Concrete floor / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...floors for added comfort. What you don’t see a lot of, are floors heated with air. Electric wire radiant floor heating © Ecohome How to make air-heated floors work: Since the first forced-air heating systems were introduced into homes, there have been attempts to distribute that heat through flooring sys...

...concrete also hardens in less than 24 hours compared to conventional concrete, which takes several days to sufficiently harden. Low-emission concrete blocks © Solidia Technologies® The end result is a 70% reduction in the total ecological footprint of conventional concrete, including 60 to 80% less water consumed. An...

...flooring option for anyone with chemical sensitivities who wants a beautiful and durable eco-friendly floor in their passive solar home - especially as built correctly with sufficient subfloor insulation a concrete monolithic slab on grade foundation makes a perfect thermal battery for solar heat. Sealing concrete floo...

...floor as you will ever find; excellent medium for radiant floor heat; almost all homes will have a concrete floor if not as the main floor, certainly as a basement, and polishing an existing floor is among the cheapest finished floors you can get. Cons: High GHGs during production; concrete itself it is very durable, b...