When you renovate a green brownstone in Brooklyn you create a very tight house that does not breather like the leaky old brownstones. This means you need to arrange another way for the brownstone to breathe. Another consideration is that Brooklyn is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. One way is to […]
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Most people have no idea what state the ecology of the world is. They still think it is about saving the wildlife. But they are terribly wrong. The wildlife has already been decimated. The forests, plants and animals are for the most part destroyed. Not some of it but the majority of it. We have
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Here is the list of sedum we installed on the Brooklyn green show house green roof installation. We got them from motherplants.net, a great source of green roof plants. We picked these sedum because they will do well in Brooklyn. SEDUM ACER Sedum acre, a yellow-flowered, short-statured plant that does well on cold climate roofs,
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If you ever lay in bed at night like I do wondering how efficient a gas fireplace is then wonder no more. all_about_gas_fireplaces-1 Put out by the Canadian Government it gives you everything you need to know about gas fireplaces: How to rate their efficiency The different kinds of venting Why to avoid the new
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This weekend the green roof was installed on the Brooklyn green show house. Eco Brooklyn is a green roof installer with the humble goal of getting green roofs onto every building in Brooklyn. We want to peer over the Brooklyn roof tops and see a sea of green, a vibrant ecological community in the sky.
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If you are putting a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone (like we just did) chances are you don’t have a lot of space for soil and plants to be laying around. This means you need to get your materials the day before you plan on installing your green roof. We recommend getting the plants
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We just installed the green roof on the Brooklyn Green Show House. Here are the material costs to build a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone. Total Roof area 600 sq.ft. Green Roof area 500 sq.ft. Roof Prep This stage is about getting as much insulation and waterproofing on as possible. A green roof gives
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There is nothing more wonderful than feeling that your actions in this life are meaningful and good. That is why I am so happy as a green builder in Brooklyn. I feel my actions better the world now and for generations to come. Another person who I think is doing the same in his own
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Here is a great rundown of alternatives to normal decking. It is by a fellow emailer Tim Keating, director of Rainforest Relief. — Re: wood-plastic composite lumbers (WPCLs) a la Trex, Weatherbest, etc.), imho, these are fine for a home but have problems that ‘true’ recycled plastic lumbers don’t have. First, many of these lumbers
In Brooklyn there aren’t that many pitched roofs. You get a lot of them in certain areas, especially Ditmas Park. We have a client in that area who approached us to replace their asphalt roof with the same. We are green roofers in Brooklyn so we come up when people do internet searches. But since
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