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Part 2: Insulating Foundations - Basement Wall
Part 2 of Insulating Foundations gives you the options available to you for insulating your basement. So read on...
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Part 1: Insulating Foundations - Slab-on-Grade
Find out which location of insulation is the best for you if your house has a slab-on-grade foundation. Also learn about a typical construction section through your foundation.
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Low-Cost Tips for an Energy Efficient Green Home
Making your home more energy efficient doesn't have to be expensive. There are a number of quick, inexpensive changes that you can make to green up and save money.
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Types of Home Insulation
An overview of different types of and uses for home insulation. Includes fibreglass, mineral wool, polystyrene, polyurethane and blown-in cellulose.
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Down vs. Synthetic Insulation
The pros and cons of two commonly used insulating materials for outdoor products.
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Plastic Window Insulation
Making your home more energy efficient doesn't have to be expensive. Cheap, easy to install shrink film can keep heat or air conditioning from flying out the window.
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Warm and Stylish Window Treatments
The right window treatment can keep your Victorian home toasty warm on cold winter days -- without burying you in velvet and fringe.
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Radiant Barrier Spray and Foil
Roof Radiant barrier spray or foil? Which one will lower utility bills and not effect cell phone reception? Both save on utility bills and are green energy solutions.
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Attic Ventilation: Venting Hot Air
Attic Ventilation is essential for exhausting hot air, to ease the load on the air conditioner, and to lower utility bills. This can be done with roof vents and fans.
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Winter interlude
A weekend visit to the cottage in winter is physically challenging and invigorating, but undaunting to children.
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Energy Efficiency and Windows
Learn about the factors and properties of windows that can make them energy efficient. Explore energy efficient glazing and frame types. Compare the energy saved by using single-, double- and triple-pane windows.
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Hiking Socks
Dry, comfortable, socks which keep your feet from blistering rates up there with a warm, dry, sleeping bag, as far as essential gear.
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How To Thaw a Frozen Water Pipe
Freezing winter weather brings Christmas fun and frozen pipes. How to prevent frozen water pipes with insulation and how to thaw water pipes with a hair dryer or heat gun
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What is Multiple Sclerosis?
An introduction and description of the basic disease process of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
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Home Repair Codes and Safety
When planning a home improvement project, don't forget to familiarize yourself with building codes and guidelines. Doing your homework will keep you safe and save money.
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DIY New Year's Resolutions
Tired of failed New Year's resolutions? DIY projects don't require a diet or quitting smoking. Plan next year's DIY projects: laminate flooring, shower tile, and more.
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Spring Flower Bulbs Grow too Soon
Spring bulbs sometimes grow too soon in spring or come up in the fall. Why they emerge now, what to do (and what not to do) when spring flower bulbs sprout extra early.
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Installing Recessed Light Fixtures
This "how to" article explains how easy it is to replace an existing surface mounted ceiling light with a modern, elegant recessed can light, and things to watch out for.
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How to Make a Quilt Design Wall
Here are nine easy and inexpensive ways to create a quilt design wall that lets you view your quilt and make sure it looks good before you assemble the pieces.
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Energy Efficiency in New Zealand
The New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy seeks to promote sustainability and improve the quality of life for New Zealand families.
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Examining Home Siding Choices
House siding choices are made depending on homeowner preference, climate conditions, and home maintenance needs. Cedar siding, vinyl siding, or fiber cement siding?
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Asbestos Health Effects
Learn the different types of asbestos used in industry, its effects on health and asbestos removal methods.
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Save Energy to Stop Global Warming
Many people think that they are powerless to stop Global Warming. They are wrong. Here are ten steps that can make any home an environmentally friendly enclave.
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Tales from the West Texas Dust
Part IV of an interview with Randy Williamson.
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Reducing Your Utility Bills, Not Your Bank Account
Once again it is the dark and chilly time of year – the time when we gag, gasp and pass out when confronted with utility bills. When it comes to energy consumption, we pay in every way possible. So conserving energy will not only help the environment but save our bank accounts from extinction as well. But many tips folks give you for conserving energy aren’t all that cost effective or realistic in the short term. Sure, we’d love to reinsulated our homes, buy new water heaters, replace all our major appliances with newer, more efficient models and protect the environment, saving money in our later years. It would be grand to build or rebuild in a super-energy efficient eco-friendly way or even go off-grid. Maybe one day I’ll be able to do that. But my problem is a bit more urgent. After all, if I had the money to reinsulate, remodel or rebuild my home and replace all my appliances, I wouldn’t be worried about what the utility bill is costing me. So how can a cash-strapped non-construction worker reduce those energy costs? Read on to find out.
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Reducing Your Utility Bills, Not Your Bank Account II
This is the second installment of the article about saving on utility bills. We move to the biggest consumer of energy - heating and cooling the home. Here are a few tips to keep you frugally cozy this winter.
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Buying a Haunted House
If you suspect that you are sharing your home with an otherworldly resident, what can you do?
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New York - Greenwich Village
This small and vibrant section of New York City is packed with places to eat, stores for shopping and all the people watching you can come to expect from the Big Apple.
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Ag Wastes May Fuel California Cars
California farmers may soon have a home for their crop wastes -- an ethanol plant that should be constructed next year.
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I WISH YOU COULD SEE
THe inner feelings of a firefighter
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It's cold! Insulate me!
How do heat insulators and conductors work.
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Loop of America
New techology to help thrre HOH population
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Perils In Real Estate: Wiring
A major concern when viewing an older home is wiring; here are some useful tips to assist with identifying substandard wiring and how to deal with the situation.
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Sand Cats
They may be small bundles of fur but they know how to survive in some of the harshest environments in the world.
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The Home Inspection
Protect your investment and get your house inspected before finalizing the purchase contract. It can save you alot of headaches later.
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WEAVING TECHNIQUE: tufted work
Tufted pile can be used to decorate even simple weaving projects. This article demonstrates pile creation technique by making a Christmas mug rug with a raised tufted tree for holiday gift giving.
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A Child's Christmas...
A brief vignette on the Christmas season and the type of memories it can call to mind.
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Another DIFFERENT Winter!
How weather affects dormancy and hardiness of garden plants.
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ANWR Oil Drilling Threat Delayed
Beaufort Sea and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge protected, at least temporarily. Ongoing struggle over North Slope oil moving in favor of conservation.
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Borderline PD Brain Metabolism
A study recently appearing in the May 2007 issue of Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience reviews what we know about brain physiology of BPD patients.
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Buying a Fixer-Upper
Buying a home in need of repair? How to get the best deal and avoid buying a money pit. Learn all about negotiating, hiring contractors and doing the work yourself.
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Chevrolet Pickup Mechanical Issues
Your repair questions answered about a 1992 Chevrolet Half-ton Pickup by auto expert Vincent Ciulla.
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Clothing Layers for Staying Warm
Includes ideas on different clothing options for staying warm, as well as how to keep hands and feet warm.
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Energy Conservation Kits
Mana-cha-toon Wash-ti-ni-gun, the Conserve the Light Project, has distributed over 25,000 energy efficiency kits to promote conservation in Ontario First Nations homes
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Erin Brockovich in Maine?
Toxic mold is threatening our neck of the woods, too.
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Expressing a Culture in Fabrics
Fabric as an expression of culture through the ages.
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