Composite wood siding/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...CompositewoodsidingproductsCompositewoodsiding© Céline LecomteCompositewoodrefers to the repurposing of wastewoodinto usablesidingproducts. Small chips and sawdust can be steam pressed into a very close likeness of actualwoodsiding, including the addition of realistic looking...

...woods. Armed with an appreciation for the great outdoors and a desire to learn to live off-grid, he bought 40 acres in the Sierras where he could do just that. After five years of hard work, Basich had a beautiful and artfully designed tiny home, respecting the principles of the golden ratio and perfectly suited to h...

...wood- Which is Best? Odds are, that if you pass a housing development ofwood-framed houses, it will have OSB (oriented strand board) as exterior sheathing . When you count sub-floors, roofs and wall sheathing, OSB claims about 70% of thewoodsheathing market in North America over plywood. Both products have benefi...

...woodproducts that are far more susceptible to moisture damage than solid lumber . If you were thinking it's ok to build a new home with OSB "because everybody does it", see why we consider that the small extra cost of plywoodmay be worth it when compared to the disadvantages of OSB here . So; why do new houses rot ...

...WoodorComposite: Cedar deck and stairs under construction - naturalwoodmakes a beautiful finish but will need maintenance The choices of deck materials for a raised deck surface basically splits into two groups - realwoodor artificialcompositewooddeck planks or recycled plastic decking - and either cho...