2008 April

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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.

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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 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.

Believe in Global Warming? If yes, then why are you waiting to have a home energy audit help you to reduce your air conditioning costs this summer with the excessive heat? If no, then why are you waiting to have a home energy audit to help you to reduce your home heating bills with the soon approaching cold winter?

Dan

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Entries from April 2008

Tankless Water Heater - Part 3 - The First Estimate

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

We are now in possession of our first official estimate for a natural gas based tankless water heater.
Bob from Sears Home Comfort, as described in Part 2, provided us with the quote.
Sears is selling the Rinnai product line of tankless water systems at this time. He recommends the R75SLSi model which, per the brochure he […]

Exterior Replacement Door - Part 20 - Enter Brent

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

We ended yesterday’s Part 19 receiving a phone call from the Arelene at the retail store followed immediately by another phone call from Amy from Head Office about our replacement front door installation issues and how we told them of our web site and series of articles about all our home renovation experiences, including the front […]

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

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 dramatically reduced our 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.

Use the graphic above to access the vendor's web site to learn more about this terrific and unique energy conservation product. Add it to your favourites to return to it later or to share with your friends.

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

Baby Robin Videos

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In mid-July we had a renovation by Mr. & Mrs. Robin of their nest underneath our deck. Was there home renovation a success?

Yes! In Late July there appeared 4 baby Robins who resided in the renovated nest for 2 and 1/2 weeks before leaving the nest to start their own lives.

Here are two videos captured with nothing more than a digital picture camera of the baby Robins and one of their Parent. Yes, turn the sound up on your computer to hear all of nature's sounds. Enjoy!

Dan

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Tankless Water Heater - Part 3 - The First Estimate

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