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Eco Brooklyn’s Gennaro Brooks-Church discusses our clay wall application. Creating a better seal on bricks and more insulation, Eco Brooklyn applies clay to walls all over New York City. Most recently we applied clay in our Harlem Passive House and in the downstairs apartment in our Brooklyn Show House. Check out this great video! [...] As a New York contractor we are constantly trying to incorporate the best green building techniques to New York and Brooklyn brownstones. The creative use of clay is one of our tools. We just did a another clay wall job in Brooklyn. We switched the mix up a little to make it a little smoother, [...] Construction is conventionally a carbon-intensive industry – especially in a place like Brooklyn where most homes, coffee shops, book stores and restaurants are built primarily with concrete, mortar, brick and stone. Some degree of greenhouse gas emission is inherent in the production of all construction materials, but none more so than the cement which [...] We are building a Passive House in a Manhattan brownstone. Instead of using more synthetic materials to air seal the brick walls (crucial for PH) we are using clay. Here are some notes to a successful clay application over New York brownstone brick walls: – Use reinforcment mesh (fiberglass is best, hemp is mesh also [...] American Clay is a great company that is reviving a millenia old building technique of applying clay to building walls. They have a strong local culture and associate themselves strongly with their Santa Fe roots. But to grow as a company they also ship anywhere. They are very helpful with advice [...] |
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