I love the way people are so inspired by green. The great thing about it is that it can pretty much be applied to anything in your life and make it better. For example as a green contractor in Brooklyn I’m putting a green perspective on Brownstone renovations. It is such simple yet powerful formlua: […]
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There are off gassing issues with most boards – plywood, OSB board, sheet rock, homasote etc. The fumes are nasty and in many case give people cancer over time. The best way to judge how bad the materials are is to go to the store and push the top couple boards aside then quickly take
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Here is an article by a major news agency about how dry wall imported from china is toxic. A couple things: – I’m sure they are right about the Chinese drywall. – They claim the US dry wall is safe….I am skeptical of that. – Another thing is that since it is a story from
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Because I am a green contractor in Brooklyn where there is an abundance of brownstones I can green I have the luxury of not having to build new houses. We all have to make a living and some people fall into the new homes business so I understand that. Renovating Old Building But we need
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I’ve thought up a concept called Building Forwards where you create equity for people in the future. It comes down to using time as a bank. The perspective of time makes all the difference with how we live our lives. I had an interview with the execs at Lightolier lighting company here in Manhattan this
One of the frustrating things as a green contractor in New York and Brooklyn is that a lot of the building code isn’t smart. We aren’t allowed to use PEX tubing for household water. Running direct half inch pex lines to each faucet is a really smart thing to do. This is called home run
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As a green contractor in Brooklyn, NY. I can post an add on Craigslist.org and get a hundred responses in an hour of highly qualified people asking very little for their work. Such is the nature of the economy, a highly skilled region and immediate technology. But here is the kicker: I get people asking
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One thing a sales person wrote to me the other day caught my eye since it is a very common theory in almost everything, especially in the western world. And that is the concept of spending more to save time. Time is money concept etc. Like many companies he used the theory to sell his
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Normal building terminology for taking out an old building structure is called “demolition.” When you want to redo your brownstone’s bathroom you have to first do a demolition of the existing bathroom. But as a green contractor in Brooklyn we don’t demolish anything. The term demolish does not exist in green building. We deconstruct Deconstruction
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I stumbled across this site today while looking for the definition of “deck-to-deck partitions.” I never did found out the definition because I got lost inside the Harvard site. It has all sorts of cool stuff. Especially useful for me right now is their LEED Roadmap which offers great study guides and resources. Check site
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