Natural building materials / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...materials used to achieve an airtight building envelope, especially for natural building materials like hempcrete: Continuous air barrier: The most important principle is to create a continuous air barrier around the entire building envelope, including the walls, roof, floor, windows, and doors. This means sealing all...

...materials is that cedar is a natural wood product that 'breathes', absorbing and releasing moisture. This organic nature is both its strength and its weakness. The natural oils in cedar provide inherent resistance to insects and decay, but this protection diminishes over time. This issue is more pronounced today, as mo...

...building and renovation plans, natural insulation materials are gaining traction in the market. Sheep wool insulation is one such example. Can you really keep a home warm with sheep wool insulation? Well, it seems to work well for sheep, except of course the ones that got a recent buzz cut. Many natural insulation opti...

...natural carbon-storage building materials that preserve natural resources and contribute to healthier indoor air quality in homes. Learn more about how hemp floor boards are produced in the video below. Now that you know about formaldehyde-free, zero VOC hemp flooring materials, you can learn more about green buil...

...Natural Grass Insulation Batts and Rigid Boards Carbon capture & storage with building materials Where most building materials have a ‘carbon footprint’, meaning the amount of embodied energy required to extract raw materials and manufacture products, some natural building materials, like the grass insulation from...

...natural building products in the Ecohome Building Guide and pages such as :  Find hemp insulation here for your green home build Natural earth paints Non-toxic natural finishing oil for wood that protect indoor air quality Also see Surgically Clean Air’s JADE ™ 2.0 Air Purifier Take out a Free Ecohome Members...

...building product, most notably as hemp-batt insulation, and also hemp boards for cabinetry.  Why choose hemp building materials? The growing and harvesting of hemp is a far more sustainable process than harvesting wood for use as building products, due to the short time period in which a crop is ready to harvest. Tradi...

...building products in the Ecohome Green Building Guide and these pages here:  Air barriers and air sealing a home during construction or renovation All about Passive House construction Find and buy green building products in the Ecohome product directory Find more natural home finishing materials for safe indoor...

...natural building or a home with natural paints or plasters, you can tell instantly. Natural earth pigment colors and textures bring an unmistakable warmth and coziness to a room – not to mention healthy air quality in your home. Every room in my conventional, dry-walled home is painted with a natural clay paint that's ...