Category: Air Quality

    • 6 Sustainable Home Renovation Tips to Improve Your Fixer-Upper, guest post by Ray Flynn

      When planned correctly, buying a fixer-upper can help you save money while creating the house of your dreams. You’re sure to have a few expectations and ideas about how you want your house to turn out, but where do you start? Try taking a sustainable approach to your home improvements so you can reduce your…

    • DIY HVAC Maintenance: What’s Safe and What to Avoid! Guest post by Ray Flynn

      DIY HVAC Maintenance: What’s Safe and What to Avoid! Guest post by Ray Flynn

      Being a homeowner is a wonderful investment that brings many fulfilling rewards. Of course, it also brings many (often unexpected) costs. From plumbing to electrical issues, there are hundreds of home repairs that could break the bank. Unfortunately, HVAC repairs could be one of them. HVAC repair technicians charge up to $80 per hour, and…

    • DIY HVAC Maintenance: What’s Safe and What to Avoid! – by Ray Flynn

      DIY HVAC Maintenance: What’s Safe and What to Avoid! – by Ray Flynn

      Thank you to Ray Flynn (ray.flynn@diyguys.net) for this guest contribution: Photo courtesy of Pexels Being a homeowner is a wonderful investment that brings many fulfilling rewards. Of course, it also brings many (often unexpected) costs. From plumbing to electrical issues, there are hundreds of home repairs that could break the bank. Unfortunately, HVAC repairs could…

    • Residential Energy Savings pyramid

      Not sure where to start with energy updated for the home? Ready to install PV panels to get off-grid? …or anywhere in-between. This is a great tool to help make sense of where to start and how to prioritize energy related updates to the house. Look also for other posts on this site for solar…

    • A Green “Home Away From Home”

      Becoming environmentally conscious has emerged as a main concern of homeowners, business owners, and the government over the past decade. Green homes, with lower potable water consumption, less energy use, and better building materials are sprouting up all over the world and commercial businesses are following their lead. All of the basics of sustainability easily…

    • The scent of building, or what is that construction smell…?

      Construction sites are not the most pleasant places for both the workers and those around them. They create lots of noise [machinery], smells [ah, roof tar!] and debris [smoke, ash, fumes, etc.]. But fear not. There are many ways for a construction site to be managed that can decrease all of these effects on the…