Building Climate
Resilient Homes

Building Climate Resilient Homes

Stay ahead of severe weather with climate resilient homes. The Superior Standby package helps protect your home with automatic propane deliveries for standby generators.

Power outages caused by severe storms and extreme weather events can leave households vulnerable, disrupting daily life and compromising safety. One way to bolster your home’s resilience and ensure continuous power is by integrating climate-resilient solutions such as propane-powered  standby generators.  Resilient homes can help you weather any storm, ensuring your comfort and safety year-round.

What is a Resilient Home?

A resilient home is specifically designed and constructed to endure and quickly recover from adverse events and extreme weather conditions, such as storms, high winds, and power outages. They incorporate various features and systems to maintain safety, comfort, and operational functionality during and after unexpected outages caused by severe weather, power surges, or other unforeseen events.

Critical systems, such as heating, cooling, and electrical power, remain operational even when external conditions are unfavorable, often through the use of backup power solutions like propane standby generators.

By integrating these measures, homes can adapt to and bounce back from environmental challenges, providing peace of mind and safeguarding the well-being of their occupants amidst the growing threat of extreme weather.

Building a Climate Resilient Home

The foundation of a climate resilient home lies in its structural integrity, incorporating materials and construction methods designed to resist damage from high winds, heavy rains, and floods. This includes features like reinforced roofing, stormproof windows, and elevated foundations to mitigate flood risks.

Reliable backup power solutions, such as propane-powered standby generators, help maintain critical systems like heating, cooling, and electrical power during outages. This helps keep most essential systems operational, reducing the risk of disruption to daily life. Superior Propane offers dependable propane supply to help keep your standby generator ready when you need it most.

Another aspect of building a climate resilient home is incorporating fire-resistant materials, especially in areas prone to wildfires. Using non-combustible cladding and roofing materials can drastically reduce the risk of fire damage. Climate adaptability - preparing for temperature extremes and environmental changes – is also important. Effective insulation, ventilation systems, and energy-efficient appliances help maintain a comfortable living environment regardless of external conditions.

Automation and smart home technologies can also contribute to home resilience. Automated systems for managing fuel supplies, water levels, and temperature controls can quickly respond to changing conditions, reducing the need for manual intervention and enabling quicker recovery from adverse events.

Preparing for Severe Weather and Power Outages

Severe events like storms, blizzards, extreme cold, or unexpected power outages can disrupt daily life and threaten the safety and well-being of your household. Being proactive in preparing for these disruptions is essential to promoting home resilience and minimizing the impact of outages, regardless of their cause. Propane-powered solutions, such as standby generators, can keep critical systems running, ensuring your home stays comfortable and safe even when the grid goes down.

Proactive Planning - The first step in preparing for emergencies is to develop a comprehensive emergency plan. This includes identifying safe areas in your home, preparing an emergency kit stocked with essentials such as food, water, medications, and first-aid supplies, and making sure that all family members are informed and know what to do in case of an emergency.

Backup Power Solutions - A critical component of any emergency preparedness plan is having a reliable backup power solution. Power outages can last hours or even days, so having an alternative power source to keep essential systems running can protect your home.

Regular Maintenance - It's important that all systems, including your generator, are regularly maintained and tested. This includes checking connections, fuel supplies, and functionality.

Insulation and Home Improvements - Enhance your home’s resilience by making structural improvements. Proper insulation, stormproof windows and doors, and reinforced roofing can significantly reduce the impact of high winds and freezing temperatures, maintaining the indoor environment of your home while reducing energy consumption.

Stay Informed - Stay updated on weather forecasts and alerts from reliable sources like the National Weather Service. This provides valuable lead time to prepare and activate your emergency plan. Check here for propane safety precautions.

Affordable Resilience with Superior Standby Power

The Superior Standby package offers a backup power solution designed to enhance the resilience of homes equipped with a permanently installed propane generator. This package provides customers with access to a fuel supply to maintain power for the most essential home functions during power outages and extreme weather events.

The Superior Standby package includes the propane tank rental, a wireless tank level monitoring sensor, and automatic fuel deliveries. Using automation and proactive monitoring, Superior Propane’s service team monitors your propane levels and automatically schedules refills, helping to maintain a consistent fuel supply so that you can be prepared before severe weather strikes. The Superior Standby package supports homes with permanently installed power generators.

Don’t wait until the next storm hits to realize the importance of home resilience. Sign up for the Superior Standby package today and benefit from a reliable, automated propane supply for your backup power solution.