UpRight Homes is committed to building YOUR home the RIGHT way: specifically for the climate of the Houston Texas Gulf Coast Region.

UpRight Homes EXCEED all local building and energy codes. We blend the art of designing beautiful timeless homes, with science and technology to create a highly energy-efficient and healthy new home. UpRight Homes are original, one-of-a-kind, unique homes with high-end finishes, and smart, money-saving energy-efficient standards. In the greater Houston TX Gulf Coast area, our typical/most common conditions include intense heat, and very high humidity. Our more extreme conditions may include flooding with the possibility of extreme winds, tornadoes and/or hurricanes. When a home is built RIGHT, it is built to properly combat the typical everyday conditions AND the more extreme conditions. UpRight Homes are designed to be healthy, strong, dry homes that “breathe” properly, yet keep out moisture and air-infiltration with a complete weatherization package. Currently most of the homes being built in the greater Houston Texas Gulf Coast Region are NOT properly engineered, designed, or built to deter mold growth, maintain healthy indoor air quality, maximize energy savings, or withstand potentially high wind loads, because they are NOT built to combat the VERY specific elements of the Texas Gulf Coast region. UpRight Homes goes the extra step so YOU have peace-of-mind and knowing YOUR home is built the RIGHT way with smart, responsible, “Green-building” construction practices that are PROVEN to SAVE YOU MONEY, save energy, improve the environment and perform well in our hot, humid Texas Gulf Coast climate.

With UpRight Homes, YOU choose all the features of your new home, but some of our typical artistic design FINISHES may include the following:

• Fully customized kitchen design with furniture-quality stained wood cabinetry
• Custom accent lighting and commercial quality appliances
• Fully customized master bath design with custom cabinetry
• Large walk-in closets with closet organizing systems, shelves, and cabinets
• Granite countertops in kitchen and baths
• Large frameless walk-in customized dual-head “rain” showers
• Sunken whirlpool tubs
• Travertine, slate, tile, wood and stained-concrete floors
• Full stereo surround-sound and “Hi-Def.” wiring
• High speed internet, home office, with CAT 5 wiring
• ”Secret rooms” appearing as built-in bookshelves or stairways
• Custom wood and stone fireplace mantles
• Custom wood and wrought iron stair spindles and balusters
• Custom crown molding, trim, and window casings
• Arched openings with rounded sheetrock corners
• Fully monitored security systems
• Built-in wall safes
• T.V. niches in master-bathroom
• Laundry work area
• Laundry chute
• Accent rope lighting
• Keyless entry door locks
• Faux paint finishes
• Art Niches
• Media Rooms
• Garage organizing cabinets and workbenches
• Epoxy coated garage floor finishes
• Outdoor kitchens
• Custom pools, and more… (keep reading to see what’s “behind the walls” of your new home)

Beyond the finishes and behind the walls, the components of the home most people never see, is where UpRight Homes takes pride in building better quality homes that EXCEED all local building and energy codes. Some of the high-quality construction practices we may employ are as follows:

• Fully engineered foundations on compaction tested pad sites
• Fully engineered frame, win-load resistance, storm-water drainage and detention plans
• “ENERGY-STAR” certified homes
• Highly Efficient 14 SEER, zoned A.C. system
• Humidistat to remove excess humidity and moisture, to keep your home healthy and DRY
• Filtered outdoor FRESH air SUPPLY for healthy indoor air quality
• ”Radiant Barrier” plywood roof decking (blocks up to 97% of the heat radiating from the sun)
• Plywood or “windstorm rated sheathing” panels (NOT insulated foam board) around the exterior of your entire home (behind brick, stone, stucco, or siding areas) to maximize the overall strength and durability of the home, to help keep a much drier wall cavity and home, help minimize settlement, and maximize wind load and lift resistance common in the Texas Gulf Coast Region. (Unlike many builders in the greater Houston, Texas Gulf Coast Region, UpRight Homes does NOT encourage the use of “foam insulated” type exterior sheathing panels in the greater Gulf Coast Region for maintaining healthy indoor air quality, deterring mold growth inside the wall cavity in this humid enviornment, or for withstanding potentially high wind loads).  
• Additional frame enhancements include “shear walls”, “mid-span” blocking between the studs on all exterior walls, “let-in” bracing, galvanized Simpson strong-tie foundation anchors, heavy-duty hurricane-straps, engineered beams, trusses headers, and steel I-beams where necessary
• Hurricane safe rooms disguised as closets to be used as a safety room, panic room, valuables vault or storm shelter
• 2x6 walls framed with termite resistant lumber
• Decked attic space
• DuPont Tyvek HomeWrap complete weatherization systems
• R-38 formaldehyde free, fiberglass insulation
• Mold, mildew, and water resistant, high strength sheetrock
• Full Hurricane straps
• High performance double payne, energy-efficient, “hurricane resistant” storm and security windows 
• High performance money and energy saving Solar Screens and Roll-a-way Solar Shades (THE most efficient “Window Treatment” on the market today) provided by: www.HoustonSolarScreensAndShades.com
• Tank-less, energy-efficient hot water heaters with on-demand endless hot water supply
• Complete Hardi-plank exterior trim with 50 year warranty (non brick, stone or stucco areas)
• Heavy-duty wood and decorative wrought iron exterior doors with reinforced “kick guards”, rot resistant door jambs
• ”Bump key” resistant deadbolts for maximum security
• Termite blockers at foundation
• Full house soft water treatment systems for clean, healthy, safe water
• Fire protection sprinkler systems
• Whole house surge protectors
• Generator ready electrical main panels
• Continuous soffit and ridge vents for proper attic ventilation and heat dissipation
• ”Skin vented” exterior walls
• Air-tight, insulated recess can lighting
• Compact fluorescent light bulbs for energy-saving and to minimize indoor heat gains
• ENERGY-STAR Certified appliances
• Wind resistant roofing material with AT LEAST a 30 year rated life span
• Full underground drainage and detention systems to deter flooding
• Professionally designed custom organic landscaping with cedar mulch to help keep mosquitoes, bugs and insects away
• Water-conserving irrigation systems
• And more…

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