How to Heat & Cool Your Home for Less

Frankly, there are all kinds of ways to cut your home energy costs, especially as they pertain to heating and cooling. For now, let’s focus on just one: installing one or more two-way ceiling fans. Depending on where they’re installed, how often they’re used, and...

Health Effects of New Carpet Odors

“New” can be a wonderful scent.  A new car with leather interior, a fresh coat of paint, new wood furniture – to say nothing of the perfect scent of a newborn child. “New”, on the other hand, can be highly over-rated.  New coats of stain and varnish on a hardwood...

How to Get the Most from Your Furnace

We all talk to inanimate objects from time to time, or to people who can’t hear a word we’re saying.  Here are a few common examples: To your favorite team’s basketball coach while you watch on TV: “Put Jones in, you idiot…they’re killing us under the boards!” To...

Habits You’ll Want to Break

Don’t worry, this is not a pitch about quitting smoking or a plea to err on the side of sobriety.  Today, we’re leaving those bad habits aside. Those featured in this blog are the everyday sort, the kind that drive family members crazy, perhaps, and others that can...

How to Stay Healthy this Winter

Ready for a positive spin on winter?  Okay, here it comes.  With all the time you spend indoors here in Connecticut, you have more time to unwind, catch up on your reading, and just take a breather from your otherwise busy lifestyle. That doesn’t sound so awful, does...
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