Roofing materials/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...roofingmaterial for a single installation, but its short lifespan will make it the most expensive choice over the life of a home. 2. Metal roofs: Metalroofing© Ecohome While the extraction and rendering of metalroofinghas a high-embodied energy, it will probably last your lifetime, and at the end of its ...

...materialsare not the only factors which affect in-service heat flow through building enclosures. For example, the exterior colour [i.e. solar reflectance] of the surface of an assembly can have a significant impact on the surface temperature, which in turn can impact the amount and direction of heat flow. For example,...

DIY Green Roof Installation The following DIY green roof video shows the steps needed to ensure your green roof will not leak. Watch more Green Building Guide videos from EcoHome on YouTube here The most common building material used forroofingin North America is asphalt shingles, and because of their poor...

...materialsyou chose for your wall assembly, your 'recipe' if you will. Permeability: Which works Better OSB or Ply? : The vapour permeance of building products is expressed in Nanograms in Canada (NG), as in how many NGs of moisture can pass through a material, tested under specific conditions. In the US they go by...

...materialsgo, it doesn't get much better than this. The end product is of superior quality, and you are essentially cleaning up rivers and saving forests at the same time. And from an historical point of view, there is a Canadian heritage that is being brought to the surface here. Making useful buildingmaterialsfro...

Stormwater - why it's important to choose permeable surfaces for paths & driveways As cities expand into the green space around them, naturally permeable landscapes are replaced with buildings, roads and parking lots. This inhibits the natural water-filtering process that happens when micro-organisms in the soil bre...

...materials水可以通过，足够多的水可以储存，直到它被吸收到地下。这是指用平板压实机将各种尺寸的石头(底部较大，顶部较小)清理平整。一些安装人员在顶部加一层沙子(1到1.5英寸)，以帮助设置……

LEED Platinum V4 Wall Design: Building Science The wall we designed for the Edelweiss house, Canada's first LEED Platinum V4 Home is best categorized as a 'REMOTE' wall, a high performance building envelope developed by the Cold Climate Housing Research Centre in Alaska. REMOTE stands for 'Residential Exterior M...

Insects & Rodents, how to show them the door... Below is a list of some of the more common rodents and insects that invade homes, and some ideas on how to rid yourself of the offending guests . We would certainly advocate for the most humane and non-toxic solutions first, but we have included other options if the hi...

...roofingmaterialstherefore shipping costs are reduced, and because they are much stronger, there is less loss due to breakage during transport. The skeptic in us says, sure, they may be lighter and break less than slate or terracotta, but metal roofs are probably the lightest by square foot and I've never seen a shi...

...roofingmaterialsare exposed to the sun they warm up and melt the surrounding snow. What causes ice dams on roofs and in attics? Ice dam protection and prevention: As some of these problems (such as snow, sun and wind) are unavoidable, the surefire solution to preventing water damage du...