[Greenbuilding] Sandi and Tom - hello!

[Allison Friedman]

Hi Sandi and Tom!

I am glad to see another Northeast-located business on the site.  Please
feel welcome to upload your company and products onto our (beta) website,
Rate It Green (www.rateitgreen.com)!  I know I had trouble locating more
sustainable cabinets myself two years ago, so I wish I had known you were
there!  I am not a builder or manufacturer myself, but I thought I would
respond because I like to connect those who are...

Rate It Green is a user-driven directory, ratings site, and community portal
for green building.  Our goals are to use information sharing to support
further industry growth, help build industry confidence and openness, and to
offer a place for community - as this wonderful forum does.  Our key thought
was letting people rate products and offer comments so that others might
learn from their experiences.  We just don't want to see knowledge lost, and
we hope that green building knowledge won't all become proprietary and stuck
in firm libraries somewhere...  This forum gives me great hope that this
would not happen.  I could not find the information I needed to green my
project in 2005, and I wanted people to have an easier time, especially
those who are new to green building.  Just yesterday, I saw a well known
writer advising people to Google and use Wikipedia if they want to learn
more about green building.  That's unfortunate.  Even without my site adding
ratings and user-advice to the mix, there are some clearly great resources
depending on people's needs.  And we happily point to them on our site (we
will be adding more links soon - our new programmer is giving us the
capability to enter them ourselves, which will speed things up).    

One big disclaimer - Our site is a beta.  While we perfect the site, we are
happy to work with those kind lead users who are able to download what they
know to help and teach others (and who can be a bit patient with the
system).  Companies have also been entering their products and services
(registration is free - 100 companies and counting, plus the 500 we entered
as a start with "temporary" listings.  These have the most basic information
- we want companies to control their own content) so that users will be able
to find them once the system is fully operational.  We appreciate everyone's
time (and all entered information goes right into the permanent database,
even if the graphics aren't 100% yet), but I also can tell you everything
will be 100% this fall if you'd like to wait - and the ratings screens will
be newly redone by June 15th.  We have a West Coast Green show deadline to
meet, and I don't intend to miss...)    


-Allison Friedman
Rate It Green

-----Original Message-----
From: greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Tom Young
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:53 PM
To: greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [BULK] [Greenbuilding] Hello to all
Importance: Low

Hello to all -- I just wanted to drop a note to introduce us as new
members. 

There are several posts in the archives that I found quite interesting.
The one of greatest interest was on OAK timbers. 

About 20 years ago I lived in a 140 yr old farm house in North Carolina
to restore.  The house was built of wood harvested, sawn and air dried
on the property.  The beams and floor joists in the house were white
oak. When I purchased the home we had an inspection that to our surprise
found only two problems with the old timbers -- a 1/2 inch area of dry
rot on a step at the bottom of the stairs into the root cellar and a 2
sq inch section of a beam that sat on top of the stacked stone
foundation. 

Of course, the building inspector and the bank officers had fits.  We
replaced both sections of wood.  Replacing the plate on the foundation
was the most challenging exercise.  We had to cut out an 8 foot section
and then bolt three 2 x 10 timbers together to fabricate the
replacement.  Today the 8 ft section we removed is a mantel on a field
stone fireplace.  I'm sorry we were forced to take those measures but
the beam does add to the over all aesthetic and serves as a great
conversation piece.  So do the hand forged nails we recovered during the
process.

If this is not considered off topic -- I would love to hear from the
rest of the members on the list -- what are your areas of practice in
green building?  Our family owns a cabinet manufacturing company in New
Hampshire (USA).  We manufacture FSC certified solid wood (pine and
poplar) cabinetry and built-ins.

Sandi and Tom

   
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