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Problem: Drought, water conservation, brown lawns Solution: The HydroLogic Digital Water Timer

This smart-watering solution from Melnor offers home owners flexibility and control over their lawn maintenance schedule. The timer insures that watering is regular, and it also prevents wasting water with a handy rain-delay feature, which easily allows for suspension of watering for a day or two (or even a week) when precipitation is in the forecast.

Other features: A Manual mode allows homeowners to turn on the water whenever they need it. Set up to four individual start times to schedule watering exactly when you want. Water on specific days of the week or every few days.

Easy-to-read large LCD displays information clearly. Simple to use Manual Option lets you easily access the faucet whenever you need to wash the car or spray off the deck.

Melnor, founded in 1946, backs the product with a seven-year limited warranty. Melnor.com

4Problem: Code compliance, vapor infiltration Solution: Huber Engineered Woods ZIP System Rainscreen

Here’s the newest product option in the ever-evolving ZIP System Building Enclosures portfolio of products. Available where ZIP System products are sold, the Rainscreen (the black barrier photographed here) helps builders streamline their approaches to high-performance water, air, vapor and thermal management.

Engineered to help meet new code-required 3/16” air gap requirements in stucco and adhered stone assemblies, ZIP System Rainscreen consists of a rigid drainage mat covered by a heavy-duty fabric that has been approved as a secondary water-resistive barrier, which is also required for “absorptive” or “reservoir” cladding assemblies.

Combining the high compression strength of the 1/4” drainage mat with the 5-7-perm WRB layer strikes an excellent balance of durability and effective moisture management for various cladding systems. Huberwood.com

4Problem: Indoor air quality control

Solution: Overture Automated Indoor Air Quality System by Broan-NuTone

Indoor air can be up to five times more polluted than the air outside. For this, the engineers at Broan-NuTone have created Overture, described as the only fully-integrated indoor air quality system that links the home’s ventilation system by using three simple modules: a room sensor, wall control and a smart plug, all three working together.

With the system, a ‘Best Indoor Product” award-winner at IBS, home owners can monitor, measure and manage their indoor air quality. Sophisticated sensor technology provides live detection of air pollutants and a cloud-based system automatically turns on your connected home ventilation system to clear the pollution and provide fresh, clean air to the home. There’s No external hub or additional equipment are needed to get Overture up and running with the Broan-NuTone ventilation systems in the home. Broan-nutone.com