The Healthy House: How to Buy One, How to Build One, How to Cure a Sick One - Softcover

Bower, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963715690 ISBN 13: 9780963715692

Publisher: Healthy House Inst, 2000

Synopsis

You and your family deserve a healthy house and this book will show you how you can have one. In it, you’ll learn:

· Why many houses make people sick.
· Why the air indoors is much worse than it is outdoors.
· Why carpeting and kitchen cabinets can be unhealthy.
· How your furnace can be dangerous to your health.
· How to select healthier building products.
· How tight construction can be a healthy idea.
· How to properly ventilate houses.
· What you can do if you live in an unhealthy house.
· How to reduce your exposure to electromagnetic fields.
· What to do about lead, asbestos, radon, and mold.

This 2001 4th edition contains contributions, in the form of sidebars, from 50 healthy house professionals from across North America.

About this title

From the Publisher:

We are pleased to be publishing this greatly expanded, updated third edition of The Healthy House by John Bower. Since the first edition came out back in 1989, this single book has not only expanded the awareness about the problems of common, but unhealthy, building materials and practices, but more importantly, it has offered real solutions in easy-to-understand language with listings of hundreds of safer alternative products. In short, we feel this is one book that is essential for anyone wanting to be a truly informed homeowner or housing (designer, contractor, builder) professional.

About the Author:

JOHN BOWER has been involved with healthy house construction since 1984. His other books include Healthy House Building for the New Millennium, The Healthy House Answer Book, and Understanding Ventilation. He has also written scores of magazine articles and given dozens of presentations at builders’ conferences throughout North America. John is the recipient of a Professional Achievement Award from Professional Builder magazine, which named him one of “60 Influential People, Products, and Events” in the home building industry. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Indoor Environment Connections and was listed as one of the “Indoor Environment Power 50,” a Who’s Who in the Indoor Environment Industry, by Indoor Environment Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Healthy House Inst
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0963715690
• ISBN 13: 9780963715692
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 445