With a few
product
substitutions
and attention
to detail, any
new house
can be made
healthier at
modest extra
cost
by Clint Good
As a builder and architect with a
strong interest in nontoxic homes,
I've worked for many people who
cannot tolerate some of the 500 or so
chemicals present in the average
house. These chemically hypersensitive
people require homes built to
extreme and often expensive specifications.
But there is another group of
people, not necessarily "chemically
sensitive," who simply want to stay
healthy. They want a reasonably
priced "generic" healthy house —
one that incorporates as many
healthy products as possible, but
without significantly raising the
costs of construction.
In 1986, I decided to design and
build such a house on spec. The
result was a 2,800-square-foot
colonial with