The Sopris Homes Difference


Sopris Homes, Colorado new home builder and renovation experts

Tighter Construction

We give priority attention to sealing traditional problem areas such as cantilevered floors, house and garage connections, attic passageways and bathtubs, fireplace and exterior walls. Prior to closing, every home is “tightness tested” to Sopris’ – and your – high standards.

Better-Insulated Shell

Every exterior wall is sprayed with superior high-tech insulation (no fiberglass insulation batts here!). Floors above garage ceilings are dense-packed with blown insulation to ensure full coverage, eliminating the chance for outdoor air to bypass insulation as well as reducing outside noise.

High-Efficiency Equipment

The furnaces we install exceed 90 percent efficiency and air conditioners are 13 SEER minimum. Heating and cooling equipment are right-sized according to detailed energy calculations to maximize efficiency, performance and comfort.

Multi-Zone Heating and Cooling

To achieve optimum comfort and temperature consistency, Sopris installs separately controlled heating and cooling equipment on every floor of finished living space.

Custom Duct Work

To ensure a healthier and more energy efficient system, all duct work is specifically engineered for each home plan and all heating and cooling is done through ducts, not building cavities. And as part of our comfort guarantee, we carefully seal every duct and then test for tightness.

Mechanical Ventilation

Sopris’ ventilation system supplies fresh filtered air throughout your home, giving you clean air confidence and superior indoor air quality whether the windows are open or not!

Combustion Safety

To improve the quality of indoor air, all water heaters, furnaces and fireplaces are sealed-combustion, eliminating the risk of pulling dangerous combustion gases down flues and into your home.

Exterior Drainage Plane

Offering a major durability and mold prevention advantage, we install drainage planes to avoid water infiltration. Your home will be covered with a layer of waterproof material behind all siding, stucco and masonry, significantly reducing potential leakage and mold problems from rain and snow.

 

Near Zero and Net Zero Homes

Near Zero and Net Zero Homes

Simply stated, these homes produce nearly, as much or even less energy as they produce. Excess energy that is produced by solar or wind power is sold back to the utility company. You can build or retrofit almost any home to be Net Zero. How much power you need to produce to fulfill your consumption demands depends upon how your home was built in the first place as well as your daily lifestyle.

At Sopris, we believe that by designing and building the very best possible Thermal Envelope for the home from the beginning you are already achieving significant cost savings and efficiencies. Our observations are that most of our new home buyers feel that they are already achieving sufficient savings from their new Sopris home, but we are seeing more and more interest from our Renovation Services Division for remodel projects involving upgrades to home efficiencies including solar power.

 

What you can count on:

  1. An individual and highly personalized building process for your home.
  2. The benefits of custom builder flexibility with volume builder efficiencies.
  3. Unparalleled personalized service and guidance throughout the entire process.
  4. Established communication guidelines that enable us to meet your expectations every step of the way.
  5. Ability to customize your dream home’s exterior and interior design and finishes.
  6. A completely finished home at the time of closing – no punch lists!
  7. One of the most comprehensive 10-Year limited warranties in the industry.
  8. A perfectionist minded team committed to building long-lasting relationships.

 

Quality Assurance


We employ rigorous procedures and tests to ensure the quality of your home every step of the way:

Certified Licensed Engineers design your home structurally from top to bottom.
Engineering inspections and reports are obtained for footings & steel, basement walls & steel, structural framing & roof, damp proof & foundation drains. Well beyond what building code requires.
Detailed written inspection procedures are followed to closely scrutinize all phases of your construction.
Sopris employees, including office staff, walk through each and every home to ensure 100% completeness in every detail at time of closing.

 

Sopris was the first Boulder Area Builder to use:

  • Silent Floor Systems
  • High performance Low-E windows
  • Pre-wire w/high-speed Cat 5 data connections
  • Computer analysis to predict and improve energy efficiency
  • Energy efficient framing techniques