Backyard / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

As summer arrives and homeowners start opening their pools, those first couple of weeks will be a bit too chilly at first without a pool heater, unless of course ice dunks are your thing. Pool water does not heat up fast or for free, so here we want to explore the cost of heating a pool with a variety of methods.  Give...

...backyards have one main point in common – Kentucky blue grass. But here we’re talking about ground covers and alternatives to this grass, not a bunch of fiddle and banjo players jamming in your backyard.  The traditional green grass we use to cover our front and back yards has many disadvantages and quite honestly, ver...