Bill, I have been thinking about that for a long time and keep putting it off. Many years ago in Money Magazine they recommended that you have a min of 4500 kw generator and treat it as an insurance policy. Not only for the winter but also summer. It mentioned about your freezers and the average dollar value of food. In the winter you can cycle your heat to keep pipes and bathroom fixtures from freezing. They stated that you should treat it as a one time payment as an insurance policy and hope you never have to collect. Lenny ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Stephan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:51 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Thermol windows
Thanks Bob, I'll do that tomorrow. What I found out so far is that it really depends, and you better be real careful who you deal with. I talked to three firms that supposedly did energy audits and two of them were ready to sell me more insulation without even looking at the property and the third guy told me I probably ought to buy a new furnace. So, I got a hold of the general contractor who did our massive remodeling when we first bought the place and who is honest and does excellent work. He told me that in a home less than thirty years old it probably didn't make a lot of sense to put thermal windows in, but in one as old as ours, where the windows are not at all tight, they probably made sense. He had two prices, one he thinks is $550 a pop, and one at about $440. According to this fellow the $440 one is the way to go since the higher dollar window isn't really all that different, just better known. On a sort of related note, can any of you give me good suggestions or techniques I can use to convince my wife we really have to have a 5KW generator in case we have an ice storm this Winter? So far I've come up with, "The cat will die if we can't stay here, because he can't go to a hotel, even if we could find a room somewhere after an event like that". -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chiliblindman Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 20:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Thermol windows Bill, if you search for window R value or R insulation factor you should come up with something workable. ...................bob [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links __________ NOD32 3304 (20080728) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
