Hazardous waste is anything that can cause ecological problems if it is either put down the drain or sent to a regular landfill site. The five primary categories are:EXPLOSIVE -- the most common household product in this category are aerosol cans that if heated or crushed could explode and cause...
If you look at the first photo above you will see a very strange thing. I am running a vacuum hose down the backside of a toilet.In the second photo you see what I caught with that vacuum hose, a little ball of polystyrene.In the third photo you see where that little white ball belongs, on the i...
There are many products on the market designed to remove oil stains from driveways. Some of them actually work. The primary problem with them is that they basically dissolve the oil, much of it soaking even deeper into the concrete. That means you have to soak it up and attempt to not worsen ...
The manufacturers of lighting devices are constantly improving their products, constantly changing the names of things and totally confusing me if not you. So I decided to visit Sylvania's 'Light Point' display center in Toronto to try and catch up for both you and me.Durability: Some bulbs ...
In many regions of the world water is scarce or polluted and in mountainous regions the populations often live higher in the mountains than where they have to walk to in order to get water. But in many of these regions the clouds billow over the top of the mountains, keeping them shrouded mu...
Straw is considered an agricultural waste product, which makes it quite inexpensive when people want to use it as a primary house building material. Straw bales, covered in stucco have been used in the dry prairies for hundreds of years. It is now becoming a serious alternative house buildi...
Ecologix Heating Technologies Inc221 Holiday Inn Drive #2Cambridge, Ontario N3C 3T2Tel: 519-658-4330 e-Mail: info@ecologix.ca "www.ecologix.ca"I know I'm always lecturing you about heating for a cold climate, but air conditioning is very important in Canada and especially in the US. In fact, ...
We visited a demonstration solar energy house in Guelph, Ontario and Teresa Paul from Nexus Solar Corp. who designed it. In this very standard looking house we could see the bringing together of all the basic concepts of solar energy for both winter and summer. To emphasise that this did no...
This time I collected some toilets and toilet accessories that you may have never heard of.
The North Vent is a new Canadian invention designed to draw the bathroom exhaust air directly from inside the toilet bowl -- you can't get any closer to the source of the pollution. It uses a good squirre...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Adhesives Product: Contact Cement - Water Based (Solvent Free)
Temperature Limitations: Use above +18 C (+65 F)
Rain Limitations: Dry surface
Wind Limitations: High winds will accelerate sett...
