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 […]
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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
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As a Brooklyn green contractor we are always looking for ways to save resources. The key ones are water, electricity, and raw materials. We don’t mind using up human energy. It’s good exercise and pretty much limitless. But when you hear facts like the ones in the video below you realize how important it is
As brooklyn green roofers the first thing we suggest is a green roof. It has so many benefits and is at an affordable price where it would be silly not to. If that is not possible a cheaper alternative is to simply paint the roof white. The reduction in air quality both inside the house
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This image shows the time it takes to attain old growth for a forest. It is a humbling time frame. It is a classic example of build it forward thinking. If we plan on an old growth forest now it will need to be tended and protected for at least 200 years into the future
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I’ve been speaking with Wendy in Suffolk County about bats. She makes and sells bat houses and we’re talking about the best way to have a bat house in the Brooklyn Green Show House. Bat are a very important part of the ecosystem. One of the reasons Brooklyn has such a problem with mosquitoes is
Tomorrow (Saturday): A Used-Electronics Community Recycling Event in Park Slope- This July 18, from 9a.m. until 6p.m., join Park Slope in welcoming PerScholas to Brooklyn with a Community Used-Electronics Recycling Event. Operating under the highest standards of excellence, PerScholas, a non-profit organization, will save your electronics from landfills (where their toxins soak into the earth).
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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.
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Reclaimed Roofs has a new list of inventory. If you want a great roof they are the ones. Here is their list.
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I had an odd visitor to the Brooklyn green show house yesterday – a Corcoran real estate agent. It is odd because your typical Corcoran agent still has their head in the sand thinking luxury condos are great. So I was pleasantly surprised to meet Gene who is actually pretty honest and down to earth.
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