Grenier Goes Green
We can’t believe we missed this! According to a Newsweek article from last month, Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who bought a house not far from Brownstoner HQ last year, has been undertaking a serious green renovation. As part of his environmentally-friendly effort, he’s been using recycled denim as wall insulation. Given what a pair of…
We can’t believe we missed this! According to a Newsweek article from last month, Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who bought a house not far from Brownstoner HQ last year, has been undertaking a serious green renovation. As part of his environmentally-friendly effort, he’s been using recycled denim as wall insulation. Given what a pair of jeans can run you these days, that could get pricey! Anyone else tried this?
Going Green [Newsweek]
A TV Star Returns to His Roots [Plenty]
Photo by Joseph Maida
Yes, wonderful and all. So very green.
But in end – how many sq. ft. per person is Mr. Granier (or many other of us) heating, cooling in his new home?Or maybe should be asking cubic ft (since we do love those high ceilings).
Plus our sub-zeros, wine-coolers, etc, etc, etc.
We can’t use hemp as insulation. My husband would burn the house down on purpose.
Habitat for Humanity is using this insulation on their NYC projects (I think it was donated by a clothing company).
Hemp is great for insullation too and you can SMOKE it!
We used this insulation in my office build-out. I think the stuff is fantastic. When we show a sample to visitors, every single person smells it, touches it to their face, or makes a comment about how nice it would be as a blanket. Also, Habitat for Humanity projects in the city use this product.
hey, this story already ran in plenty magazine…an environmental magazine. http://plentymag.com/article/11adrian
it focuses just on the actor…
yeah no kidding, boy’s boner fide hottie
He can have my jeans.
I looked at Ultratouch from Bonded Logic (the product you see sticking out of the walls in the photo above),
http://www.bondedlogic.com
but I am going to use Roxul stone wool insulation from the Rockwool company on my house.
http://www.roxul.com/sw34066.asp
As fun as it is to say that Ultratouch is from recycled blue jeans, it’s really 85% from post industrial fibers that never made it onto someones butt. That is still a comendable way to make insulation, but at the end of the day, no matter how many chemicals you spray on cotton/denim fibers to make them fireproof, they are still cotton and denim. They may not be paper, but in a frame house (as the person in the photo and I both have) you can’t take any chances. Mineral wool has twice the fire resistance of treated denim / cotton blends, and is just as eco-friendly. My house gets to stone wool.