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Borax – an alternative to chemicals 20 Jan 2011 | 01:17 am
Borax is a viable alternative to certain complex chemical compounds in the home… Borax is the name applied to several mineral compounds of the chemical element boron – sodium borate, disodium tetrabor...
Code for Sustainable Homes 2 Jul 2008 | 06:54 am
A healthy house must exist within its environment. We cannot approach the design of our healthy house appropriately without taking into account the sustainability of the house within the context of it...
A Pattern Language – Towns Buildings Construction 29 Jun 2008 | 10:14 pm
Rather grandly, this book claims to be a working document for ‘a new traditional post-industrial architecture’. It contains 253 design patterns each describing a challenge or opportunity occuring in o...
Passive Solar Heating 25 Mar 2008 | 05:42 am
Through effective passive solar design we can harness the power of the sun in heating our healthy house whilst protecting inhabitants from excess heat. What do we mean by passive solar heating? Solar ...
Ecohouse – 3rd Edition 5 Mar 2008 | 08:15 pm
Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, Stephanie Thomas ~ 2007, Architectural Press. This book carries a strong Healthy House theme throughout and is recommended as a source of information for all aspects of the...
Clay Based Paint ~ A Healthy Alternative 5 Mar 2008 | 08:35 am
A healthy alternative to traditional paints are clayed based paints. Made from a mix of ingredients but based around clay and water, these products offer health benefits such as: # [they] minimises co...
Other Interesting Sites 1 Aug 2007 | 08:50 am
Whilst not necessarily strictly healthy house sites, if you are interested in housing, building, renovation or green and sustainability issues, then these sites may be of interest.
Visitor Feedback 1 Aug 2007 | 05:42 am
We welcome all feedback Please post your comments under any topic on this site, or post your general comments, feedback or requests here …
Safety, security, privacy 22 Jul 2007 | 02:40 am
A basic human requirement is for a safe place to live. Fire As news stories attest, fire, on a small localised scale and more dramatically and drastically in the form of regionalised bush & forest fir...
Size, space, proportion 2 Jul 2007 | 04:12 am
We often seek to buy or build the largest home we can afford ignoring considerations of good design and fitness for purpose. As we seek increasingly healthy, green solutions to our housing requirement...
