With winter on the way, Southern California is going to start cooling off any day now–and you want to be ready for it. Unmaintained wood windows can let in air leaks and drive up utility bills. By sealing those leaks, reducing...
Weather stripping your home can save you money for several different reasons. While Southern California may not have harsh winters, it does have heat and our famous Santa Ana Winds and with climate change increasing the frequency and severity of...
Despite the fact that folks have been using fire as light for a few million years, we have only moved away from this trend in the last few decades. The lightbulb invented by Tomas Edison is basically a small...
There are a lot of articles, blogs, podcasts, paper airplanes and the like talking about saving energy in the home but most have the same common sense content. Turn the lights off when not in use, don’t run the...
White reflects and black absorbs. It’s a simple statement with massive ramifications if our society decides to use the science of color to fight global warming. For centuries cities in places like North Africa and the Mediterranean have been...
Miscellaneous Electrical Load (MEL) in buildings are electric loads resulting from electronic devices not responsible for space heating, cooling, water heating, or lighting. MELs are produced by hard-wired and “plug-in” electrical devices, including home entertainment centers, kitchen electronics such as...
Over the years I have worked on thousands of projects, all in various trades and scopes. Time after time I see Homeowners, Property Management Companies, and Contractors make costly mistakes that could have been avoided or easily minimized had...
If you live some where that is not temperate year round you may not have run into this abominable style of windows. For obvious reasons, installing these things somewhere cold is a terrible idea but installing them somewhere warm...
The Emissivity of a material is it’s ability to emit energy as radiation and has a value of between zero and one. In other words materials with high emissivity (like tinfoil) does not heat up when the sun hits...
Cold weather is here and so is the energy saving Eco-Heater Tashman Home Center is offering a wall-mounted convection heater that will warm your room while it saves you money-which will definitely warm your heart and pockets. The Eco-Heater...