"Healthy interior finishing"

Healthy interior finishing / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Walls and ceilings - interior surfaces

Wood Ceilings or drywall - how to choose your ceiling material & what's the difference in cost?

...Finishing a ceiling with drywall would cost about $500 in materials for drywall, tape and mud compound. It would take two workers between a half-day and a day to install the drywall, one worker 3 days to do 3 coats of mud, and 1 day of sanding. That’s a total of about $2,400 for material and labour, but you haven’t app...

Flooring and stairs

Eco-Friendly Flooring material options for Green-Homes

...finishing as it did to install and that’s certainly true if you finish it with polyurethane. applying varnish to a solid hardwood floor © The Spruce.com After installation you will need to sand it and for a nice finish that can take a lot of time. This is something you can do yourself. You can rent a sander from mo...