Reasons To Use Reclaimed Wood In Your Home
When upgrading or refinancing your home there are a multitude of factors for the homeowner to consider. First, there are the financial concerns. Is your home energy efficient? Have you …
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How to Shop for Green Roofing Materials
Some, like updating your roof, are necessary whether you like it or not. Although re-roofing your home is almost always expensive, updating your roof with green roofing materials can significantly reduce your utility bills.
Read MoreNow is the Time to Install Solar Panels on Your Roof
When starting the FIT scheme, it was understood that the solar panel bonanza wouldn’t last forever. The scheme was introduced to counteract the excessive solar panel retail price.
Read MoreHow Can Sugarcane be Cool and Modern
The sugarcane wall panels are made from reclaimed sugarcane fibres that are left over after harvesting the sugar juice. These fibres are mashed into pulp and moulded into lightweight 3-dimensional wall panels.
Read MoreThe Ultimate Recycled House – The Lost World
So the enthusiastic palaeontologist ended up with body parts belonging to different dinosaurs and although he could have gone all funny by constructing a non-existent dinosaur, he decided to have a more serious approach and kick his habit by using the bone fragments to build a house. It took him 5796 bone fragments to finish the house.
Read MoreThings to do with Cardboard Tubes
If you happen to get your hands on industrial toilet-roll tubes or (in this particular case) packaging material rolls, don’t throw them away. Those sturdy cardboard tubes make an amazing material for various lovely DIY things.
Read MoreWill Coconut Palms Save the Forests from Extinction?
Coir is a relatively cheap material and makes for superb mattresses. I’m old enough to have experienced proper eco-friendly mattresses made of horse hair or seaweed. Before the synthetic junk beds came into fashion – there were much less allergies and asthmatic issues around.
Read MoreClean Air – 80 Trees or One House
It can be used to create exterior aluminium panels that will attract and break down organic matter, solid pollutants and other smog-contributing substances floating in the air.
Read MoreCrawley Welcomes 4 new Eco-Friendly Homes
The government has invested in a scheme to transform 86 homes across the country into clean living, energy saving eco-wonders!
Read MoreGas Prices Going Up in the UK
The hardest thing about embarking on an eco-home improvement project is committing to spending money right now.
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