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Green Building Principle #4
Interior Air Quality
Green Building
is the Quality of the Interior Air. The
government banded the use of lead based paints
inside homes decades ago. However, there are
other things in your home that could still be
making you and your family sick and these things
are releasing high volumes of VOCs (Volatile
Organic Compounds) into the air.
These are
things like glues, paints and finishes. Even the
chemicals that went into the manufacture of your
carpeting. When you
paint the interior of your new Green Built Home
you should hardly smell the fumes of the paint
if you were using low VOC paint. Have you ever
painted a room in your present home only to find
it difficult to spend the night that following
night?
Back in the 80s
builders used a Styrofoam like sheathing to help
insulate the walls. These homes could now very
well be out-gassing formaldehyde fumes. If the
home was to burn, those walls will release
dangerous smoke fumes. Some of these gases could
even be considered a carcinogen.
A
Green Built Home is a Healthy Home.
Check out Insulation for Life (my good
friends).
Continue to Principle #5 - Energy Efficiency
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