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RECLAIMED WOOD By: greening homes

October 8, 2012

Green Materials, Waste Diversion

While adjusting openings in the exterior brick walls for new windows, we carefully deconstructed the existing headers. The salvaged wood, approximately 1.75″ thick douglas fir with a wonderful patina and character-infusing defects, were repurposed as rustic wood accent pieces and used throughout the home. Our carpenters carefully selected pieces with the right combination of workability and character to creat rustic window […]

Greenest City – Rainwater Harvesting System By: greening homes

August 10, 2008

Announcements, Community, Green Materials

In July we worked with Greenest City to build a rain water harvesting system. Greenest City is an award-winning charitable organization that grows local organic food, youth leaders and healthy, sustainable communities with a focus on Toronto’s Parkdale-High Park neighbourhood. We facilitated the building of a rammed earth bag support structure (pad) for the new rain water […]