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Green Home improvements

Energy saving and environmentally friendly home improvement projects

Making Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer

Making Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer

Today’s consumer power washers are good cleaning tools but you can also have some fun with them and add a decorative flair to your home. Just about any type of small to medium pressure washer should work for this project, no matter how low the psi might be. With a little imagination and creativity...
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Home Improvement Tax Deductions and Credits

Home Improvement Tax Deductions

A lot of people wonder if the home improvements and home repairs they perform on their house over a year are tax deductible or eligible for any money back on income taxes at the end of the year. Most people know that many of the home improvements which improve the energy efficiency of your...
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Will LED Christmas Lights Really Save You Money?

LED vs Regular Christmas Lights

With the rising cost of just about everything, the sagging economy and the growing interest in “green” energy and materials across the country, it’s no wonder that LED Christmas lights are becoming more and more popular each year. This year a number of cities and companies have boasted how “green” they were by switching...
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Passive Cooling To Lower Your Electric Costs

Passive Cooling Methods To Save Electricity

If your home is like mine then the hottest months of the summer are often accompanied with the highest electric bills of the year due to our air conditioner running almost all the time just to keep the house at a bearable level of comfort. Air conditioners are great, but no matter whether you...
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Ceiling Fan Direction Makes A Room Cooler or Warmer

Ceiling Fan Direction Makes A Room Cooler or Warmer

We’ve had a few days of warm weather here on the East Coast lately and my wife and I have been running the ceiling fans in most of our rooms to keep the rooms cool without having to turn on our central air conditioner quite yet. Even though its been relatively mild outside we...
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Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs): Environmentally Friendly or Mercury Pollution System

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You can’t walk into any store selling any sort of home goods these days that isn’t aggressively marketing Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs). By now most people know that CFLs use much less energy than regular incandescent bulbs and give out the equivalent amount of light. And the bulbs are getting more convenient and easier...
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Home Depot Introduces Eco Options To Save Engery and the Environment

Home Depot Introduces Eco Options To Save Engery and the Environment

The Home Depot as introduced a new program called “Eco Options” which attempts to identify environmentally friendly products throughout its store. These products will clearly be labeled as part of the Eco Option program and will have less of an environmental impact than similar home improvement products beside them.
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Save Money and Energy By Insulating Your Home’s Heating Ducts

Foil Duct Insulation

It’s only gotten cold here on the East Coast in the past two weeks so I really wasn’t thinking about how efficient my forced air heating system was until I really had depend on the heat every day and night. I knew that the previous owner (supposedly a carpenter by trade) had begun to...
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