Re: Re: Green Building Solutions

[Guest guest]

> Hey

> be carefull with green building solutions, an architect here told me

> a mold sensitive woman decided a green building would be good for

> her- he said 3 months into the project she could not even visit the

> job site and was never able to live in the house- he said the

> problem is that alot of the green products are inherently moldy- and

> that the green building people do not understand anything about

> mold. At a building convention I talked to some green building guys-

> they were suprised at the depth of knowledge I had about building

> supplies and wanted to hook up with me- they knew nothing about mold

I 2nd that concern. I've been researching green building and products and some

of the things are recycled wood products from other uses. I just read about

tables made from old wine vats - can you imagine the mold spores and toxins

embedded in that thing? Also, there's other furniture and wood flooring made

from wood from old, decayed buildings - that's also got to be embedded with tons

of mold/toxins.

I'm reading Dr. Rea's book on building a healthy house for the chemically

sensitive:

http://www.ehcd.com/books/home_building_designing.html

That's likely a better model for folks like us to follow. It's the approach I'm

taking for my new home. For flooring, we've used tile throughout.

To me, this situation is akin to the health food store that tell folks with

celiac disease/gluten intolerance to eat spelt. I also noticed at Whole Foods

yesterday that they had a nice rack of gluten-free snack bars that was right

next to a stack of whole grain breads. Since I am so sensitive, being that

close to wheat makes me feel sick.

B.