Comments on: Get yourself winter ready, eco-style http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/09/29/get-yourself-winter-ready-eco-style/ Raising Green Consciousness since 2002 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anna Hackman http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/09/29/get-yourself-winter-ready-eco-style/#comment-32016 Anna Hackman Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:12:41 +0000 http://ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/09/29/get-yourself-winter-ready-eco-style/#comment-32016 Tracy-great post. Another place to look is those electrical outlets on your exterior walls! In the US Home Depot sell a piece that is like a small blanket that goes between the socket and the cover. Do you have something like that in the UK? Another energy saver if you want to spend the money is replace those recessed lights in your floor below your attic to closed cell cans. You can't insulate over open recessed cans in your attic and you would be surprised how much warm air ventures up your attic. Also, don't forget to make any drop down attic staircase or hatch air leak proof too. anna www.green-talk.com Tracy-great post. Another place to look is those electrical outlets on your exterior walls! In the US Home Depot sell a piece that is like a small blanket that goes between the socket and the cover. Do you have something like that in the UK?

Another energy saver if you want to spend the money is replace those recessed lights in your floor below your attic to closed cell cans. You can’t insulate over open recessed cans in your attic and you would be surprised how much warm air ventures up your attic.

Also, don’t forget to make any drop down attic staircase or hatch air leak proof too. anna http://www.green-talk.com

]]> By: Winterize the Green Way | ecogadget http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/09/29/get-yourself-winter-ready-eco-style/#comment-31543 Winterize the Green Way | ecogadget Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:41:03 +0000 http://ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/09/29/get-yourself-winter-ready-eco-style/#comment-31543 [...] Check out their post for all the green winterizing tips. [...] [...] Check out their post for all the green winterizing tips. [...]

]]> By: blackbearnh http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/09/29/get-yourself-winter-ready-eco-style/#comment-31480 blackbearnh Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:25:04 +0000 http://ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/09/29/get-yourself-winter-ready-eco-style/#comment-31480 The only thing that really made a difference for us in our 200 year old house was to get Polyurethan "hard cell" insulation applied to our basement and attic. Cut our oil bill in half. The only thing that really made a difference for us in our 200 year old house was to get Polyurethan “hard cell” insulation applied to our basement and attic. Cut our oil bill in half.

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