What is manufacturer’s’ obsession with telling me how many LEED points I can earn by buying their product?! From the advertisements you’d think every house being built is going for LEED. But the manufacturers know they aren’t. They are betting on people saying, “Heck, if it good for LEEDS then it’s good for my little […]
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I’m happy to say that NY is an exception to the rule that using wood isn’t green due to the Gotham Forest we have here: millions of board feet of old growth lumber sitting in the frames of old buildings just waiting to be harvested and reused. I simply have to drive around to dumpsters
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We are installing radiant floor heating with pex tubes. We had a set of challenges: The floor height was low or the floor already had wood flooring on top of it. Radiant Subfloor In both these cases it did not work to put pex tubing OVER the subfloor. So we had to hang it below
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I was discussing with somebody about straw bale homes and how they don’t actually last as long as other well built homes. It made me think that you basically get what you build with. Hold a peice of the material in your hand and it will give you a very good indication of how long
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