Daily Home Renovation Tips

On January 1, 2008 we began a series of articles on our experiences with the Energy Efficiency Evaluation Report (i.e. energy audit) we received from our participation in the ecoENERGY Retorfit program.Why? Well, because no other web site (government, private sector or individual blogger) has done this. Please, if you can find one as detailed as ours please tell us.

We believe it is important to educate all home owners on the tremendous value from having an energy audit performed on their home. This report identifies all kinds of ways to reduce home energy consumption, save the home owner money, help them do their tiny part to help reduce the spread of global warming and help save the planet.

So, we have created the ECOENERGY page on our web site to make it easier for everyone visiting our site to find all 15 articles in the order in which they were written. These articles examine the various charts, graphs, ratings and recommendations specific to our home which is a very typical suburban home in a residential area.

We hope you not only enjoy reading this collection of articles, but also that they motivate you to conserve energy in your own lives and, if you are a home owner, to have an energy audit done on your own home, regardless of where you live on this planet we humans call Earth.So, here are our articles on our ecoENERGY Grant program experiences. More to come in the future. Enjoy!ecoENERGY Report - Part 1

ecoENERGY Report - Part 8 - Recommendations

ecoENERGY Report - Part 9 - Energy Savings Tips

ecoENERGY Report - Part 10 - Energy Savings Tips

ecoENERGY Report - Part 11 - Energy Savings Tips

ecoENERGY Report - Part 12 - Space Heating Energy Consumption

ecoENERGY Report - Part 13 - Estimated Heat Loss

ecoENERGY Report - Part 14 - Estimated Heat Loss

ecoENERGY Report - Part 15 - Now What?

Hopefully the ecoENERGY Report series is sufficient motivation for you to particpate in the program by selecting the ecoENERGY Retrofit Program link in our blog roll if you are in Canada. If you live outside of Canada, hopefully you contact your local utility to inquire about an energy audit on your home.

In either case, you don’t have to wait for an energy audit to take action now. Remember the heat wave last summer? Remember those expensive air conditioning bills because your house or cottage or camper was too hot due to the direct rays from the sun?

We found this wonderful new solar blind product from EZ Snap which appears to be amazingly simple to install on the exterior of windows of any shape and size, does not block the view from the inside, yet is an effective energy conservation product. 

Their web site has excellent short videos explaining the product and how most anyone can easily install it in a, well, snap. :-)  We purchased ours and installed it this spring. If you want to learn more simply select the link below. They’ve even allowed our site’s visitors to receive a 5% discount when ordering from their web store by using the Referral number below.