2008 April

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Just look at the price of natural gas more than doubling in the past 12 months (thanks to NYMEX for the graph). The price to you & me of natural gas to heat our homes and electricity generated by natural gas power stations will start to jump.

Take action now to reduce this summer's air conditioning costs and this winter's heating costs including installing:

- exterior solar shades
- retractable screen doors
- basement vent covers
- CFL light bulbs
- shade trees
- weather stripping for air leaks,
or..... you get my gist.

Our family is renovating every area of our home. We provide a daily tip based on our own experiences, both our mistakes for you to avoid and things that worked well for us.

Share your own adventures with us through a Comment or via email to: Dan@DailyHomeRenoTips.com

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#1 Tip - Energy Audits

We are huge fans of having an Energy Efficiency Evaluation (i.e. energy audit) conducted on any home, regardless of size or age. We learned so much from our energy audit under the ecoENERGY Residential Retrofit program.

The results from an energy audit are specific to your home, identify areas where you are wasting money and energy on your utility bills, and can help focus your renovation activities, small or large.

You can find details of the report we received on our home within our ecoENERGY page above.

Dan

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Entries from June 2008

Exterior Replacement Door - Part 21 - Enter Joe

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

In Part 20, we indicated that Brent, the replacement front door manufacturer’s representative had come over to our home and after reviewing the installation of our front door and our outstanding items, asked whether we would mind if he had his company’s own premier installation inspector examining the installation of our door.
This was on Thursday. Monday […]

Tankless Water Heater - Part 4 - The First Payback

April 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

So, we are in possession of the firm quote from Bob of Sears Home Comfort for a Rinnai natural gas tankless water heater. Bob comes in at a few dollars under $3,000.
What’s the financial payback for us at that price?
Well, remember in Part 1 our energy audit report indicated that a total of $400 of Federal […]

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Energy conservation products from the following site sponsors are used in our home:

This screen-like product fits on the outside of any size or shape of window repelling much of the sun's direct UV rays to signficantly reduce the excessive inside temperature build-up without reducing the view. This will dramatically reduce your air conditioning costs.

The cost? Under $3 per square foot.

We have written a series of articles with many pictures on our experiences installing this product and show how it reduced the reading of the temperature gauge in our family room by 15 degrees F, starting with Part 1 - the Need.

We are extremely pleased with EZ Snap solar shades and believe this simple to install energy saving product can work for you as well.

Click on the graphic above to access the manufacturer's web site to learn more. If you place an order using the EZ Snap Referral # in the graphic above to receive a 5% discount for visitors to our site. However, you must remember to enter the Referral number above when you place order ... they may not remind you about it if you forget.

Dreamscreens is a retractable screen ideal for exterior front or back doors, single or French Doors, in- or out-swinging, that you don’t want hidden behind bulky old-fashioned screen doors.

Where is the energy conservation?

Having professional looking, easy to install, screens the full width and length of our front and back doors will provide significant cross-ventilation, to reduce our air conditioning use in the spring, summer and fall, thus reducing the size of our electricity bills and carbon footprint.

We are writing a series of articles with many pictures on the installation of retractable screen doors in our home, starting with Retractable Screens - Part 1 - the Need

Click on the Dreamscreens logo above to learn more about this product directly from the manufacturer's web site.

Replacement Front Door - Update

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Good News! Today, April 11, 2008, we received word that the door manufacturer and the retailer have agreed to not only redo the installation but also to provide a new front door (rather than simply removing the current door and re-installing it). We are VERY appreciative of this situation.

Another Update - Friday June 13th Today the replacement door for the initial replacement door was installed. It is a much better door and much improved installation. We will be writing several articles (with pictures over the coming days and weeks ahead comparing the first to this second installation to help you become aware for what to be on the look out for should you decide to have your front door installed on your home. We will even talk about the post-installation customer care we received after this second installation.

How did we arrive at this situation? We will tell you in future articles as part of our Exterior Replacement Door series. To start at the beginning of this series, simply select this link to Exterior Replacement Door - Part 1 - The Ad in the Paper .

Dan

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Exterior Replacement Door - Part 21 - Enter Joe

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