Throughout the years, I have gathered many tools for my proverbial toolbelt, and one that I have had since almost the beginning is blower door testing. Blower door tests have been intertwined with energy-efficient building science since the 80s, and it has become impossible to talk about energy-efficient homes without mentioning them. They have been so important for our growth as a business that we now have our own state-of-the-art blower door that we can utilize at any point in any of our builds.

Thank you to everyone that participated in the Ask Me Anything event that we had on our Facebook and Instagram last Thursday!

Here are the questions, along with my answers. Enjoy!

-Charlie

Let’s take another trip down memory lane, shall we?

In the early 2000’s Denise and I had been using our office space in our home to run our growing business. As we took on more projects and expanded our team, we knew it was time to find a space that could grow with us and reflect what we stand for. We looked around and waited until the perfect place came on the market — a sweet little house in downtown Boulder Junction that was previously a retail store. It became ours on December 31st 2009.

Hello there! I’m Charlie — the founder of Sauter Builders. I started Sauter Builders with my wife back in 1995 after completing our family home. By that time we had two beautiful children, and we used our family dining room table as the “office.” It was a one-man-show on the job sites back in those days, until I was fortunate enough to hire my first employee in 1998.