Refinishing brick homes/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...Refinishingbricks and masonry - before and after © Perma Tint How mineral paint forbrickworks: Rather than forming a coating on thebrick, these waterborne mineral paints cause a chemical reaction that permanently binds them to thebricksubstrate. These are silica-based products that are bio...

...homes在炎热潮湿的地区使用空调，如果你想让你的房子持续使用，这是不应该做的。Durable, healthy and sustainablehomesneed careful research and planning - as changing one element without considering how this changes the dynamics of the building envelope is a potential recipe for disaster. Th...

Insulation slows the rate of heat transfer, helping keephomeswarmer in winter and cooler in summer. How well-insulated your home is will determine how comfortable it is and how much you will spend on energy for heating and cooling, and in some respects, how durable it will be. The transfer of heat (or heat loss) o...

...homescertified to either LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), or Built Green standards. Some municipalites will also offer rebates on building permits forhomesthat carry building certications. Many provincial power suppliers are also on board with grant programs for building energy-efficienthomes...

...homesthat are typically built, as housing developers rely on building code minimum standards to determine efficiency. As performance isn't always high on the radar of home buyers, builders make more money that way, but leave homeowners with unnecessarily high heating bills for the rest of their lives. In contrast, a...

...homes导致昂贵的装修和维修，所以，问题是，我们应该怎么处理冷凝?How do we fix and prevent condensation in ourhomes? Condensation inhomes– the basics So what is condensation? Condensation in its purest form is caused when humidity in the air comes in contact with...

Siding Installation The walls of your home are an environmental separator. Their job is to keep the inside in and the outside out. Exterior cladding or 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...

...homes. It has been estimated that based on standard building practices, air leakage accounts for about 1/3 of the total heat loss of a home . A blower door test for buildings is a way to measure air leakage but, more importantly, it’s a way to find air leaks and fix them. Fixing air leaks is ‘low hanging fruit’ in t...

...homes. It isn’t usually hard to find usedbricks, see here our page about where to buy and sell used building materials to get some tips on finding stock. Older semi-detachedhomessometimes havebrickparty walls betweenhomesthat are covered in plaster, so you may have a beautiful accent wall just waiting to be un...

...Bricks won't change much over time but can be refinished if needed , but wood siding will need repainting every 15 years or so; figure out how far away you are from future maintenance costs. Look around the base of siding and at the corners for signs of rot and water damage. Read more about choosing exterior siding . ...

...bricks listed. You can sometimes even find usedbricklisted on Ebay and there are certainly houses that deal soley in reclaimedbrick. You can find a primer here on identifying various types ofbrickand their properties and if you plan to be reclaiming the oldbricks for re-use yourself here is a good resource on c...