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Concrete floor / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Insulated Radiant Floor ICF Foam Forms Heated with Air
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Air-heated radiant floor slab foam forming systems

...floors for added comfort. What you don’t see a lot of, are floors heated with air. Electric wire radiant floor heating © Ecohome How to make air-heated floors work: Since the first forced-air heating systems were introduced into homes, there have been attempts to distribute that heat through flooring sys...

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Reduced carbon concrete patio blocks and CMU
Permeable laneways and patios

Reducing emissions with CO² cured-concrete

...concrete also hardens in less than 24 hours compared to conventional concrete, which takes several days to sufficiently harden. Low-emission concrete blocks © Solidia Technologies® The end result is a 70% reduction in the total ecological footprint of conventional concrete, including 60 to 80% less water consumed. An...

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Polished concrete floors and counters
Paints, finishes and natural coatings

Finishing concrete floors with silicate densifiers

...flooring option for anyone with chemical sensitivities who wants a beautiful and durable eco-friendly floor in their passive solar home - especially as built correctly with sufficient subfloor insulation a concrete slab on grade makes a perfect thermal battery for solar heat. Sealing concrete floors: Raw concrete is ve...

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Eco-friendly & Healthy Flooring is best for Green Homes
Flooring and stairs

Eco-Friendly flooring material options for green homes

...floor as you will ever find; excellent medium for radiant floor heat; almost all homes will have a concrete floor if not as the main floor, certainly as a basement, and polishing an existing floor is among the cheapest finished floors you can get. Cons: High GHGs during production; concrete itself it is very durable, b...

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