Daily Home Renovation Tips每日家装修秘诀

Not sure about whether a particular product is right for you or your home?不知道是否有特定的产品是正确的您或您的家？

Take advantage of free estimates offered by some home renovation product installers.利用免费的估计，所提供的一些家庭装修产品安装工人。

Take Drain Water Heat Recovery Devices (DWHR).采取排水余热回收设备（ dwhr ） 。 We really like them We think they are a very simple yet useful device to use the used hot temperature of a shower or dishwasher to help warm the fresh cold water coming into the house.我们真的很喜欢他们，我们认为他们是一个很简单的，但有用的装置，使用用于高温的一个澡或洗碗，以帮助表示热烈的新鲜冷水进入众议院。 This occurs by was of the used hot water leaving the house by way of a special copper pipe on the outside of which is more copper tubing through which the cold fresh water coming into the house is directed.出现这种情况是由该用热水离开家的方式，特别对铜管的外面是更多的铜油管通过该冷的食水进入众议院是针对。

We have written about these devices previously, including in our series about the Energy Efficiency Evaluation Report (energy audit report) we received as part of our participation in the ecoENERGY Retrofit program:我们已致函有关这些设备以前，包括在我们的一系列关于能源效率的评估报告（能源审计报告） ，我们收到的一部分，我们的参与，在ecoenergy改造计划： ecoENERGY Report - Part 7 - Recommendations ecoenergy报告-第7部分-建议 . 。

Well, even though we really like them we were not sure about the plumbing in our house since prior owners had 20 years before we took over to do ’stuff’.那么，即使我们真的很喜欢他们，我们不知道管道在我们家，因为前业主有20年前我们接手做'的东西' 。 And, we were not sure of the payback.而且，我们不知道的回馈。 So, we called in a national firm who not only sold one of these devices but also installed them.因此，我们呼吁在一个国家的坚定谁，不仅出售之一，但这些设备还安装了他们。

Sure enough the person was very nice and knowledgeable.果然人很好，和知识化。 In the end we decided that we would not spend the money to purchase one and have it installed.在最后我们决定，我们不会花这笔钱购买一，并已安装。 Why?为什么？ Well, we discovered with the in home estimator’s help where that darn main drain pipe was located.那么，我们发现，与在首页估算的帮助下，如果石坝主要排水管被寻回。 Would you believe that one of the previous owners had covered up the main vertical drain pipe behind not just any wall of the finished basement bathroom.你会相信，一个之前的业主已掩盖了主要的垂直排水管的背后不只是任何的围墙完成地下室浴室。 No, that would have been too easy, as they say.不，那会被太容易，正如他们所说。

They covered up the main vertical drain pipe with a wall against which was the sink, the cabinet that the sink was in and the hung mirror.他们掩盖了主要的垂直排水管与墙上所针对的是梳妆台，内阁水槽是在和红一面镜子。 And, to add to this, they did what you know from a few months ago is one of my pet peeve of home renovations.和，添加到这一点，他们没有什么你知道从几个月前是我的一位宠物peeve家居装修。 They drywalled the ceiling in the basement bathroom.他们drywalled的上限，在地下室的浴室。 This meant that we would need to also break the drywall in the ceiling to connect the fresh incoming water lines between the DWHR device and our hot water tank.这意味着我们将需要也打破drywall在天花板连接的新鲜传入水线之间的dwhr设备和我们的热水罐。

So, at the end of the day, because prior renovations in our home covered up the main vertical drain pile, it is cost prohibitive for us to spend money to have in stalled any DWHR device.因此，在这一天结束，因为在装修之前，我们的家掩盖了主要的垂直流失桩，这是成本高昂，我们花钱都在停滞不前的任何dwhr装置。

It’s great to use these in home free estimates to confirm what you thought you already knew or to add to your knowledge to make a truly fact based decision allowing you to have a greater chance of making the right decision.它的伟大使用这些在首页免费估计，以确认什么，你以为你已经知道或添加到您的知识，使一个真正的事实为基础的决定，让您有更大的机会，作出正确的决定。

Yes, the estimate is not ‘free’.是的，估计是不是'自由' 。 To you, it costs your time.给你的，它的成本您的时间。