Many areas of the country are experiencing drought conditions right now with little relief in sight. While we’re not so bad off here in Connecticut, it’s always nice to save water whenever we can. Here are five great ways to do it! How to Decide Which Plants Get Water During a Drought High heat and …
Over the past few weeks, many areas of the country – including New England – have experienced some uncomfortably hot conditions that have us searching for any possible way to keep cool. Your house is no different; it, too, needs to be kept cool when the weather gets too hot to handle. Here are some …
Daylight Saving Time Starts Sunday, March 11th! Once again it’s time for that most hated of all Spring-time activities, the Springing Forward of the Clock, otherwise known as Daylight Saving Time. This year, the dreaded date and time is 2 AM on Sunday, March 11th. For the next 8 months we get to look forward …
Daylight Saving Time Starts Sunday, March 13th! Once again it’s time for that most hated of all Spring-time activities, the Springing Forward of the Clock, otherwise known as Daylight Saving Time. This year, the dreaded date and time is 2 AM on Sunday, March 13th. For the next 8 months we get to look forward …
[Ever since we had our home energy audit done back in November, we’ve gotten several more solicitations from companies offering to do one for us, and only charge us $75. Luckily, since we are Wallingford residents our energy audit cost us nothing, as the cost was covered by the town. As we’ve said before, energy …
Save Money, Pick Your Electric Provider Back in November we wrote a post about having a Home Energy Audit done on our home. It was free, fairly fast…and eye-opening. It revealed several “illegal points of entry” for cold air to come rampaging into our otherwise snug little abode, and once we got those little buggers …
Last December we published this post about having a Home Energy Audit done in your home. Our Yankee Gas service tech told us they were a great way to find out how energy efficient your home was, and they were very inexpensive at the time ($75 for Wallingford residents), so we applied to have one …
This Saturday, March 25th, at 8:30 PM, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will again be sponsoring Earth Hour, an event to bring attention to the problem of global warming. For one hour individuals, businesses, colleges, towns and cities, and myriad other entities will be turning off all non-essential lighting as a symbol of their desire …
We were getting our annual furnace check-up from Yankee Gas a couple of days ago and after telling us our furnace was good to go, the service tech said something in passing about getting a home energy audit. I had heard that these audits could be done, but I was under the impression that they …
Wallingford residents are about to get a double jolt when two increases to their electric rates go into effect. The summer rate increase, made during May to October, will add $7.46 to your monthly bill. But, because of the rising costs of wholesale energy, the Public Utilities Commission has also approved an additional $11.41 increase …