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TOXIN FREE INDOOR LIVING - DESIGN & BUILD
To Create a Healthy Indoor Environment, we chose not-toxic interior materials. Our goal is to protect you and your family from environmental toxins and carcinogens, found indoors, that can suppress your immune system and cause cancer. According to Columbia University School of Public Health, 95% of Cancer is caused by Diet and Environment - Click To Watch Video
For our “Green Home” we used the highest-grade lumber and trusses. We built our patios with solid 12” logs and 6x12” lintels.  We contracted professional framing crew that frames a medium size house for a day. Well. . . 7 weeks later they were still doing final touches on our project house.

Engineered lumber of any sort was banned from our construction site. Every stud was cut exactly to the needed size and no finger-joints were used through the entire process of framing.  The lintels, over the doors and windows openings, were made from solid 6x12” pieces of wood. Some of our exterior walls are 12 and even 18” and the rest of them are built from 2x6” studs. The final results were stunning and pleasing to the whole team.



JUST FEW OF THE FEATURES AND UPGRADES
                 FOUND IN OUR PROJECT HOME


If you think these chemicals are not betraying your health, think again! Actually Indoor Air Pollution can be 10 times worse than L.A. on a bad day, no matter where you live. Thanks to the wonders of modern chemistry, you’re being poisoned as you read this. Right now, for instance, your walls are outgassing formaldehyde and 1,1,1, trichloroethane, which cause flu-like symptoms: headache, nausea, fatigue and sore throat. Your carpet is releasing an alphabet soup of unpronounceable compounds, most of which chew away at your immune system and make you feel run-down. Many of these pollutants are “volatile organic compounds”. That means they are chemically unstable. They turn into gas, or combine with other chemicals. Then, you breathe them. And they are everywhere. They’re in cabinets. Wood finishes. Paints, stains, and varnishes. Cleaning supplies. Anything made of plastic or vinyl. According to Columbia University School of Public Health, 95% of Cancer is caused by Diet and Environment.

Outgassing is like evaporation, only with solid materials. It happens because even the densest solid building materials aren’t really solid. There are spaces between the molecules. And molecules can work their way into the air, just like they do in evaporation. All of which would be fine if the evaporating molecules were, say, water molecules.Unfortunately, they’re usually something a lot more noxious. Like formaldehyde molecules!


They’re also constantly bubbling away, into the air you breathe. To make matters worse, today’s energy efficient buildings seal in all the toxic gasses so they accumulate, creating a toxic stew. Plywood and Particleboard are loaded with acetone and formaldehyde. These toxins evaporate, or “outgas” causing flu-like symptoms. Polyurethane wood finishes contain 2-ethoxyethanol, a chronic toxin that builds up until you reach your limit.

Most stain, varnishes and sealers contain acetone, lead, methanol, and (take a deep breath) pentachlorophenol. On second thought, don’t take that deep breath. The distinctive smell of paint is actually diethyl phthalate, and a host of other compounds that causes nausea, dizziness, and severe headaches. Everywhere you look, there’s formaldehyde. Even where you can’t look, there’s still formaldehyde. Besides irritating your nose, throat, and lungs, formaldehyde is a known carcinogen. Ahhh, that new carpet smell. But what are you smelling? 1,3-butadiene, 1,2-dichlorobenzene, toluene, 1,1,1 trichloroethane, and number of other narcotics. Yes narcotics!

Why are these dangerous compounds inside my home anyway?  Well, because they’re cheap. And because no one has the time or resources to study the long-term affects of even the 50,000 most commonly used chemicals (there is about 85,000 chemicals used in America ). Therefore, there’s no toxicity data for 4 out of 5 of them!  Actually, one thing is known. Some are fatal. The EPA estimates that indoor air pollution kills thousands of people each year. Looking for cure? The Cure is in The Cause.
WHY GREEN HOME?

There is no home, office, institution or manufacturing site where toxins aren’t present. Plastics that continually outgas potentially deadly toxins are found in paints, wall-paper, plywood, lumber, kitchen cabinets, sofas, bedroom furniture, home furnishings, plastic baby bottles, toys, car seats, mattresses, computers, automobile dashboards, carpet backing, cosmetics, clothes and much more. Our homes are built to be more airtight and this tends to increase pollutants and contaminants. Our homes today contain high outagassing synthetics such as dyed nylons, polyesters, foam rubber beds, chairs and floor mats. Any chemical that you can smell makes its way into the bloodstream and eventually reaches every organ of your body. The average carpet outgases over a dozen chemicals. In fact, Anderson Labs demonstrated the health effects of new carpeting; they placed a little patch of carpet in the bottom of a glass jar with some mice. In the morning the mice were dead. Industrial, incinerator and transportation exhaust are the unavoidable dominants of outside air pollutants, while plastics and volatile organic hydrocarbons are among the hundreds of indoor air pollutants such as PBDEs, PHTHALATES, PESTICIDES, PFAs, PCBs, DIOXINS, BISPHENOLS, HEAVY METALS ...