[q]I’m looking for information regarding the use of rainwater collected from an asphalt shingle roof to be used in watering a food garden. I’ve searched the old posts and I’ve read in several places that it is not a good idea to use water from an asphalt roof for a food garden, but I’ve never […]
Articles Tagged: hot water heat
Affordable Energy with Windmills
[q]In my research on windmills, I found that in most cases, they would not be economical to build for electricity supply depending on use. For example, to produce electricity for home use and or putting it in a grid, the cost of the equipment is more then the power produced. You add the cost of […]
Drain Heat Recovery System
[q]This looks in principle to be a good idea. It often occurred to me that a whole lot of heat was going straight down the drain after bathing or during showering. The construction of this device looks so simple – it would be easy to make one cheaply using 2″ copper pipe and a coil […]
Cement Floors in living area’s?
Well i guess its now the “Green” thing to do and pretty trendy but we have had a cement floor in our house for years. Years ago we had a hot water heater blow out and our floors where ruined and we had to rip them all out, so in our kitchen and living room […]
Dwindling water supply
I have a question i hope someone will be able to answer for me. i have well water at my home and for the past 3 months my water has been going off for as long as 30 minutes at a time. eventually it does come back on. but when it does you can hear […]
Advice on tankless water heater
I called a plumbing company in town to get a price on a tankless hot water heater and i was a bit shocked. They said 2,500. That was a bit more then i planned but he explained they had to install it on an outside wall to vent it outside and then run the gas […]
Air conditioning issues
Maybe someone can shed some light on an air condition problem. My son bought a house with an older unit, (orig) He called out someone who said the unit is leaking oil. Does anyone know what would leak oil besides the Motor? and the bearings are bad. hm, again sounds like the Motor. He does […]