One more note about attic insulation, a properly insulated and vented attic will prevent ice damming. This is a big issue this time of year. Ice damming can cause attic and facier bord leaks, and also weigh down your gutters to the point of ripping off your house. This can be very dangerous, call for a free estimate on attic insulation today.
With the spring and anticipation of the warm weather coming, one thing to remember is that the best time to maintenance your air conditioner is when you dont need it. Change or clean the filter, but always remember, dont run any a.c. unit unless it is 60 degrees or above. Also remember that All Aspects installs ductless a.c. units.
Attic Insulation, even if your attic is properly insulated, it will increase your homes efficiency to add more. This must be done properly. Laying unfaced r-19 rolls across and on top of the attic joists, tightly fit will dramatically reduce the amount of heat the home loses. Remember heat rises, its important to keep it in.
Adjust your humidity. A well-humidified house at 68 degrees Fahrenheit is as comfortable as a dry house at 75 degrees. Aquariums and house plants can add humidity
Ok—this will require a bit of effort on your part, but the returns are twofold: Planting just three shady trees around your house not only can whack $100 to $250 off your annual heating and cooling costs, according to the DOE, but will most likely make your yard more attractive, to boot. (Leafy trees can shield the house from direct sunlight, keeping temperatures down, while still permitting sunlight to hit your house during the winter months.)
Not interested in nurturing your green thumb? Simply pulling the shades (or drawing your curtains) can cut energy costs as well
Clothes Dryer...Place your dryer where it gets clean, dry air. A humid area causes moisture inside the the dryer which lengthens the drying time, and thus wastes energy.
Here is the best tip that I could possibly give to you. Are you ready, cause here it is. remember this one....Remember All Aspects for home inspections in November!!!
Here is a tip that is a petpeive of mine. It involves proper attic ventilation. Some people think that the more insulation you use, the better. This is not the case. Insulation must be properly placed, or it can be harmful. Icicles may look very attractive hanging from your roof, but they are sure signs of heat loss and pose a danger to those who walk underneath them. Make sure that your attic insulation keeps the proper heat inside.
Energy conservation. Instead of using the drying cycle on the your dishwasher, allow your dishes to dry naturally with the door open.
Water Conservation...Shower instead of taking a bath. The average bath uses 20-30 gallons of water while the average shower uses only 10 gallons. Install a hand shower in a showerless tub and save on water heating bills.
With the hot weather coming, remember to clean out your a.c. filters and coils. A few minutes will save you tremendously on this summers lipa bill.
There are now bulbs on the market that turn on and off automatically each time you enter and exit a room.
Invest in a "clock thermostat." There's no need to heat the entire house while you're at work, and the device will turn the furnace on at the time you desire.
Install a controlling switch at the entrance to your room. This saves you having to turn each individual lamp off, which means you're more likely to switch off more often.
Dropping the temperature from 72 degrees to 68 degrees can save you as much as 15% on your heating bill. Drop it one degree each week to acclimatize yourself to the new temperature.
Save your bulbs by installing dimmer switches. Three way switches also save energy, giving you the convenience of switching on at one entrance and off at another.
keep your bulbs clean. Dusty light bulbs can reduce the efficiency of the lighting fixture by as much as 75%.
With the fridgid weather coming in comes big heat bills. As the cost of oil keeps increasing it's important that we try and conserve all that we can. here's one small tip that might help. Remember, every little bit counts.
Heating tip:
Use your fan...Conserve heating energy in the winter and cooling energy in the summer by adjusting your ceiling fan rotation accordingly. In the summer have it rotate clockwise to draw the hot air up, allowing cooler to replace it. In the winter have it rotate counter clockwise to push the hot air down.
Susie's husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months. Things looked grim, but she was by his bedside every single day. One day as he slipped back into consciousness, he motioned for her to come close to him. She pulled the chair close to the bed and leaned her ear close to be able to hear him.
"You know" he whispered, his eyes filling with tears, "you have been with me through all the bad times. When I got fired, you stuck right beside me. When my business went under, there you were. When we lost the house, you were there. When I got shot, you stuck with me. When my health started failing, you were still by my side. "And you know what?"
"What, dear?" she asked gently, smiling to herself.
"I think you're bad luck."
A door-to-door salesman comes-a-knocking and 10-year-old Little Johnny answers, a beer in one hand and a lit cigar in the other. The salesman says, "Little boy, is your mommy home?" Little Johnny taps his ash on the carpet and says, "What the hell do you think?"
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. The next week the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5.00 am for an early morning business flight to Chicago. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he finally wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5.00 am." The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9.00am, and that he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed ... it said... "It is 5.00am; wake up."
Food for thought. Why is the person that handles all of your money called a ''Broker''
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft. Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted,"Are there any gators around here?!"
"Naw," the man hollered back, "they ain't been around for years!"
"Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.
About halfway there he asked the guy,"How'd you get rid of the gators?"
"We didn't do nothin'," the beachcomber said.
"The sharks got 'em."
A salesman from KFC walked up to the Pope and offers him a million dollars if he would change "The Lord's Prayer" from "give us this day our daily bread" to "give us this day our daily chicken." The Pope refused his offer.
Two weeks later, the man offered the pope 10 million dollars to change it from "give us this day our daily bread" to "give us this day our daily chicken" and again the Pope refused the man's generous offer. Another week later, the man offered the Pope 20 million dollars and finally the Pope accepted. The following day, the Pope said to all his officials, "I have some good news and some bad news. 'The good news is, that we have just received a check for 20 million dollars. The bad news is, we lost the Wonder Bread account!'''
Even my kids think this one is corny, but I think its funny Q. What do you call a fish with two knees?
A. A toonie fish
NASA was interviewing professionals to be sent to Mars. Only one could go, but with one catch - he couldn't return to Earth.
The first applicant, an engineer, was asked how much he wanted to be paid for going. "One million dollars," he answered, "because I want to donate it to M.I.T."
The next applicant, a doctor, was asked the same question. He asked for two million. "I want to give a million to my family," he explained, "and leave the other million for the advancement of medical research." The last applicant was a lawyer. When asked how much money he wanted, he whispered in the interviewer's ear, "Three million dollars."
"Why so much more than the others?" the interviewer asked.
The lawyer replied, "If you give me $3 million, I'll give you $1 million, I'll keep $1 million, and we'll send the engineer
This is the transcript of an actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995.
Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations on November 10, 1995.
Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
Q. What did the martian say to the gas pump?
A. Take your finger out of your ear when I'm talking to you.
The finals of the National Poetry Contest last year came down to two finalists. One was a Duke University Law School graduate from an upper crust family; well-bred, well-connected, and all that goes with it. The other finalist was a redneck from Southeast Alabama A&M.
The rules of the contest required each finalist to compose a four-line poem in one minute or less, and the poem had to contain the word "Timbuktu".
The Duke graduate went first. About thirty seconds after the clock started he jumped up and recited the following poem:
Slowly across the desert sand Trekked the dusty caravan. Men on camels, two by two Destination-Timbuktu.
The audience went wild!!! How, they wondered, could the redneck top that?! The clock started again and the redneck sat in silent thought. Finally, in the last few seconds, he jumped and recited:
Tim and me, a-huntin' went. Met three whores in a pop-up tent. They was three, we was two, So I bucked one and Timbuktu
George Bush and Dick Cheney are talking, when Bush suddenly complains "I hate all the dumb George Bush jokes people tell about me."
Cheney, feeling sorry for his "boss," says "Oh, they're only jokes. There are a lot of truly stupid people out there. Here, I'll prove it to you."
Cheney takes Bush outside and hails a cab.
"Please take me to 29 Nickel Street to see if I'm home," says Cheney. The cab driver, without saying a word, drives them to 29 Nickel Street.
Cheney looks at Bush and says, "See! This guy is really stupid."
George Bush agrees. "He really is a dummy. There was a pay phone just around the corner. You could have called instead
Q. What is yellow and white and goes down a train track at a hundred miles an hour?
A. A train drivers egg sandwich.
A man wakes up in a hospital bed after a terrible accident and cries - "DOC, DOC...I can't feel my legs, I can't feel my legs!!!
"Well of course you can't silly!", replies the Doc... "I've cut off both of your arms
Q. What is gray, has four legs and a trunk?
A. A mouse going on vacation.
It seems that this old couple are having trouble remembering things, so they sign up for a memory course. The course is wonderful; they come home and tell all their relatives, friends, and neighbors about it. Some months later, a neighbor approaches the man as he tends the garden.
Neighbor asks, "Say, Ed, what was the name of the instructor of that memory course you liked so much?"
Ed replies, "Well, it was...hmmm...let me think a minute... What's the name of that flower, you know, the one that smells so nice, but has thorns on the stems...?
Neighbor says, "You mean a rose?"
Ed replies, "Yeah, that's it!...(shouting toward house) Hey, Rose, what was that memory course instructor's name?
Q. What happened to the man who didn't know the difference between putty and toothpaste?
A. All his windows fell out.
A new jail warden was being shown through the jailhouse by the old warden.
Soon, after making rounds around the rest of the jail, they get to the cafeteria. In one corner, he sees a group of elderly men laughing hysterically.
Interested, he watches them while the older warden gets his food. One of the men shouts out "63!" and the entire table bursts out laughing. The new warden is totally baffled by the behavior of them. "74!", again a chorus of guffaws ring out.
The old warden comes back to the table where the new warden sits staring, and the new warden asks "What are those elderly men doing."
The old warden smirks, and says, "Oh, those are the life timers. They've been in here so long, they just number their jokes."
Meanwhile another one calls out "2!". Nobody laughs.
The new warden leans over and asks, "What happened?" To this the old warden replied, "Some people just can't tell a joke."
A old snake goes to see his Doctor.
"Doc, I need something for my eyes...can't see well these days". The Doc fixes him up with a pair of glasses and tells him to return in 2 weeks.
The snake comes back in 2 weeks and tells the doctor he's very depressed.
Doc says, "What's the problem...didn't the glasses help you?"
"The glasses are fine doc, I just discovered I've been living with a water hose the past 2 years!"
