How Wood Fires and Ducted Heating are Bad for your Health and Why Hydronic Heating can assist in Healing Hydrotherm Heating where instrumental in building an allergy-free, eco-friendly home, especially when what I needed most was a literal breath of fresh air! Cost can be a huge consideration; however, so can health, especially when good health has been missing from your life … [Read more...] about Why Hydrotherm Hydronic Heating is a Breath of Fresh Air (Part II)
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Radiant Heat Fights Allergies with Hydrotherm Hydronic Heating (Part I)
Hydrotherm Hydronic Heating crew came out to the Build And Eco-Friendly, Allergy-Free House (BEAH) project to do stage I of the fit-out for our radiant heating system: All 2 floors. Everything had been planned with the usual military precision and attention to detail: two day busy days! (And to top it off, we had Jacob Maggs, our masterfully-EMF aware electrician on the site … [Read more...] about Radiant Heat Fights Allergies with Hydrotherm Hydronic Heating (Part I)
Hydrotherm Hydronic heating for our Eco-friendly, Allergy Free House (Part III)
Hydrotherm's Rough in Process It took two days to complete the 'rough in' process, the plumbers basically ran, from the Bosche boiler, 25 inch pink Rehau piping, into 20 down to 16 into the chrome copper, where it comes out the wall, where it meets chrome and brass pipes going into the walls and outside, ready for the boiler. The black pipe usually used for plumbing can't be … [Read more...] about Hydrotherm Hydronic heating for our Eco-friendly, Allergy Free House (Part III)
McMansions for People with MCS and CIRS
Why is this house taking so long? [Update: our house is finished. More coming soon] It's taking us a an extended amount of time, more than 12 months now, to build our Allergy-free House. A good friend who built their own safe house, and has now recovered, told us, "Take your time. It's better to get everything right, rather than make a mistake causing your house to be … [Read more...] about McMansions for People with MCS and CIRS
Building Products/Tradespeople Reviews
Hey there! Just a short post to let you know that all the services and building products I use that work out for me and don't impact on my health will be reviewed on this blog. So far, I've had some positive experiences with tradespeople and businesses that I'm so grateful for that I feel it's only right to pass their names and details on. There's my wonderful, thoughtful … [Read more...] about Building Products/Tradespeople Reviews