Planning
My Gas Pains Have Eased!
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Lorie inspects the insulation installation in a warm main level!
This week the installation of the insulation was accomplished. We went with a loose cellulose fiber blown in. We had three bids, fiberglass bats, dry loose cellulose, and wet cellulose. We elected to go with the dry loose cellulose. Slightly better R value and no need […]
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Double Hung & Cross Ventilators!
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007You see Lorie dancing in front of the master bedroom main window. This is a set of double-hung windows mulled together. We have another window in the bedroom .
This second window is also a single double-hung unit. Now, in my experience most people prefer the look of casement windows and as you may have noticed […]
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Details Details
Monday, July 9th, 2007I confess, sometimes I put on my autopilot and miss details. I gloss over them and dismiss them as “just details”. Well we all know that is where the devil lurks and for a while I was letting Beelzebub chew on me.
I thought we were just about ready to fill out our loan application and […]
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Energy Efficiency
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007With the soaring costs of energy these days we are open to using alternative energy sources. For instance, we have explored solar electricity and geothermal heat pumps.
Unfortunately, further analysis shows these new energy technologies have payback periods longer than we are willing to consider. Both solar & geothermal have payback periods on the order […]
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