Posts tagged with "tiles"


  • Jan 18, 2025

    Pump House Roof

    It is now old news that we decided to go with an eco friendly construction for our pump house. An eco friendly house may mean different things to different people. A truly eco friendly house is the one that is built with recyclable or reused building materials from another construction etc, leaving as much of a small carbon footprint as possible. While we are not into that extreme, we wanted to try to use sustainable material where possible and not increase footprint by transporting them from far off places just for the sake of recycling. Once such decision we had to take was for the roof material. Initially we were considering the regular cement roof. Then, once we decided to go with eco friendly bricks, we wondered if we should go for eco friendly roof like Mangalore tiles.

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