Episode 025 1995 - 96 Season

| Concrete Block Retaining Wall | Home Security Checkup | Handy Hands | Internet Homepage | Replacing A Plug | Mateflex Flooring | The People Behind the Loan | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #025.


YNH Internet Homepage

Michael Holigan: We get a lot of mail each week on Your New House. A lot of people telling us what they think would help the show. Some people asking about things that we've already done on the show. Now, as you can tell, with this much mail, it's going to take a while to get to all of it and answer everyone's questions. One way that we can do it much quicker is by our Internet Home Page.

Now for those of you who don't know what the Internet is, it's a collection of computers that are all networked together. People have what's called a Home Page or basically an electronic magazine on this network and you can find a lot of information about the program.

Let's say that you saw a feature that you liked. You can go to About the House, hit it, and it'll bring up the transcripts from the different features. Let's say that you wanted to see one on Air Infiltration. You just find that title, hit it and now you've got the exact transcripts of what we said on the shows. All you have to do is hit back, and we'll go back to our title page. If you want the monthly newsletter, but you don't want to wait for it to come through the normal mail route, just hit Monthly Newsletter, and you'll find our most current newsletter right there, as well as the back issues. Scan down, find our articles and columns.

When you get back to the main page, you can also check out TV station listings. In case your moving or you don't know what time it'll be on in your area, when you get to our location map, just pick the state that you want, find the area that your TV signal comes from, then you can find the station, the network affiliation, and what time.

If you'd like information about mortgages, just highlight Mortgage Information and it'll give you a little bit about the different types of mortgages that are available and how to get a mortgage, plus, there's financial calculators. Let's take a look at doing a refinance. Hit our refinance calculator. Let's put in our current amount of our loan as $150,000; let's choose an interest rate, let's say we're currently at 9%, 30 year mortgage. Our proposed mortgage, let's say we still have a balance of $150,000 at our current interest rate though, we'll drop down to 7%, we come over here and hit calculate. Our original mortgage, our principle and interest should be $1,207. Under the new mortgage, it should be $997.50, so we have a savings of $210.00 per month.

If you'd like to take a look for floor plans, just come over and hit the floor plan button, and you have a way to choose what type of home you'd like; put in the specifics that you'd like on your home. Say three bedrooms are all right, let's make it a two story, baths, two to two and half would be fine. Total square footage, let's say 1,500 to 2,000 square feet. And then you just press Find Houses, and it'll show us how many meet that criteria; a large selection to choose from. Go down our graph a little bit, on square footage, let's look at one that's 1,711 square foot. You just highlight it and while it's pulling up the elevation, you can scan down and read about the house, what's available, and it's also doing a floor plan at the same time. Now once this is finished pulling it up, you can go ahead and print it out on your printer and have a nice copy that you can change or make modifications to, or take to an architect to design your own home.

Plus, if you need books or video tapes, or some product to help you on designing your house, or remodeling the house that you're in, just hit New Products. There's several books and video series that we have available, plus software to help make design easier, 3-D Kitchen, Garden Encyclopedias, 3-D Landscapes, 3-D Decks, Home Repair Encyclopedias, Home Buyer Guides, plus Wiring Instructions. For professionals we also do have ArchiCAD 3-D software. And, if you'd like to send us mail on the Internet, you can just hit comments@yournewhouse.com and we'll get them in a matter of minutes. They're very easy for us to answer and just mail it right back and you don't have to wait on the post office.

For those of you who do not have access to the Internet, or are paying too much, you can call Netcom at 1-800-295-3004 and ask for the Your New House Internet Special. They'll waive the $25.00 activation charge and it's only $19.95 a month for unlimited of access to the Internet. Plus your first month is only $5.00. Plus, they are adding additional services to better their internet offering such as a daily new feed via email.

(NOTE: The YNH Homepage has changed since this episode aired. For floor plans now you select NewHome Search. For product information select the Product and Service Guide)

| Concrete Block Retaining Wall | Home Security Checkup | Handy Hands | Internet Homepage | Replacing A Plug | Mateflex Flooring | The People Behind the Loan | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #025.