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Green building materials and sustainable practices for home improvement are not just for big companies. Any homeowner or even apartment owner can get home improvement and repair materials that don't pollute or cause harm when inhaled, touched, or ingested. In Seattle, there are a number of options for getting great, environmentally sound materials. And when you buy from these companies, you are sending them a strong message that you approve.
Formerly the Environmental Home Center, Ecohaus has a wide range of environmentally sensitive products for all facets of home repair, improvement, and building. For example, the glues usually used in construction for laying tiles is terribly toxic. You wouldn't even think of using it indoors with the windows closed on a rainy day - with a baby in the house! Well, that is exactly what I did a few years ago and their wasn't even a smell associated with the products I used. Ecohaus is having a 70 percent off sale going on now.
Painting can be a real toxic nightmare. Not only are most paints harmful, but when they evaporate, they give off "volatile organic compounds" (VOC) that make their way into the atmosphere to do damage when breathed. A number of paint companies are now making reduced-VOC and VOC-free products. You can find them at Ecohaus and at many paint stores around town.
Oregon-based Rodda has its own brand of low-VOC paint, Horizon. Miller Paint (millerpaint.com), with stores throughout Washington and Oregon, makes the VOC-free Acro Pure and produces the Devine (devinecolor.com) color lines. Even Home Depot now carries a line of low-VOC paints.
For more Info about environmentally sensitive paints, visit EarthEasy.com.
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