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I wrote about this in an earlier post, but I thought I could expand on the information a little bit. We have three heating zones in our house, each is controlled by a programmable thermostat. By installing the programmable thermostats, I believe we have saved about 15 to 20 percent on our heating bills. The [...] CT3600, CT3611, CT3500, CT3595, CT8602 Thermostat Filter reset addendum I purchased and installed a Honeywell CT3500 programmable thermostat last year. It works very well and I am satisfied with it, however, after a few months an annoying “Filter” message began to blink at me. Since I have a baseboard hot water system (hydronic), I do [...] Its that time of the year again. Before the start of every heating season, I always think it is a good idea to get the furnace serviced. This will, hopefully, prevent the startling cold wake up one January morning accompanied by that sinking feeling that the heat is out. I was a little late this [...] Now that winter is approaching, I started to keep track of the Heating Degree Days (HDD) for this year. I like keep track of such things because that is my nature. One thing that is always interesting to me is the ratio of HDD to Gallons of oil burned to heat the house. This is [...] I saw a great post over at The ConstructionDeal.com about Construction and Demolition Debris. When a remodeling project is in full swing, it is likely that the last question on anybody As a part of adding insulation to the attic this fall, I determined that I needed to remove the old soffits to get the rafter insulation spacers in place. The old soffits had no ventilation and I noticed in some mold on the under side of the roof sheathing. It started out rainy yesterday, so [...] This was a big one on my hit list. I have wanted to replace the windows in our master bedroom ever since the first winter night I lay awake and listened to the wind blowing right through them. There was this little piece of plastic that was supposed to be some sort of weather stripping [...] src= http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/files/paulthurst41_ESlogo12.gif” alt=”” border=”0″ />There is a good web page that can tell you how much energy you may be loosing compared with other houses your size. It tells you how much money you can save by adding insulation to your attic or basement. This is from the energystar.gov web site: If you have [...] After moving in, my first project was re-configuring and re-connecting our hydronic (baseboard hot water) heating system. During the renovation, much of the existing base board radiators had to be removed to replace floors. A new Dunkirk oil-fired furnace was installed in 1997. It is 85.2 percent efficient and has an output of 105 MBTU. [...] |
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