HOST: Welcome to the International Builders' Show and Tamarack Technologies.
WOM.: Well, I wanted to say first that it's just a pleasure to be with you because we support Pro -- your website, and IBS is just a wonderful show. So I want to thank you on behalf of our company being here.
HOST: Well, thank you guys.
REP: You know, Tamarack Technologies has been green for a long time. We're a US manufacturer of ventilation products. They're innovative technology. Our whole-house cooler -- Some people want to call it -- Some folks want to call it an attic fan. We're not an attic fan. (HOST: Right.) What we do is we just, you know, you install it very easily on the top floor of your home, it exhausts into the attic, and the hot, that thermal blanket leaves and the cool air comes in. And no matter what geographical area you're in, depending on what time of year--you even use it with your air conditioner or in place of--and it saves lots of money for the homeowner.
HOST: One thing I like, as a builder--and going through green-building guidelines, and our houses tend to get tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter, and they need air. You've got to have air to have a healthy house. And that's one of the things your product lets us do is get some airflow in there and keep it nice and healthy.
REP: And that's exactly true. I mean, can you imagine if you didn't breathe in and out? Just look at yourself as being a house. (HOST: [LAUGHS]) If you were so tight that you didn't breathe -- and of course, we think that tight is good. But there are alternatives to not using your air conditioner to make sure that it's -- that your home is comfortable and that you're not pa-- -- (HOST: And I agree.) And I agree, too.
And -- And -- And we were green long before green came into being. We've been located in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts for nineteen years, and you know like the overnight Hollywood star sensation. It stars for forty years. (HOST: [LAUGHS]) And um -- we've had that niche, and we're proud of our reputation, and we do help that home breathe. We adhere to the ASRAY Sixty-Two-Two on some of our products. We carry about seven products, and we like being the leaders in that. We're a small manufacturer, as I said. We have about eighteen folks that have steady employment in Massachusetts. But when you look at some of the things that change like when we talk about our wrap -- This --
HOST: Yeah, let's talk about this product here.
REP: We call this the wrap. It's a return-air pathway. (HOST: Okay.) And uh four or five years ago, Florida legislators said, we need to mandate a program that's -- a product and legislation that's going to help the home breathe for indoor air quality. (HOST: Right. Very good.) So, if you don't have return air -- So, I came back to um, to our corporate and back in our factory and took our Zeenon which we had.
And it's nothing more than -- You know when you were a kid and you were at your grandmother's house? (HOST: Uh-huh.) And you could look down through the floor and see what was going on? (HOST: Oh, yeah.) Well, this is exactly the same thing. We usually install it, you know, above the doorway, and um -- But we took it a step further. What we did is we put in this honeycomb. (HOST: Right.)
And -- And the honeycomb is going to give the people in that room a sense of privacy -- (HOST: Right.) -- to -- for heat and for sound and for light -- I'm sorry -- for light and for sound. If you notice, it gets a little bit quieter. So, in that -- and that's mandated by the state of Florida. And there are more states that are following that.
HOST: Yeah, I think Kentucky is following into that pathway, too, where every room needs to have a return air.
REP: Yes.
HOST: Okay. And we have one more we want to look at here?
REP: Well, this is a -- Believe it or not, this is a damper.
HOST: Oh, okay.
REP: This is a takeback draft damper. No mechanicals. Now, you usually see a damper with a butterfly in there. (HOST: Exactly.) Airflow comes through.
HOST: If it starts coming back --
REP: Well, if the wind blows --
HOST: Uh-huh -- It shuts it down.
REP: Shuts it down. And this is such a unique product. And here again, this fabric is um made from the same fabric that hot-air balloons, so -- I have all the standards on it on an MSDS sheet as to what this fabric is so that it's nonflammable.
HOST: And if -- And if people want more information about your company and your products, what's your website?
REP: Thank you. It's not Tamarack Technologies, it's Tamtech.
HOST: Tamtech -- T-A-M-T-E-C-H --
REP: With the Boston accent.)
HOST: LAUGHS.
REP: Tamtech. Yes.
HOST: Well, great. It's glad to see that you were green before green was cool. And we -- as builders, we can rely on your technologies to help us go that extra mile and get greener as we build.
REP: It's -- it's true. And the other thing that's important is Tamarack Technologies supports Homes for Our Troops -- (HOST: Great.) They're in Massachusetts, too. And we've just finished building a home in Plymouth that -- We're trying to demythify--not demystify--but demythify the myth that green is not only affordable, but it's profitable.
It's profitable, too, for the building professionals, and it's profitable for the homeowners. Like it -- You know, if -- if you -- if you come to our website, go to the factsheet. What you'll see is if you're going to save three-thousand dollars in six months if you have central air and using our whole-house cooler. (HOST: Right.) So -- So, it's a pleasure to be here with you, and I can't thank you enough.
HOST: Thank you very much.
REP: Okay, have a nice day.
HOST: Great information.
REP: Thank you. [END]
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