Welcome to our newsletter.
As summer dwindles and autumn looms around the corner, we tend to shift our focus from exteriors to interiors. Home cooking, warm and aromatically wafting from the kitchen, beckon us to the dining table. Children start back to school and Bay Area trees begin tinging their leaves yellow, orange and red. Have a lovely September.
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Lisa and Steve Schliff | Owners, G.C. License #484793 Fully licensed, insured and bonded, Green Building Certified
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 Bathroom remodel in Albany
Green Bathroom Remodel
While You're Updating the Fixtures, Don't Forget about Water, Moisture, and Ventilation Issues
Bathrooms are often among the smallest rooms in the house, but they are rich with opportunity in a green remodel. No matter what the design goals for the renovation, two practical essentials are managing water and steam and selecting durable materials that are made to handle what's often a tough environment.
Updating the bathroom's ventilation can retard mold and mildew growth.
There are several reasons a client may decide to remodel a bathroom. The most common are a desire to upgrade the fixtures in the room, to fix leaks and water damage, and to increase or reconfigure the room's floorplan.
Active water leaks and a lack of mechanical ventilation should be among the top priorities for correction. When changes are more than skin deep, improving the building's envelope with an effective air barrier, vapor retarder and adequate insulation all should be part of the plan. Because humidity levels tend to be very high in a bathroom, extra care should be taken to minimize the risk of moisture accumulation and condensation in wall cavities.
While addressing those issues it's important to open a discussion about bathroom ventilation and how a proper fan system can improve the air quality and the longevity of not
just the bathroom but the whole house by exhausting moist warm air that can promote mold and mildew growth.
*from GreenBuildingAdvisor.com |
Diningroom remodel in El Cerrito
What Is Your Blog I.Q.?
I ask this in honor of fellow singer Betsy Reeve, who seemed overwhelmed when I asked her to read my blog. I ask this not punitively but as an opportunity.
I rolled up my sleeves and started blogging at the beginning of 2009, and now it has become such a regular activity that I easily forgot with what trepidation I waded in. If I had a dollar for everybody who has asked me, "How does one blog?", I would have a little nest egg of dollars.
Getting There
Here are the steps for my newsletter readers to take to read my blog: Go to your browser homepage and in the address window, type in: www.onthebeamblog.blogspot.com. Then click on "Go" and voila! You may begin reading my blogs.
Here is another route to my blog: Click on my website link in this newsletter (upper right corner, under "Free Trip To Our Website"). When you get to our website, you will see a button that says "Read Lisa's Building Blogs". Click on that and voila! Start reading my blogs.
Why I Blog
Why do I blog? My blogs are more of a casual journalistic report about what's happening within the company. We are remodeling our diningroom, and I wanted to share that along with several photos such as the one above. That blog is titled "Empathy For The Level". My most recent blog is an announcement about a new feature on our website, "What Will It Cost". You can use this feature to actually arrive at a rough estimate of your remodeling project.
Please Comment
Once you have read a blog entry, you can make a comment. At the end of the article is a tiny icon, a pencil, with the word "Comment" next to it. Click on Comment and a window will pop up for you to write your thoughts. I welcome comments and look forward to hearing from you. I might even respond to your comment with one of my own.
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Cooking with Soul: Solar Cookers"
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