Category: green building

Mixers – Showers

If you want speed and convenience, without completely sacrificing luxury, then you absolutely must have a shower as an integral part of your bathroom suite. The thing is, there is an awful lot of difference between the various arrays of shower setups out there – how do you know which way to turn? So, let’s say …

Top Tips for Adding Value

When it comes to home improvements, while making your home a better place for you and your family is the most important consideration, it’s also a good idea to think about how you might be adding value. If you think there’s a good chance that you’ll be putting your real estate on the market in the …

Useful Tips & Terms for Green Homebuyers

There are numerous options to consider when tinkering with the layout of your home in order to make it greener. Here are a few possible green adjustments to consider as you’re building or remodeling your home. Green Roofing – Green roofing replaces the shingles on your roof with soil and plants. This type of roof is …

How You Can Reduce Your Building Site’s Carbon Footprint

Any building site, regardless of how large or small it is, will end up being an area that will have a quite large carbon footprint. Building sites require an enormous amount of energy not only in terms of supplies and goods, but also with a large amount of people and equipment needed to get the site …

Home Building on a Budget

Building a home does not have to be a financial nightmare. There are a number of ways that you can make building your dream home a bit more affordable. If you are working with a specific budget in mind, you can stick to this and still get the home that you want.   Here are a …

Popular Alternative Sources of Energy

More and more, people are becoming conscious that they should reduce the carbon footprint of their home and focus on ways of becoming eco-friendly. To accomplish this, homeowners are looking to utilise some of the most popular sources of alternative energy in their homes. Not only are these alternative energy sources much more eco-friendly and sustainable …

What’s a Little Flooring Between Friends?

Depending on the exact type of flooring that you choose and then purchase for your home environment, there are various benefits that come with each choice of flooring type. For the purposes of this short article, let us just compare the benefits of two kinds of flooring types: wood flooring and cork flooring, which are basically …

The ultimate in ‘green’ construction

What’s the greenest way to build? Using natural, renewable  resources? Using salvaged building materials? Or using the same stuff you’ve  always used, but which some corporate PR firm has managed to repackage as  “green”? These are all ways to profess greenness, some effective,  some merely gestural. But by far the greenest way to build is to …