Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes

By Aaron Lubeck

Book Overview

Some 40 percent of North Americans live in homes built prior to 1940, and when it comes time to remodel or restore our older homes, homeowners and contractors can find themselves lost in a morass of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865716404
• ISBN13: 9780865716407
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A key guide for any library strong in home renovations

GREEN RESTORATION: SUSTAINABLE BUILDING AND HISTORIC HOMES offers the author's expertise as a restoration contractor and preservation consultant, providing builders and homeowners alike with a fine guide to restoring historic buildings using green practices. Room-by-room restoration descriptions offer solutions for all kinds of issues from sealing an old crawl space to replacing windows. This will be a key guide for any library strong in home renovations.

Green Restorations - a great book

This is a wonderful book full of great information, much of which had not known about before. The information is valuable for anyone but particularly regarding the practices used while restoring a historical home or building.