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Sealing Basement Ceiling Vent Air Leaks

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Last year, we wrote about an issue I was having with a particular vent in the drywall ceiling within one of the rooms in our home’s basement.
The issue I was having was that due to the poor installation of the vent by the prior owners (not that I am an experienced basement finishing expert myself … which […]

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Tags: Air Leaks · Basement · Energy Conservation · Finances · Finishing · Home Maintenance · Materials · Planning

Drop Ceiling Directional Air Register Installation

January 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Yesterday, we wrote about the need we had to deflect the air coming out of an air register within our basement drop ceiling.
I had found a 2 in 1 plastic air vent register which contained a built in deflector that would seem to meet our need, containing a middle component which would allow the air to […]

Featured Energy Conservation Products Used In Our Home

POWERCOST MONITOR

This very easy to install electricity conservation device provides both usage and cost of electricity consumed in the home on a real time basis.

With a very large display, the PowerCost Monitor's Display unit can be placed most anywhere in the home to provide the incentive or reminder to turn off those unnecessary lights, or video game unit no one is playing, or ....

For more information on this proven energy conservation device, simply select this link to the Blue Line Innovations web site. To read and see how we installed the PowerCost Monitor in our own home, simply access here our recent articles.

SOLAR AIR HEATER / COLLECTOR

On 01-NOV-08 we installed the CSA approved Cansolair Model RA 240 Solar Max solar air heating / collector device to help heat our home this winter and beyond.

Solar air heating devices can frequently be installed by the average home owner themselves. We did!

Solar air heaters typically consume zero home heating oil or natural gas, producing no harmful polluting emissions and costing you no money to generate the heat throughout the winter, except for electricity to run the small fan, if that.

To read about our experiences with this solar air collector device you can start at the first article in our Solar Air Heating series.

EZ SNAP SOLAR SHADES

As we wrote in this article this screen-like energy conservation device reduced the sun's UV rays entering our home so much that it caused our digital thermometer's temperature reading to actually

decrease by 15 degrees F

and keep it much cooler inside.

We keep them on all year with the sun much lower in the sky during the winter. Visit the manufacturer's web site directly by selecting the above EZ Snap graphic.

#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 much from our energy audit under the ecoENERGY Residential Retrofit program.

Our 21 year old home's EnerGuide rating is 70 (out of 100) from our energy audit report. We can achieve an EnerGide rating of 80 by undertaking all of the energy audit's recommendations. What is your home's EnerGuide rating? If you don't know, shouldn't you?

You can find details of the energy audit report we received on our home within our ECOENERGY page.

Dan

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