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92Nine Green Home Heating Alternatives to Start Working on for this Winter
September is here which means that summer is over and fall is just around the corner. Although the sun is still shining warmly in most parts of the United States today, the months of needing to heat our homes...
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83Rocket Mass Heaters: Efficient Home Heating With Wood
A Rocket Mass Heater is a wood-burning device. Beyond that, it gets weird. Technically neither a woodstove nor a fireplace, the rocket mass heater is related to masonry heaters, rocket stoves, and traditional...
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83Gas Furnace Troubleshooting
If your furnace were a car, every year you would drive it 55,000 miles! That is a lot of miles! When was the last time you has your heating system serviced? Your heating system, just like your car, is a...
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83Hybrid Home Heating
It's a cool way to stay warm. Hybrid home heating systems present homeowners a more efficient way to heat their homes and they are more comfortable than typical systems. Hybrid heating systems are kind of...
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83Carbon Monoxide Detectors - Saving Lives & Embarrassment
It's every parent's worse nightmare...a knock on the front door late on a cold and snowy winter's night. An elderly gentleman answers the door, his wife and two young children behind him, as he looks...
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84Use Solar Energy to Heat Water
This article can be viewed in full in the May 2008, edition 194 of Fine Homebuilding. "Solar Hot Water" was originally published by Scott Gibson. "A spike in energy prices and short-lived government...
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81ALTERNATIVE HOME HEAT - CORN/RECYCLED WOOD PELLET BURNING STOVES
This is our "main" corn/recycled Wood Pellet stove.it is like a woodburner, but as you will see in the pictures to follow it does not burn wood ( wich saves trees ) and will heat 2 levels of our home,...
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80How to choose your home heating system? And which energy sources could be consider the best choice for heating your...
With energy prices rising, the area of home heating is a real hot topic these days, conservationists are smug, with an "I told you so " attitude, and conservatives finally jumping on the bandwagon but still...
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76Annual furnace inspection before heating season makes good sense
IMPORTANT: You should always have a licensed heating contractor inspect your home's heating system annually. A thorough checkup ensures that your furnace is operating at peak efficiency and most importantly...
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79How To Not Get Scammed on Heating This Winter
I routinely do a double-take whenever I see a full page ad in any newspaper, especially a nationally known one. Having a marketing degree combined with a "skeptic gene" -- I'm well aware that any individual...
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