Thermostats
I see it all the time, someone walks in to a room and they’re not comfortable so they start trying to tell a thermostat how to do it’s job. They turn it up to 90 then 20 minutes later they turn it down to 60 and the cycle keeps repeating itself. The setting of a ...
Dress your house
It might sound kind of silly but you can dress your house before you leave for the day. To dress your house listen to the weather report in the morning and prepare your house for that days weather. In the spring and the fall when it’s cooler out make sure to take advantage of solar ...
Live with a Star
Most of us have thought at one time or another how cool movie star’s are. We get caught up in the latest gossip and news about them or look at the latest tabloid pictures. We may even think about how cool it would be to live with a star. Well you can live with a ...
Make Earth Day a check your house day!
What a perfect day to go through your house to make sure your house is doing its part for Earth Day. ELECTRIC LOADS Check to make sure your most often used light bulbs are CFLs or LEDs. Get a combo pack and change the next 3 most often used bulbs. Do you have any chargers ...
Blinded by tax credits
Don’t look now, but you too can get blinded by a federal tax credit. That’s right, you can now replace your window blinds with energy efficient blinds and get a 30% tax credit for doing it. Comfortex created a window blind that is certified for the federal energy efficiency tax credits. They claim an R-value ...
Asthmatic furnaces
How long has it been since you cleaned or changed the air filters in your heating system? If a furnace filter is not changed regularly it’s like giving your furnace a case of asthma. When a filter is dirty the blower motor is not able to move the amount of air that the system was ...
Haunted Houses
Is your house haunted? Many people are living in haunted houses and they don’t even know it. In the energy efficiency world there are devices in our houses that are referred to as vampires. Vampires are those little items that we don’t think of as consuming energy but they chip away at our electric bills ...
