cooling loss is due to air leakage.