Articles tagged “Home Repair”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

How to Fix a Leaky Toilet Flapper By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 24 2009 13.7% of water used in the home isn't even used. It's wasted through leaks. You're spending 13.7% percent of your water budget on nothing. That isn't money down the drain. It never even made it to the drain. One of the most common sources of these leaks is the toilet flapper. + READ MORE

Steve Thomas to Appear on EcoMan and the Skeptic Radio Show Today! By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 19 2009 Steve Thomas, host of Renovation Nation, is scheduled to make a guest appearance on the sixth episode of EcoMan and the Sketpic, a web radio show about sustainable design and green building. The live show airs today—February 19th, 2009—at 3 PM on the Green Talk Network. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Window By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 Windows are made of fragile, fragile glass, and they can easily end up getting smashed in by a baseball, a stone or even a smaller window that somebody threw during a fight. Use your putty knife to remove the metal track. Once the stops are out, you should be able to remove the lower sash. + READ MORE

The Shower and the Faucet By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 The Shower: 11.6 percent gallon per person. 16.8% of indoor water use. The Faucet: 10.9 gallons a day per person. 15.7 percent of home energy use. + READ MORE

The Toilet and the Clothes Washer By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 The Toilet: 18.5 gallons a day per person. 26.7 percent of indoor water use. The Clothes Washer: 15 gallons a day per person. 21.7 percent of indoor water use. + READ MORE

Set Your Green Home Priorities for Water Conservation By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 The hardest part about going green is figuring out where to start. Should you buy a hybrid or upgrade your insulation? There are so many different ecological concerns that you can easily feel overwhelmed. Don't panic. Nobody is perfect. You can't have zero ecological impact. That's impossible. What is possible, however, is that you lessen your footprint and find a way to live a sustainable lifestyle. + READ MORE

Ask Steve Thomas Anything (About Your Home) By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 6 2009 We've all watched the nail-pounding, green-as-grass, home-fixin? action on Renovation Nation. We've seen walls torn down, carpets ripped asunder, solar panels mounted and energy efficiency increased. And Steve Thomas has been there at the center of it all with a warm smile, a skillful hand and his brain full of green renovation knowledge. Now you can access that knowledge without the aid of a psychic by simply asking Steve. + READ MORE

How to Clean a Furnace Filter By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 4 2009 A clean furnace filter can cut your heating bill by 5 to 15 percent. If you live in a cold area of the world, it is likely that the majority of your home-energy expenditure will go towards your furnace. Cleaning your furnace filter is an easy and cheap way of reducing your energy costs and improving your indoor air quality. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Green Your Windows for Under 30 Bucks By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 4 2009 Many of us cannot afford to replace our windows with state-of-the-art, energy-efficient windows. The economy is bad. Sure, it's also bad for window makers, but as long as there are baseballs and other projectiles, I reckon they'll weather this rocky economy. + READ MORE

Install Insulation Properly And Remember The R-Factor By Seth Leitman IN Home & Garden Jan 28 2009 The effectiveness of insulating your attic depends on the proper R-value for your home (depending upon where you live) and how you insulate the attic. Get the facts before you install your insulation. + READ MORE

Sites We Love: Do It Yourself Decorating for Revamping your Green Palace By Megan Cohen IN Home & Garden Jan 23 2009 Take green into your own hands at our Site of the Week, Do It Yourself Decorating. You can get clear, clean, no-nonsense advice on everything from using color theory to wrangling window hardware. Learn how to turn your digs into your dream home with this exhaustive collection of the web's best decorating how-tos. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Door By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Dec 22 2008 Doors are the portals to you home. They are one of the first things guests see when they visit and the last thing that they see when they leave. It is important to have a nice door. As someone who is eco-savvy, you may want to reclaim a door instead of having a new one manufactured. Here's how. + READ MORE

Greenovate Episode: Juliette O. By Team Planet Green IN Greenovate Nov 14 2008 Juliette & Alexander Ouvaroff always dreamed of owning a home on the historic canals in Venice, California. They've purchased the ugliest one on the block - a 900 square feet, 2 bedroom 1 bath craftsman - and they've decided... + READ MORE

Why Hire a Green Renovation Expert? By Leslie Billera IN Home & Garden Aug 18 2008 Is it time to redo your kitschy kitchen? De-junk the garage and make it into a guest room? Or just put a new and improved roof on your home? If so, go for the green. After all, you'll probably be spending a bit of your hard earned green on your project, so do it up eco and feel great about your investment! + READ MORE

Organic Earth Plaster By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Aug 5 2008 A recent episode of Renovation Nation featured a product called organic. Unfortunately, organic earth plasters aren't as resistant to damage as regular plasters, but earth plasters are easier to fix. + READ MORE

Green Adhesives By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Jul 30 2008 We all use adhesives. I guarantee that you?ll find something easily accessible and affordable for you to use as an alternative to traditional glue. + READ MORE

When Construction Materials Finally Die By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 4 2008 The Harlem building on World?s Greenest Homes is a showcase for the amazing transformations that can happen when your green remodel uses anything and everything you find on a building site. But, what are the eco-smart options for building materials that are really, seriously, definitely, totally, absolutely non-negotiable trash, and can?t be re-used? + READ MORE

Wa$ted Episode: Where There's Smoke... By Team Planet Green IN Wasted Episodes Jun 30 2008 Joe is engaged to Laurel, and they live in a house in rural New Jersey with her sister, Alexa. They love living in the country and their house would be a perfect model of green living, except that their road... + READ MORE

Insulate your Attic with Foam? By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jun 23 2008 Steve Thomas, during a recent episode of Renovation Nation, suited up in full-on hazardous material-type garb and sprayed a bunch of chemicals into the attic of a house. When the chemicals came in contact with the attic walls, the chemicals expanded into a goop that looked like ice cream. How can this possibly be in sync with the planet, Steve? What are you doing? These are the actions of a Captain Planet villain, not the actions of the kindly, bespectacled renovator that we all know and love. + READ MORE

Greensburg Photos By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Apr 13 2008 Here is a tiny glimpse at some of the people and scenes of Greensburg, Kansas. Their homes have been destroyed and are in different stages of destruction, repair and rebuild. The journey to reclaim their homes is a hard one,... + READ MORE