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Reclaimed Pine Flooring
These floors look beautiful. For those of you who haven’t followed this project on a regular basis, the floors are approx. 100 year old reclaimed long-leaf pine. The material comes out of an old church in South Texas and has been milled to T/G material. The floors had been installed for about 2 months [...]
About tankless hot water heaters
So I just got out of interesting meeting with a potential client and the discussion came up about tankless hot water heaters and are they always the best solution to any given situation? Simple answer is NO! There never is “a” best solution to any given situation.
Water heater replacement just like anything in energy [...]
Outside the Box, Inside the Forest
Looking for a great product that also helps the environment? You must be thinking wood. No? Well maybe you should. Being green doesn’t mean you have to build a cold ultra modern house. One of BMC’s sheetgood vendors, Sierra Pacific, points out common misconceptions about the resourcefulness of wood.
Trees provide the only 100% renewable, recyclable, reusable, and [...]
Was your Green Product Distributed Green?
Consider full chain of custody when designing green. No matter what lengths the manufacturer takes to produce an earth friendly product, the many hands of custody can be just as crucial. Fancy certifications can be useless when they travel halfway across the world or are shipped to a high-exposure distributor. The residential construction industry in Dallas [...]
The only true green alternative to gypsum drywall.
The only true green alternative to gypsum drywall. Same price. Better performance.
Traditional gypsum drywall has remained virtually unchanged since its invention over 100 years ago. Our increasingly fragile world requires rapid innovation to meet the changing conditions of our environment. EcoRock is an evolutionary leap in drywall— an advanced solution that offers superior performance today, [...]
Sharp introduces nine new LED lamps for home use
Photo: Sharp
Energy-efficient lighting without compromises is on the mind of every green builder & remodeler – and finding products and solutions is not always easy and hardly ever fits in any lighting budget. Well, Sharp just introduced a great new product and will hopefully introduce it to the US market soon.
Sharp just introduced nine models [...]
A word about planning in the early stages….
As we discussed the framing layout at our site meeting this morning, I thought it would be a good idea to write a post on how important early planning is in any project. As it is the case in this project, we have a final design that calls for all sorts of things to be [...]
Why performance testing should be mandatory
There’s a big debate in the green building industry about performance testing – should it be mandatory for new and existing construction and how much good will it do? As reported in the American Statesman on June 10, 2009 Austin just released the results of the first 310 homes that received energy audits under the [...]
