You and your family deserve a healthy house and this book will show you how you can have one. In it, you’ll learn: 
• Why many houses make people sick. • Why the air indoors is much worse than it is outdoors. • Why carpeting and kitchen cabinets can be unhealthy. • How your furnace can be dangerous to your health. • How to select healthier building products. • How tight construction can be a healthy idea. • How to properly ventilate houses. • What you can do if you live in an unhealthy house. • How to reduce your exposure to electromagnetic fields. • What to do about lead, asbestos, radon, and mold. 
This 2001 4th edition contains contributions, in the form of sidebars, from 50 healthy house professionals from across North America.

The Healthy House: How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure a sick one

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bower, John

Home Improvement & Design

Healthy House Inst

Discusses health hazards in the home; explains how furniture, appliances, and household products can be sources of air pollution; and offers advice on locating less-toxic cleaning and personal care items

The Healthy Household: A Complete Guide for Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment

Bower, Lynn Marie

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Among the various healthy housing books, The Healthy House Answer Book by John and Lynn Bower is something a little different. While the rest of the offerings in this field are thick, very comprehensive volumes, this is a smaller book in both size and depth--sort of a "pocket healthy housing guidebook." While covering the major concerns anyone would have about all aspects of construction and maintenance, all the information is presented in a very concise Q and A format. With subject chapters and a complete index, this is a great introductory book for anyone interested in the subject.

The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 Most Commonly Asked Questions

John Bower

Lynn Marie Bower

At last...a book that takes all the mystery out of ventilation! Understanding Ventilation is the only book that covers all aspects of exchanging the air in houses: infiltration, equipment selection, design, heat-recovery ventilators, sizing, costs, controls, whole-house filters, distribution, and possible problems that a ventilation system can cause--all in easy-to-understand language.

Understanding Ventilation: How to Design, Select, and Install Residential Ventilation Systems

How you put your house together is just as important as the materials you choose. Healthy House Building takes you step-by-step through the construction of a Model Healthy House. With over 200 photos and illustrations, as well as a complete set of detailed construction drawings, Healthy House Building shows you everything you need to know to build a healthy house. While your house probably won't look like the one in this book, the important how-to information necessary to build or remodel in a healthy manner can be applied to all houses. This second edition contains updated addresses for the suppliers of materials used in the Model Healthy House.

Healthy House Building

Bower, who acquired multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) two decades ago, explains health concerns associated with common household products and equipment, and describes products and sources for healthier cleaning, personal care, bedding, furniture, improving indoor air and water, and reducing risk from electromagnetic fields. She also discusses safer alternatives for decorating, clothing, appliances, and hobbies. Of interest to those with allergies and chemical sensitivities. The author edits a newsletter for those with MCS, and has written two previous books on healthy households. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Creating a Healthy Household: The Ultimate Guide for Healthier, Safer, Less-Toxic Living

Takes a step-by-step approach to the design and construction of a model house that minimizes indoor air pollution from asbestos, lead, and many more obscure sources, both during the building process and once inhabited. Includes a detailed set of house plans and plentiful helpful b&amp;w photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Healthy House Building for the New Millennium: A Design & Construction Guide

Arts & Photography

Architecture

The Healthy House: How to Buy One, How to Build One, How to Cure a Sick One

Business & Money

Real Estate

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