Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden))

Product Description:
Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home—even a green home—uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or remodel conscientiously, whether your dream home is a simple remodel or a brand-new multimillion-dollar mansion.

You’ll start by identifying green materials and sizing up potential systems and construction sites. You’ll weigh the pros and cons of popular green building methods and identify opportunities for saving money in the long run. Need to find some green professionals to assist you in your venture? We’ll help you do that, too. This book will also help you discover how to:

• Understand the lifecycle of building materials
• Choose the right system for your green building project
• Put together a green team
• Work within your budget
• Use green building methods and sustainable systems
• Speed construction and reduce energy use and waste
• Refinish old fixtures and materials
• Beware of asbestos and lead-paint hazards
• Avoid costly mistakes

Complete with lists of ten green things to do on every project and ten things you can do right now in your home in order to go green, Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your one-stop guide to planning and building the home you’ve always wanted.

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Love the dummies
This was bought as a gift for my boyfriend and he read the whole book and said it was very good, great detail and easy to understand language.
Rating: - great idea book!
We are planning to build a house sometime in the next 2 years and we just wantedto get a little info on how we could "green it up" a little. Well this book was full of valuable info! There were so many things that were listed in this book that we had no clue about. Before we thought that we would just try to do a few easy little things to help the enivironment, but now we are thinkng of building a almost completely Green home. We found out from reading this book that it will save us lots of $$$$ ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent overall review of green building
A great book to have in your library if you are interested in sustainable building. Excellent overview of all of the different aspects to consider.It did leave out any discussion of log construction.
Rating: - Green building for dummies
A comprehensive run over all the options when building new or remodelling a house and wanting to be "greener".Provides most of the sustainable info you need, and would help for future house rating schemes as much of the content structure seems to be geared around LEED.A possible fault is too much detail on alternative technologies (e.g. straw houses) which the vast majority of even green obesssives will never use.Good for reference or just dipping.As a non-American I found it a bit US-centric ... Read More
Rating: - Pretty good book.
This book has a lot of great ideas, however it has a very strong bias in certain areas such as wind energy being very poor cost efficient method of energy production. It goes in to depth about solar panels and offers alot of great ideas for cheap energy efficient housing ideas way above and beyond the average methods.