Reader Comments on Home Heat Efficiency: Six Tips from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:51:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2008-11/home/tom-silva-tips HOW ABOUT SOME THERMAL CURTAINS. IDO THIS EVERY YEAR, IT HELPS. ALSO PLACE A BOARD ON TOP OF YOUR A.C. THIS WILL KEEP LEAVES OUT AND RUST FROM GETTING IN. THE AIR WI LL FLOW. HAVE YOUR TREES CUT BACK A BIT. WINTER SNOW CAN BREAK THEM AND CAUSE A PROBLEM. THANKS SUE P.S. MY HUSBAND IS FOR ME Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:50:01 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2008-11/home/tom-silva-tips Let the sunshine help warm your home. Open shades to let sun in and when dark, keep shades pulled down and especially when windy. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:46:50 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2008-11/home/tom-silva-tips Try using the shrink wrap plastic on old windows, my house is 100 years old and has drafty windows. Easy to put on and take off in the spring. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:26:30 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2008-11/home/tom-silva-tips Window Quilts! We have had them in two houses. First learned about them at a workshop over twenty years ago. The performance is amazing. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:24:41 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2008-11/home/tom-silva-tips BE SURE TO CHECK WHERE THE DISCHARGE PIPE LEAVES THE HOUSE--- REF---CLOTHS DRYER--- AND WHERE SILL COCKS LEAVE THE HOUSE--- GO DOWN CELLAR--IN DAY TIME---WITH LIGHTS TURNED OFF AND LOOK FOR DAYLITE---YOU WILL BE SUPRISED AT WHAT YOU WILL FIND Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:17:26 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2008-11/home/tom-silva-tips My house is of about the same vintage and blowing in insulation was not an option as this house is plank construction. I now have 8 inch think walls with LOTS of history between the sheetrock and the outside! I still have a problem with a back draft on my kitchen exhaust fan tho Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:28:52 +0100