Many people use recycled materials to build or renovate their homes. This is a great saving in cost for them and it also helps to save the earth's resources. Sometimes you can get timber pieces that are brand new, but because they are excess they will simply be thrown away. Home building materials need not cost the earth. Going green with home building materials simply means using timber and other products that have been recycled. In fact, just because other people have thrown it out does not mean that there is anything wrong with it. They may simply be renovating and have decided to change from one product to another.
And it is not only from home renovations that such timber and other building materials can be sourced. Construction sites have quite a bit of waste that is thrown into the dumpster and taken out to go into landfill at the local tip. This is timber, tiles and many other building materials that have been over-ordered and are now excess to the job in hand. Builders usually over order so that there will be no problems with replacing things such as tiles that may get broken. Very often it is impossible to get an exact match, so over-ordering is considered cheaper than having to throw the lot away because you were a few tiles short.
Timber excess sometimes comes from off-cuts but often you can also get full lengths of timber that are ideal for the home handyman. There is excess here because builders buy timber in set amounts and even if they only use half of it, the full amount must be purchased.
Using home building materials from recycled sources means that the earth's resources have been saved. It is not only the trees that now don't need to be cut down, but the fuel and cost of cutting them up and transporting them that has been saved.
by Melanie Cath
submitted 2010-01-28
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