Last month, Bolton Council swiftly rejected footballer Gary Neville's plans for an eco-friendly, multi-million pound home that we told you about in January (here).
Despite opposition from locals and planning committees, Neville's bid to build the floral shaped house seemed pretty admirable; you don't have to be good at maths to work out that a premiership footballer's motivation probably isn't saving pennies on gas and electricity.
Few details of Neville's not-quite-successful plans to go green have been released, but we have a look at some of the things his £8 million pad might have included to inspire your own building, renovating and redecorating efforts. See the gallery below.
Timber Frames
If, like me, you spend most of your evenings watching repeated episodes of Grand Designs, you can probably recite most of Kevin McCloud’s words of wisdom about timber frames. If, for some unimaginable reason, you have something more interesting to do with your evenings then I’ll fill you in; Timber frames are non-toxic, renewable and waste efficient and can be insulated with eco-friendly materials such as recycled newspaper or sheep’s wool.
Do the math. Deciding to build an eco-friendly house will cost you on average five to twenty percent more over the cost of standard construction.
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It may well do, but you should also consider at what environmental cost a non eco-friendly house will come
Wood is required to make a timber framed house for which trees will have to be cut. Then how can these be eco-friendly....?
Timber is the only renewable construction material. It is important to choose a company which has good ethics, but generally speaking, most companies use timber from managed forests, replanting at least as many trees as they use.
There are other factors that make timber an eco-friendly build material, but I think the above answers your question. I hope this helps.
Give me some tips about this topic, because i want this, and looked the timber frames, it's very heavy.
It is the need of the hour to build such houses so that we may keep our environment safe and secure.
There are also a litany of home furnishings that can be used to accommodate this effort. eSaleRugs.com offers a variety of eco-friendly flooring. Some are made of seagrass and others of wood. There is currently a promotion which offers an instant 20% off and a $50 Amex Card for purchases of $300 or more.
Its very nice Eco-friendly home.Everyone want to be build the eco-friendly home.
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If we do not start building eco friendly homes, our planet will be in trouble very soon. We should take as an example the work of students from scandinavian countries, which are light years ahead of us in this type of construction. They just won a world competion for eco friendly homes in Washington DC