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Bamboo Flooring Guide
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Bamboo has become a very popular green material lately. The fast-growing grass (thats right—not wood!) has garnered much green cred for growing so quickly—it can be harvested after growing for just 4 or 5 years—and is often grown without the need for pesticides, and can regenerate without seeding. Flooring is ...1 week ago -
Cork Flooring Guide
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One of the most comfortable, beautiful flooring choices available, cork is a renewable, sustainable resource that, when managed correctly, can continue to produce materials for flooring (and other cork uses) for hundreds of years to come. Harvested primarily from the cork oak tree (Quercus suber), cork is renown for ...1 week ago -
Top 10 Myths and Misconceptions About Green Building
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Find out the biggest misconceptions of green building.1 week ago -
Paint Guide
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Perhaps the most popular wallcovering in use today, painted walls are a great way to add some personality and a pop of color to a room. Unfortunately, paint can also be a way to add toxic airborne chemicals to your home, too, if you choose the wrong ones. On the flip side, green paint has really become very popular, ...1 week ago -
Clay Plaster Guide
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Clay plaster is the Swiss Army Knife of wall coverings; it can do just about everything, but it takes some practice before you understand how to really make it work. Sort of a hybrid between paint and plaster walls — the kind you find in pre-WWII construction in this country — clay plaster is a healthy, versatile, ...1 week ago -
Wallpaper Guide
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Though once relegated to Grandmas house in the 1970s, wallpaper has enjoyed a bit of a comeback in home decor. Thats a good thing: The old stuff could be as gaudy and over the top as it was unhealthy, and the environmental health implications of wallpaper have improved right along with the svelte new design. You still ...1 week ago -
Kristian Wants to Make Warrnambool in House
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WARRNAMBOOL (VICTORIA): British open road cycling champion Kristian House will make his fifth assault on the Mitchell Building Supplies Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic on Saturday and is desperately hoping for a change of fortune. House, 30, enjoys a love-hate relationship with the classic, first held in 1895 and ...2 weeks ago -
Looking at Windows: The Materials Matter
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There are many different kinds of windows, that operate in different ways and serve different functions. But in the air conditioned era, people choose them for aesthetics rather than function, and the memory of what the different different windows do has been almost forgotten. In most single and multiple family ...2 weeks ago -
Awning and Hopper Window Guide
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The screen is on the inside and they seal tightly. They are useful at low levels in a room to get good convection effects. Good for childens safety as they dont open very far. They are often used as part of an assembly with big fixed glass, and in highrise dwellings where window openings are controlled by law to keep ...2 weeks ago -
Double Hung Window Guide
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These windows have upper and lower moving sections that give a lot of flexibility; if you open the top and the bottom you can create a convection current in the room; If you open it at the bottom in one room and the top in another you can tune the windows to maximize ventilation.2 weeks ago -
Fiberglass Insulation Guide
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If you have ever worked with it you know how it makes your skin itch; imagine it in your lungs. Some have claimed that it is the next asbestos and is cancer-causing one website calls it "The Asbestos of the 21st Century. Packages of insulation carry cancer warning labels, based on a 1998 study. However the American ...3 weeks ago -
Cellulose Insulation Guide
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Cellulose is shredded newspaper and cardboard treated with a binder to hold it together, with borax added as fire retardant and to control vermin. Its made from recycled materials and "tighter" than fiberglass; air doesnt circulate in it as easily.3 weeks ago -
Introduction to the Green Materials Guide
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When it comes to building or renovating a home, there are few simple choices. From styles and colors to location and design, theres an awful lot to consider, but, thankfully, you dont have to settle for materials whose production or use has a big-time negative impact on the planet. Here to help is our Green Materials ...3 weeks ago -
Introduction to Insulation: Boards, Batts and Sprays
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There are so many choices in insulation; before we can even start to look at the different materials, one should understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different types.3 weeks ago -
Mitchell’s Help Build Warrnambool Classic
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WARRNAMBOOL (VICTORIA): Mitchell Building Supplies is the new major sponsor of the Melbourne to Warrnambool cycling classic. The company’s managing director Frank Agosta is a former cyclist and longtime supporter of Victorian track and road events.He won the Camperdown Open in the late 1950s. Mitchell Building ...4 weeks ago -
Obama Seeks Green Certification For White House
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seansies photostream (creative commons) The White House has been looking quite green since Obama took office with the addition of an organic garden and playground made from recycled materials. Now the President plans to go further by seeking LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. I really ...8 weeks ago
