Building on our great relationship with the StopGap team, our GH crew volunteered their time to build ramps for neighbourhood businesses in the Annex. This was our biggest build yet, and all 48 ramps were constructed and primed in short order. We had five GH members out to cut, build and prime the ramps while […]
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On October 4th from 10am-4pm, you can join us for a tour of our deep energy retrofit project at 4 Beechwood Crescent as part of OSEA’s Green Energy Doors Open event. Locations that are part of the renewable energy and energy conservation movement all over the province will be open to visitors. This project has been […]
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Greening Homes was challenged by Terrell Wong of Stone’s Throw Design to take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Not one to shy away from a good cause, Chris rallied the team and raised $300 in donations in exchange for allowing the crew to douse him in ice-cold water on site. An entire job-site size […]
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The air tightness of residential homes in Ontario has increasingly been improved over the past few decades. According to a public 2009 study of 100 new homes, “The average leakage of current housing is 3.14 ACH50”. Of the homes in the study, detached homes registered an average air leakage of 2.82 ACH50, and attached or […]
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This past weekend was a busy time for us – one team building ramps with STOPGAP, and another at this year’s LIVE GREEN Festival. The day started out great and we met a lot of friendly people – but the rain put a damper on things in the afternoon! You might not expect to find […]
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This past Saturday we teamed up again with StopGap to build ramps for stores and businesses along the Danforth and in Leslieville. StopGap is a Toronto organization that has a DIY accessibility mandate: remove barriers for people with disabilities, one storefront at a time by building simple ramps. After building 43 ramps last year for businesses along […]
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As the early days of April began unveiling signs of spring, I packed my car, mounted my road bike to the roof rack and headed southeast for Warren, Vermont. Yestermorrow Design Build School was hosting a 4 day Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) Builders Certification course. I had found a small bed and breakfast just […]
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At our Beechwood Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) project we are experimenting with a few different methods for air sealing penetrations. The first photo shows a neoprene flashing boot (usually used for waterproofing roof penetrations) installed around our sump pump discharge. To connect the flashing boot to the primary air barrier (Sto Gold Coat on existing […]
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