I was on a radio show this evening called Burning Down the House in Williamsburg with Joe from Fine Lumber and Hector a furniture maker. We talked about wood, specifically salvaged wood. We started around 18 minutes into the show. I started around 25 minutes into it. Check it out here
I am looking for some salvaged kitchens in Brooklyn without much luck. So I do a google search for “Brooklyn Salvaged Kitchens” and our site EcoBrooklyn.com comes up first and second in the list. Google has a sense of humor.
Here is a great run down of wood types by a master carpenter, Stan Pike. Check out that page. It is cool. I found the site while researching Black Locust, an underused wood in the US. It is considered a weed pretty much so grows in abundance. It is one of the hardest woods around …
We salvaged this floor that had dark purple paint on it and it turned out to give this amazing rainbow of colors! Read on. We put it in the bathroom. Then we put Smart Strip paint remover (from Peelaway) over it to get the paint off. We could have sanding the paint off. But our …
We have built a pergola on the green show house for solar pv and thermal. This raises it above the green roof. Green Architect Roxanne Ryce-Paul sketched up the drawings for it: It looks really great. Eco Brooklyn green builder and project manager Jack Watson built it with his crew.
Reclaimed Roofs has a new list of inventory. If you want a great roof they are the ones. Here is their list.
An LED driver is a self-contained power supply that has outputs matched to the electrical characteristics of your LED or array of LEDs. There are currently no industry standards, so understanding the electrical characteristics of your LED or array is critical in selecting or designing a driver circuit. Drivers should be current-regulated (deliver a consistent …
As a Brooklyn green contractor we actually generate more garbage than a non-green contractor! More garbage!? You ask. The truth is yes. Bag for bag we cart off more garbage from our sites than non-green job sites. But how could this be?! The reason for this is that we BRING ON a lot more ‘garbage” …
As a green contractor in Brooklyn we feel very fortunate. The New York area is the land of plenty if you are not averse to jumping into a dumpster. We find all the flooring we need for our customers in dumpsters. Salvaged doors, bricks, sheet rock, studs, metal beams, and wood joists are all available …
Being a Green Construction company in Brooklyn, NY we like to recycle, reuse and re-purpose materials. Electronics are no exception. This post is about heat sinks. LEDs like to run at about 25 deg C or 70F. Led manufacturers give guidelines for heat sink size and configuration. With this information you can re-purpose a computer …
