Heating

How to Air Seal a Chimney Frame?

May 6, 2012
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  Around when I wrote this article, I was writing up an audit of a Cape-style house. From that, I wrote about air sealing and insulating knee walls, which may be the largest common air leak most homeowners are aware of. Leaks around the chimney chase may be the largest air leak almost no one [...]

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Green, Energy Efficient and Money Saving Links

April 16, 2012
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  Say what?!? Solar electric spray paint? That’s right…paint that generates solar electricity. Electric car doesn’t have enough range *bang* electric paint. Smart phone is dying *bang* electric paint. Technology can get us a little giddy every once in a while but this feels positively Jetsonian. The List 10 Tips for When You’re Remodeling Your [...]

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How to Seal Air Ducts

March 25, 2012
How to Seal Air Ducts

  One of the most underappreciated and most easily fixed problems in homes is that of poorly sealed duct work. Homes which control their interior climate with ducted air systems can only do so as effectively as the distribution system moves the conditioned air. If you seal the return and supply air ducts, it can [...]

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The Difficulties In Heating Ranch Style Houses

December 13, 2011
The Difficulties In Heating Ranch Style Houses

  I don’t have many energy audits with ranch style houses despite their popularity. I suspect it has to do with their compact size and correspondingly reasonable heating bills. If it isn’t costing a bundle to heat, where’s the pressure to have an audit? However I find that owners of ranch style houses call about [...]

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Should I Install Hot Water Pipe Insulation?

November 30, 2011
Should I Install Hot Water Pipe Insulation

  Funny aside: I was looking for a clear photo of hot water pipe insulation. I went through about 25 audit files and nothing. Every time I found a photo, it was unusable. Eventually, I grabbed a camera and went to my basement and snapped a photo. So that’s my basement. Notice the XPS insulation [...]

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