Eco-Pimping

A friend asked what we used to side the house, and the answer is Tegola Prestige Compact tiles. They are foil-covered asphalt bitumen tiles and allow you to have the beauty of copper tiles at a much more affordable price point, with less worry about people coming in the middle of the night to de-clad your house for some dough, because it would take a dedicated looter to peel the copper foil off these puppies.

My only regret is that we didn't incorporate some of these:

If only I had known!! Then I could have added another $20,000 we can't afford on a technology that no one here knows how to install because everything's in metric (and Italian) to our project! Such a missed opportunity. Next time, though, for sure!

But for all of you who are going to buy one of these:

...then did you notice above how these fabulous Tegola photovoltaic tiles come in GOLD?! And if you're going to eco-pimp your ride, shouldn't you eco-pimp your house? (I feel a new HGTV show coming on). I think these guys are totally in the market for some gold photovoltaic tiles to go with their hybrid Escalade: