Exterior cladding/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...cladding, fences, long-lasting decking ), it should be oiled about every 10-15 years, which is fairly standard forexterior木材治疗。如果保养得好，它会更好地保持颜色，并能更长久地防水。对于内部用途而言，它主要是被看到的，而不是被触摸的，它将需要……

...exterior, one of the greatest ways you can protect your home is through good design. Extensive overhangs will mean that the majority of rain will not even touch your walls or the siding, this fact alone will greatly increase the lifespan of whatevercladdingyou choose to put on theexteriorof your home. Rain, UV ra...

...Exteriorcladdingor siding is your first line of defense against weather elements, and its job is to allow interior control layers (ie. the building envelope) to do their jobs without being assaulted by wind, precipitation and UV rays. Walls in heating/cooling climates like Canada need to be designed to dry during a...

...exteriorbrickcladdinglikely won’t do it in all but the most extreme case of either damaged bricks, or just plain ugly ones! In fact, it is just as likely that painting brick will devalue your home. How much does it cost to paint a brick house? The average cost to repaint a brick house will likely run in the area...

...exteriorcladding顶部和底部的通风开口共同创造了一个“雨幕”。防雨屏的目的是保护墙壁免受暴雨的影响，同时让任何渗入的水分排出，并让空气通过，使其干燥。侧板安装方法©Ecohome install…

...exteriorinsulation: It would have been quicker for us to attach the entire mass ofexteriorinsulation with longer screws and only one course of strapping, but using THERM software, our engineer determined that the cold transmitted through the metal screws would have reduced the effective R-value of theexteriorins...

Home Insulation - how much is too much? A House can definitely be under-insulated (millions of homes throughout the United States and Canada have this very problem), but can a home have too much insulation? In short, yes it can. In reality, there is an optimal balance between the up-front cost of insulation and th...

Future-proofing homes for Climate Change: Anticipating future climatic challenges and constructing resilient buildings to withstand them should be an important consideration when building any new home - but we're often told that "a Green Home costs more", and too many people then decide in the face of resistance fro...

They might be parked a little more precisely than an auto wrecking yard, but that doesn’t mean they will ever fly again. Decommissioned aircraft have been declared so, because they have reached the end of their safe flying days. While most of us might be fine riding in rusty old cars, few of us would climb into a ru...

EcoHome is in the process of building our next demonstration low-energy house , and to do so we have partnered with a company that manufactures frost-protected shallow foundations (slab-on-grade ) that are heated with air rather than liquid. There are many advantages to air-heated radiant floors over hydronic radiant ...

The U.S. Green Building Council and the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning released a landmark report Feb. 29 that describes how green buildings advance resiliency in disasters. “Green Building and Climate Resilience: Understanding Impacts and Preparing for Changing Conditions”...