No waste remodeling project
From GLGI
This is our "sustainable thinking" for the Brennan's master bath remodeling project done in September 2007.
Green Aspects
- certified european Green Label tile
- dual flush toilets...lowest water usage in the industry... replace 2.5 gal toilets
- Pittsburgh low VOC paint
- compact florescent bulbs
- Energy Star fan...high cf/min/kw
- purchase flow constrictor for shower head (Christine)
- Took some of the parts packing material to eBay Mailbox store for reuse.
No Waste
- Peggy told them to clean their brushes with rainbarrel water
- Reuse a 1.6 gal toilet
- Reuse copper piping
- Recycle all the metal (SOCCRA)
- wood with nails ...little reuse...pull nails (SOCCRA) .. reuse wood in A2
- fan reuse in other unit
- Recycle cardboard
- Used current tile as subfloor
Reuse Center
- Fan/light?
- 2x4's
- toilet?
Research
- old toilet .. take to reuse center...may not take...research
- drywall / dryrock ... new drywall recycling process gypsum recycling process
- insulation ...
- shower pan
- tile...very little in a shower is reusable
- Carpet protectors
Learned
- had to use new 2x4 on curb to make sure they were straight for tile. Old were bent.
Could Do Better
- Insulation...used fiberglass...didn't ask for wool or celulose
- trim paint ... not low VOC ... needed to match exactly
- toilet and tile were shipped overseas
- Adhesives and glues
