Located in Millsboro DE, just a few miles from Lewes and Rehoboth Beach, this is a rare opportunity to live at the beach in the area's first lake-oriented community, offering you the best of both worlds - a peaceful escape with sparkling lakes and a fun, active resort-style setting.
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There are many reasons to build your new home with Schell Brothers, like our culture of happiness.
There are many reasons to build your new home with Schell Brothers, and the one thing that sets us apart the most is our purpose and culture of happiness.
We've chosen to focus on happiness over profit, and it's paying off.
You'll love our streamlined processes and innovative tools, like our Online Design Studio.
Your home will use less than half the energy used by typical existing homes of similar size.
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Our design process provides homeowners with all the tools and resources necessary to make choosing beautiful finishes fun and easy. Learn More
After you purchase a home, our friendly, experienced design consultants will guide you through a gallery of choices to bring your dreams to life. Learn More
This is the exciting part... now you get to choose what goes in your new home!
You will be contacted by our Design Coordinator to schedule your Preview and Selections appointment based on the timeframe that your home will begin construction. During this appointment we will guide you through the personalization of both the inside and the outside of your home.
We offer many choices, so make sure you go over your Optional Choices Guide provided by your Sales Manager and visit the many models in our communities before this appointment so you have a genera l idea of what options are available to you. If you have any questions, feel free to contact your Design Consultant prior to the appointment.
At Schell Brothers, we take pride in our commitment to keeping our customers involved and informed throughout the construction process. In addition to the regularly scheduled meetings prior to, during, and after construction, our Construction Managers will touch base with you frequently to provide updates and answer any questions you may have.
Schell Brothers is known for providing outstanding customer service. While many builders rely solely on their subcontractor to provide post-settlement service, Schell Brothers has an entire Warranty Service department dedicated to assisting our homeowners. Warranty Service Requests can be submitted through our online portal and our team of professional coordinators and technicians will be ready to assist you.
Poor indoor air quality is estimated to cause thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of health problems each year, especially among children and the elderly. Respiratory health problems such as asthma and chronic coughs have often been linked directly to poor indoor air quality.
At Schell Brothers, we take this problem very seriously and have included numerous features and constructions techniques in our homes to ensure a healthy environment for our homeowners and their families.
“Our son has always struggled with asthma. It was refreshing to learn that Schell Brothers goes above and beyond. They care about indoor air quality just as much as we do.”The Winslows Schell Brothers Homeowners
Our efforts have been recognized by the EPA, who honored us with their 2015 Indoor airPLUS Leader Award. We were one of eight home builders across the nation to receive this award, selected from more than 700 builders who have joined the Indoor airPLUS Program.
Most materials we use are GREENGUARD® Certified, which means they've been screened for over 10,000 chemicals. Certified products help create healthier indoor environments.
Research funded by the EPA has found that most homes in the U.S. contain high levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) due to the products used in constructing the homes.
VOCs are emitted by building products such as paint, carpet, adhesives, OSB/plywood, and others. Most will continue to emit VOCs long after installation.
VOCs can lead to adverse health conditions such as eye, nose, and throat irritation; dizziness, headaches, loss of coordination, nausea; central nervous system, liver, and kidney damage; and even cancer.
Minimum efficiency reporting value, commonly known as MERV rating, is a measurement scale designed to rate the effectiveness of air filters. MERV values range from 1 to 16. Higher is more effective.
A typical residential air filter is less than MERV 5 and removes only large particles from the air. Most harmful particles such as bacteria, mold, and allergens are relatively small and can only be removed by more advanced filters.
Schell Brothers homes use MERV 13 filters, which remove almost all the harmful particles in the air. In fact, MERV 13 filters are rated high enough to be used in hospitals.
Instead of BATT insulation, dense pack fiberglass insulation is "blown-in" to fill all the voids in the walls and ceilings of Schell Brothers homes, creating a consistent and more effective thermal and sound barrier.
The blown-in insulation used in Schell Brothers homes is formaldehyde free, non-combustible, non-corrosive, and moisture resistant. That means you get a safer product that resists mold growth to protect your home and the people in it.
Each bag of blown-in insulation contains the equivalent of over 30 recycled bottles, and is verified as a GREENGUARD® certified, low VOC product.
Blown-in insulation used in Schell Brothers homes improves sound attenuation by 4 to 10 points.
Typical interior walls in homes are 1 sheet of 1/2″ drywall on either side of a wood stud frame. Sound Transmission Class (STC) is a rating of how well a building partition attenuates airborne sound. Higher is better.
Even a well insulated home can have uncomfortable drafts when unfiltered outside air enters your house through cracks and openings, and conditioned, filtered inside air leaves. Reducing the amount of air leakage is a cost effective way to create a healthier indoor environment by ensuring air is only able to enter your home through your filtered HVAC system.
We apply a spray foam to joints and other areas of our home’s exterior envelope to prevent unwanted airflow between the outside and inside of the home.
A third party conducts a blower door test on each of our homes to measure the effectiveness of our draft-stopping, allowing us to identify and correct any deficiencies.
Average air exchange rates:
Comparing average air exchange rates:
Air leakage is measured in air exchanges per hour at a pressure difference of 50 Pascals (ACH50). Lower is better.
Very little air leaks through the exterior envelope of Schellter homes, which is great for comfort and energy efficiency, but a healthy indoor environment also needs fresh air.
Our homes include a ventilation system that circulates fresh air into the home at a rate consistent with the home size and sufficient to maintain healthy indoor air quality.
Traditional HVAC systems and thermostats just measure and regulate temperature, which is only part of what makes a home's interior environment comfortable. High humidity can make a home uncomfortable and potentially lead to unhealthy moisture related problems.
Condensation is a major source of moisture and mold within a home. Condensation can be greatly reduced by regulating humidity levels.
Our smart thermostats combined with our variable speed air handlers allow our HVAC system to independently reduce humidity* by cycling down the fan speed to remove more moisture from the air while having a minimal effect on temperature.
* Our HVAC system does not have a humidifier, so it can only decrease humidity levels when the A/C is running.
Schell Brothers homes include an HVAC system that has multiple fan speeds to precisely control the speed and volume of air flow.
This type of system is quieter and makes very little noise when it turns on because it can start with a low fan speed.
A variable speed air handler is also much more effective at removing humidity from the air, which not only improves comfort, but reduces problems caused by moisture such as mold. Some systems can remove as much as 24 gallons of moisture per day from a home!
Keeping humidity in the optimal range indoors helps to control bacteria, viruses, fungi (including mold), allergies, and asthma.
In the last several years, building scientists have realized that traditional vented crawl spaces included in most existing homes are harmful. The moist, warm air found in vented crawls in the summer months creates a perfect environment for mold and bacteria which can infiltrate the living area of the home through HVAC ducts and air leaks in the floor system.
Our crawl spaces have no outside vents, are insulated, and conditioned by the HVAC system, resulting in a healthy environment.
We install whole house dehumidifiers on all non-slab Schell homes. High humidity is uncomfortable, causes damage to interior finishes like hardwood floors and furniture and is a primary contributor to mold growth in the home. We live in a very humid climate and unfortunately running the A/C is not always sufficient to maintain proper humidity levels. A whole house dehumidifier is the most efficient and effective way to ensure safe and comfortable humidity levels year-round in your home.
Most production home builders use panelized walls in their homes because it costs less. Our homes are constructed on-site, because stick-built homes are stronger and more energy efficient, although framing is certainly less expensive and quicker using panels.
Each wall of a stick-built home is constructed as one contiuous and connected structure with overlapping bottom and top plates.
Wall sheathing (the OSB or plywood on the outside of an exterior wall) provides a significant amount of a stick-built home's structural integrity by tying the walls and floor systems together via overlapping sheathing.
A panelized house is comprised of separate 6' to 10' wall sections that are already sheathed. This introduces extra gaps in the sheathing at the end of each wall panel and at the top and bottom of the floor system. These gaps are the precise areas where you need solid overlapping sheathing to provide the "tie-down" strength critical to the structural integrity of the home.
Our combination of new framing techniques maximizes the thermal barrier of exterior walls by increasing insulation and reducing thermal bridging caused by excess wood.
Double top plate in Schellter home. Tying together the entire wall structure with a double top plate increases the strength of the home.
2x6 walls are significantly stronger than 2x4 walls and allow for a lot more insulation, which makes a huge difference in heating and cooling costs. The extra insulation also makes it much quieter inside the home.
Instead of BATT insulation, dense pack fiberglass insulation is "blown-in" to fill all the voids in the walls and ceilings of Schell Brothers homes, creating a consistent and more effective thermal and sound barrier.
The blown-in insulation used in Schell Brothers homes is formaldehyde free, non-combustible, non-corrosive, and moisture resistant. That means you get a safer product that resists mold growth to protect your home and the people in it.
Each bag of blown-in insulation contains the equivalent of over 30 recycled bottles, and is verified as a GREENGUARD® certified, low VOC product.
Blown-in insulation used in Schell Brothers homes improves sound attenuation by 4 to 10 points.
Typical interior walls in homes are 1 sheet of 1/2″ drywall on either side of a wood stud frame. Sound Transmission Class (STC) is a rating of how well a building partition attenuates airborne sound. Higher is better.
Water infiltration can wreak havoc on a home. Not only can water leaks ruin the finishes within your home, they can cause dangerous structural issues due to wood rot. In addition, water in the home causes mold growth which can be harmful and sometimes deadly to the home's inhabitants.
The 4Tress Leak Prevention System (LPS) is a collection of waterproofing and water infiltration prevention features designed to keep the inside of your home water and moisture free.
Schell Brothers homes include an HVAC system that has multiple fan speeds to precisely control the speed and volume of air flow.
This type of system is quieter and makes very little noise when it turns on because it can start with a low fan speed.
A variable speed air handler is also much more effective at removing humidity from the air, which not only improves comfort, but reduces problems caused by moisture such as mold. Some systems can remove as much as 24 gallons of moisture per day from a home!
Keeping humidity in the optimal range indoors helps to control bacteria, viruses, fungi (including mold), allergies, and asthma.
PEX pipes are flexible tubes of cross-linked polyethylene that we use with a manifold in a "home run" plumbing system to provide direct water lines to each faucet.
PEX piping systems have far fewer joints and fittings than traditional PVC or copper pipes, which greatly reduces the potential for leaks. PEX tubing won't pit, scale or corrode and is much less likely than PVC to burst if it freezes.
Typlically homes include a singe-stage furnace that runs at full power any time it is turned on. Schell Brothers homes use a smarter, 2-stage furnace.
A 2-stage furnace is like having two furnaces in one: an energy efficient low-stage furnace for moderately cold days, and a heavy duty, high-stage furnace for very cold days.
A 2-stage furnace typically operates in the low stage most of the time, producing far less combustion noise than a single-stage furnace.
Developed by RESNET®, the Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Index is the industry standard by which a home’s energy efficiency is measured and is the nationally recognized system for inspecting and calculating a home’s energy performance. The lower a home’s HERS score, the more energy efficient it is.
A home build by Schell Brothers averages a score of 49 on the HERS Index, which means it is over 100% more energy efficient and uses 51% less energy than a Standard New Home with a HERS Score of 100*.
An Enerwize home will have energy costs that are less than half of an equivalently sized existing home.
* Source: RESNET®
Our combination of new framing techniques maximizes the thermal barrier of exterior walls by increasing insulation and reducing thermal bridging caused by excess wood.
Raised heel truss in Schellter home. Allows insulation to extend full depth to the edge of the exterior wall.
Standard truss in typical home. Insulation is pinched in corners, which allows heat transfer.
Most production home builders use panelized walls in their homes because it costs less. Our homes are constructed on-site, because stick-built homes are stronger and more energy efficient, although framing is certainly less expensive and quicker using panels.
Panelized homes introduce extra studs into the exterior walls because there are two studs next to each other where panels meet. Wood is a poor insulator so extra studs means extra energy loss through the walls.
In addition, small gaps between studs, walls, and floor systems are a common source of air infiltration. In a stick-built home, wall sheathing (the OSB or plywood on the outside of an exterior wall) covers these gaps and inhibits the air leak. With a panelized home, there is no sheathing to cover these gaps, just house wrap or tape which do little to prevent air infiltration in these areas.
2x6 walls are significantly stronger than 2x4 walls and allow for a lot more insulation, which makes a huge difference in heating and cooling costs. The extra insulation also makes it much quieter inside the home.
Insulation’s primary purpose is to reduce heat transfer. BATT insulation, often still used in new homes, loses its effectiveness when cut or compressed to accommodate electric boxes, wires, light fixtures, and other objects in walls and ceilings.
Instead of BATT insulation, dense pack fiberglass insulation is "blown-in" to fill all the voids in the walls and ceilings of Schell Brothers homes, creating a consistent and more effective thermal and sound barrier.
Blown-in insulation achieves higher R-values than BATT insulation of the same thickness.
R-value is the measure of insulation’s thermal resistance, or its ability to resist the flow of heat. Higher is better.
Even a well insulated home can have high energy bills and uncomfortable drafts if the home is not properly draft-stopped. Many homes have the air leakage equivalent of an open window, even though all the windows are closed.
Conditioning air that is lost through leakage accounts for 25% - 40% of the energy used for heating/cooling in a typical home.
We apply a spray foam to joints and other areas of our home’s exterior envelope to prevent unwanted airflow between the outside and inside of the home.
A third party conducts a blower door test on each of our homes to measure the effectiveness of our draft-stopping, allowing us to identify and correct any deficiencies.
Average air exchange rates:
Comparing average air exchange rates:
Air leakage is measured in air exchanges per hour at a pressure difference of 50 Pascals (ACH50). Lower is better.
A variable speed system with electronic communicating motor (ECM) technology is more energy efficient as most times of the year the air handler fan will only need to run at low speeds.
A variable speed air handler is also much more effective at removing humidity from the air, which not only improves comfort, but reduces problems caused by moisture such as mold. Some systems can remove as much as 24 gallons of moisture per day from a home!
Power is measured in Watts. Lower is better.
Insulating and cooling the home's crawl space creates a thermal connection to the ground and essentially eliminates the majority of heat loss through the floor system, not to mention eliminating the discomfort caused by cold floors in the winter.
A vented crawl space, on the other hand, makes the entire home a conditioned island surrounded by unconditioned air on all sides.
Our crawl spaces have no outside vents, are insulated, and conditioned by the HVAC system.
Proper duct sealing can greatly reduce or eliminate this source of energy loss. Locating the ductwork within conditioned space further increases the efficiency by reducing the heat transfer through the duct walls.
Our ductwork is located predominantly within conditioned space and all the seams are sealed with tape and mastic to ensure little to no air leakage.
To ensure proper duct sealing, all Schellter homes receive a 3rd party Duct Blaster Test which measures the amount of air leakage in the duct system so that any deficiencies can be identified and corrected prior to installing drywall.
A traditional tank water heater uses a tremendous amount of energy because it is constantly running.
Schell Brothers homes feature a tankless water heater that only runs "on demand" when hot water is needed. It's also about the size of a briefcase, so it takes up a lot less space. Plus it never runs out of hot water, and will last about twice as long, typically up to 20 years.
Tankless water heater vs. traditional:
PEX pipes are flexible tubes of cross-linked polyethylene that we use with a manifold in a "home run" plumbing system to provide direct water lines to each faucet.
PEX piping systems have far fewer joints and fittings than traditional PVC or copper pipes, which greatly reduces the potential for leaks. PEX tubing won't pit, scale or corrode and is much less likely than PVC to burst if it freezes.
The windows in a home can be a major source of heat and cooling loss. Many builders reduce the construction cost and energy loss by simply including very few windows in their homes.
We recognize that more natural light makes a home feel much better, so we don’t skimp on quantity or quality of the windows in our homes. To prevent energy loss while including more windows, our provider created a brand new window specifically designed to meet the ultra energy efficient specs we insisted on.
Our windows also minimize the transfer of ultraviolet light, protecting your funiture and finishes from fading.
U-value measures the rate of non-solar heat loss or gain through a window, including the loss or gain due to the window’s frame, glass, seals and spacers. Lower is better.
Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) is the fraction of incident solar radiation admitted through a window, both directly transmitted and absorbed and subsequently released inward. Lower is better.
Typically homes include a singe-stage furnace that runs at full power any time it is turned on. Schell Brothers homes use a smarter, 2-stage furnace.
A 2-stage furnace is like having two furnaces in one: an energy efficient low-stage furnace for moderately cold days, and a heavy duty, high-stage furnace for very cold days.
A 2-stage furnace typically operates in the low stage most of the time, producing far less combustion noise than a single-stage furnace.
The efficiency of air conditioners is often rated by the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER). The higher the SEER number, the more energy efficient the A/C unit is.
We use a 17 SEER A/C unit which saves you money by using less energy to cool your home.
All else being equal, a 14 SEER A/C unit provided in most new homes will use approximately 18% more energy than a 17 SEER unit, and a 10 SEER A/C unit found in most existing homes will use about 59% more energy than a 17 SEER unit.
More efficient A/C units consume less energy.
Seasonal Energy Efficiency Rating (SEER) is an indicator of efficiency and measures the ratio of electricity input (kW) to BTU output.
