With over 200 photos and illustrations, as well as a complete set of detailed construction drawings, Healthy House Building for the New Millennium shows you everything you need to know to build a healthy house. While your home probably won't look like the one featured in this book, the important how-to information necessary to build or remodel in a healthy manner can be applied to any house. This third edition has been expanded to contain an update at the end of each chapter with new building products, techniques, options, and web sites - and there's a brand new chapter about the author's own new healthy home.
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Bower, a house builder and founder of the Healthy House Institute, has created an in-depth guide to building a healthier house. Here he takes readers, step-by-step, through the construction of a safe, environmentally sound house. Filled with useful information, this book will undoubtedly be used to increase the safety of many new homes. Unfortunately, the book contains an overwhelming number of warnings about commonly used materials and techniques. Moreover, some of his warnings seem overdrawn: few builders would disagree that lead paint and out-gassing of formaldehyde from manufactured wood products are hazardousAbut the aromas released by oak or asphalt roofing shingles? Likewise, his interesting section on home-based pollutants would carry more weight if he had provided footnotes. Photos, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography supplement the text. Somewhat preachy but sure to be of interest to those who share Bower's fears; public libraries with larger building collections should consider this.AJonathan N. Hershey, Akron-Summit Cty. P.L., Akron, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
JOHN BOWER is the owner of The Healthy House Institute, and has been involved with healthy house construction as a designer, builder, writer, and consultant since 1984. He has personally built four healthy houses for chemically sensitive people, and consulted on the construction of many others across the country. John is the author of scores of articles in magazines ranging from Custom Builder, Journal of Light Construction, and Indoor Air Review, to East West, Greenkeeping, and Mother Earth News. He has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs, and is a regular speaker at housing conferences in the U.S. and Canada. In 1991 John was awarded a Professional Achievement Award by Professional Builder magazine for "healthy house advocacy." He has been named one of the "Indoor Environment Power 50" - a Who's Who in the Indoor Environment Industry by Indoor Environment Review, and one of "60 Influential People, Products, and Events" in the home building industry by Professional Builder magazine.
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Here is the description of the house that the John Bower build to help his wife, who has MCS, recover. It discusses things they considered and what they actually used in THEIR OWN HOUSE. It also gives contact information so you can buy the products yourself. It is written by one of the experts in the area of healthy house building.I have used the book numerous times to help investigate safe building materials and methods for my own house. I too have a wife with MCS.
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