A blog designed as an open forum, discussing any and all things that can improve your personal cash flow by spending less on energy and home issues. The content comes from personal knowledge, experts in the field and the written word...
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A blog designed as an open forum, discussing any and all things that can improve your personal cash flow by spending less on energy and home issues. The content comes from personal knowledge, experts in the field and the written word. Please keep in mind that ALL responses are opinions - and while we may feel that they are correct - it is up to you, the reader, to decide for yourself.
Please feel free to ask The House-Zen Guy your questions. He may not have the answers, but he has a wealth of industry related contacts that he can reach.
In Part 5 we revealed the two quotes received from two separate companies to install the same Rinnai natural gas tankless water heater.
I won’t repeat all of the details from the two offers here (use the link to Part 5 above to see the comparative details), but to me there was clearly one offer which was less price and had better warranty.
This is new technology to me, even though tankless water heaters are much more the norm in Western Europe and else where. Hot water tanks are more of a... Read Full Story
Today, April 22nd 2008, being Earth Day we thought we would write about an email we received concerning our series of articles on the ecoENERGY Retrofit - Homes program.
We were actually quite humbled to receive an email less than a week ago from The Honourable Gary Lunn, P.C., M.P., Minister, Natural Resources Canada. Yes, that Gary Lunn!
We had contacted via email the leaders and selected members of all major federal political parties in Canada as well as the major and many local media... Read Full Story
We received many comments to our Part 7 article in this series on tankless water heaters. One of those who left a comment, Ginna, made some good points. What I would like to do is to post her comment followed by my thoughts as our article of the day today.
OK, here is Ginna’s comment unedited:
Dan,
I’m curious as to why you only got quotes on the Rinnai. There are other models which allow for horizontal venting. (The Bosch comes to mind, is carried at Home Depot, and is much cheaper.)
I... Read Full Story
Yesterday we wrote about some of the metrics and measures provided by Natural Resources Canada on the impact with the ecoENERGY Retrofit Program had achieved during its first full 12 months ending March 31, 2008.
Today, we would like to dig a little deeper into those numbers and more. As we do so we will attempt to refrain from subjective opinion and comment. Rather we will ask the questions we believe need to be both asked and answered by those with more information, knowledge and expertise... Read Full Story
Well, it has been just over 4 months since we had the first Energy Efficiency Assessment (i.e., energy audit) conducted on our home as part of our participation in the Canadian Federal Government’s ecoENERGY Retrofit program. We have written extensively about the Energy Efficiency Evaluation Report we received from this assessment, and you can find links to all 15 of these articles on our ECOENERGY page.
What have we done? Well, we did replace many (not all) of the windows with ENERGY STAR... Read Full Story
