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Heating / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Heating with electricity

Heat up your home efficiently and affordably in Quebec with the electric thermal storage heating system grant!

...heating and benefit from the LogisVert grant Program in Quebec! There are many schemes and subsidies to help you move away from oil and natural gas and save money on heating © Jarek Ceborski, Unsplash Central heating system with thermal storage In a central heating system with a thermal storage unit, the air is recov...

Lifestyle and environment

How to handle a power outage in cold weather

...heating oil. This is done by insulating homes, reducing air leaks, and replacing inefficient heating systems with modern high-efficiency electric heating systems like heat pumps. Not to mention that simply building warmer, more comfortable homes that are more resilient to extreme weather events makes sense. Better bu...

Heating and cooling

Do heat pumps need a backup heat source?

...heating and the home will start to cool down. This is not just inconvenient but can be potentially deadly, depending on a number of factors and variables when making the decision about whether to install a backup heating system. Backup heat for heat pumps and electric heating in power outages can be a prudent choice...

Heating with gas and oil

Why natural gas is Being phased out of new home construction (and When?)

...heating source? Natural gas is ‘cleaner’ than coal or oil, and that ‘fact’ was enough to launch a very successful global marketing campaign to convince homeowners that heating with gas is safe and clean. We suspect that it's no accident that it's called 'Natural' gas either! The illusion (or delusion) we cling to that ...

Heating and cooling

Fixing noisy baseboard heaters, how to stop that clicking easily!

...heating system across Canada and also fitted as a budget heating system across the USA, so they are well known. They are inexpensive to buy and relatively quick to install, which is also probably a large part of the reason they are so often chosen. Electric baseboard heaters are basically zone heaters. They are typical...

Heating with electricity

Heating with electricity - the Best choice for high efficiency & Zero Energy homes?

...heating with fossil fuels. At current market prices there is an argument that can be made that heating with gas is more affordable, but not for much longer as heating with natural gas is being phased out of new home construction. There is no way to determine the cost of heating with fossil fuels in to the future, or ho...

Natural swimming pools and ponds

Heating a swimming pool - top 10 cost-efficient & eco-friendly ways to heat a pool

...heating their pool can be a major downer, even with a highly efficient system like a Heat Pump Pool Heater (HPPH). One of the things we’re asked a lot at EcoHome is “How can I reduce the cost of heating my swimming pool?” There are clearly two factors here – just like when heating a home. On one hand we need to conside...