Tropical wood/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...woodwith a rich Canadian heritage. Cons: Some reclaimed materials can be quite labour intensive to prepare, particularly painted boards. You will likely encounter lead paint, so be sure to protect yourself. The safest option (and frankly, the easiest) is to have them sandblasted.Tropicalwoods Usingtropical...

...woodveneer plywood© Columbia Forest Products PlywoodPlywoodis most commonly found as a 4 x 8' panel that is made from thin sheets ofwoodveneer that are bonded together using phenol formaldehyde glues, although certain manufacturers are leading the way with formaldehyde-free plywoodproducts. Plywood是我们…

There are a few things that will cause any furnace to either stop running, or only deliver cold air, so here are a few easy DIY furnace repair tips that may get you warmed up without having to call an HVAC professional. It is at least a place to start, so you aren’t paying someone to come tell you that your thermostat...

...woodfrom this tree and go buy more, Brian Blak and Colleen Mahoney had a portable mill come and turn the tree into usable materials for their future building project. Despite being in awooded neighbourhood on a large lot, allowed to fall on its own this tree could have landed on any one of 3 homes. To take it dow...

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...wooddecay & rot. Yes, old windows will leak more air and lose more heat than new ones, but there is an energy variable to consider with replacement of windows as well. Purchasing a new window will also have its own energy and carbon footprint in terms of raw material extraction, manufacturing and transportation. ...

...wood, plastic, metal or stone. Different products bond to different surfaces. Note: The natural convection of warm air when it meets a cold surface can create the sensation of a draft when in reality there is none. Make sure it's not just cold air falling after coming in contact with the window before you scratch a h...

All nations want and need to get back to work, and soon , but there's going to have to be a lot of adjustments to how we actually do it. When we start to get back to normal after COVID-19, (the new normal anyway), there will likely be an extended period of time where we are all a little leery of shaking that first han...

While walking through a home show not long ago I came across a product that has always intrigued me, the laundry wash ball, some kind of magic bean that washes clothes without detergent. Curious but skeptical, I circled in for a closer look. As the Ecohome Network is considered a trusted source of green building and...

家用电池系统最近在两个方面有了实质性的改进，第一个大的改进是在电池本身。如今市场上的锂离子电池比我们过去所依赖的铅酸电池更耐用、功能更强大。铅酸电池放电容量超过50%…

...wooded area in central Maine; in this case, the roof orientation and limited space and shade from nearby trees made a tracker the most sensible option. And given that calculating demand is at best an educated guess, there is always the possibility that the needs will increase in the future. The system shown in these ph...