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Allergy season has officially begun in the Carolinas Piedmont, with the first windborne tree pollen – cedar, maple and birch – drifting invisibly through the air in the first weeks of February, sneaking into your home’s cracks and crevices. 
It’s -5ºC outside and Reiner Hoyer’s new house is 26ºC inside. That’s too hot, but it’s not because the heat is cranked up too high. In fact, the heat isn’t on at all. The only thing overheating the place are the tools and lights used by tradespeople working on the final construction details before Hoyer and his wife, Melanie, move in. Reiner has 30 years experience as a contractor; he’s won awards for his work. But this house is something he’s built for himself. It’s one of Canada’s first ‘passive houses’ and it shows just how far we can get towards the ideal of comfort and efficiency. The fact that red tape almost prevented this building from going up also proves that technology isn’t the main limiting factor to creating truly green homes, though fancy technology is certainly part of the equation. more In Texas, SES Foam and Imperial Sugar Co. announced the introduction of SucraSeal, an environmentally friendly, open-cell, Class 1 sucrose-based spray foam, with a finished foam green content of 25%. SucraSeal is described as fire-resistant, passes the ACC 377 Appendix X test and does not require chemical barriers and coatings. SES developed SucraSeal in conjunction with Imperial Sugar Company. SES combined their urethane knowledge with Imperial Sugar Company’s natural product knowledge to develop a product. more Stek said Michael Gratton and another man from Peninsula Spray Foam were driving to a job shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday when they spotted the smoke. “We kicked in the door, smashed in the window and pulled him out,” Gratton said, noting he was headed to a job in Crystal Lake when he saw the fire. |
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Don’t look now, but your home is under assault.
