Answers to All Your Nagging Green Home Questions

I like the convenience of an attached garage, but aren’t detached garages healthier?

Is it all right to use vinyl siding on my new house?

Are electric furnaces and water heaters inherently healthier?

Is wallpaper a healthy product?

Wood floors are always a healthy flooring choice, right?

Antique furniture was made before particleboard and other synthetic materials became popular, so it’s healthy?

How do I deal with mold?

It is more important than ever to create a healthy home for you, your family and the planet. Trying to find answers to your pressing questions and eco-curiosities is often easier said than done - but not anymore. Building Green TV has teamed up with the Healthy House Institute to provide you with valuable, straight-forward insight into all aspects of building and maintaining a sustainable home.

Based in Idaho and featuring an advisory board of nearly 50 professionals, the Healthy House Institute operates with one main goal: "to be the most comprehensive educational resource available for creating healthier homes." HHI has published an indispensable book called The Healthy House Answer Book, which includes answers to 133 green home questions. Instead of a thick, very comprehensive volume, this is a smaller book in both size and depth--sort of a "pocket healthy housing guidebook."

As part of our partnership with the Healthy House Institute, Building Green TV will be featuring excepts from this revolutionary book in the coming weeks. Including topics such as basic house construction, foundations, framing, plumbing, ventilation, air filters, flooring and more, we are delighted to bring you the insight of nearly 15 years of tireless work on the part of HHI.