Home energy coach: Tips on finishing your basement
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This Home Energy Coach presentation covers a number of design items relating to finishing a basement: from heating vents, to wiring, insulation, new flooring, studs, and lighting efficiency.
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Home energy coach: Tips on finishing your basement
- 1. Tips on finishing your basement
- 2. We are working to make sustainable living the norm • We are an environmental charity that helps people live sustainably • Our current focus is on climate change through residential energy efficiency and storm water management • Many of our services offered as a social enterprise • Serving Waterloo Region since 1999 Funding: Our funding comes from local partners, contracts, grants, client fees and your donations REEP Green Solutions
- 4. Tips on finishing your basement
- 5. Our AGENDA
- 6. General design considerations • get a permit • storage • soundproofing • pre-existing plumbing • minimum heights and room sizes • electrical load • energy efficiency • ductwork
- 9. Design of basement apartment Code dictated: Many elements of the code in play Local building code official will help Handouts available Too in-depth for this talk – Sorry!
- 11. Before finishing basement • Gas line for BBQ • Drain for main floor clothes washer pan • Run wires • Run central vac piping • Seal duct connections • Install balancing valves in ductwork • Replace galvanized water pipes • Install outside hose bibs
- 15. Floor considerations • insulation • waterproofing • drainage gap • levelness • flood-proof
- 16. Questions? What 3 things would you like more details on?
- 17. Overview 1. Get a permit 2. Spend enough time on the design 3. Design and build for the future
- 18. Future Home Energy Coach presentations & open houses March 5 How to make good window choices Presentation: 1:30 p.m. Open House 2—3:30 p.m. REEP House for Sustainable Living 20 Mill St., Kitchener Register in advance: reepgreen.ca
- 19. ANNOUNCING Home Energy 101 An informal online course that teaches step-by-step you about how to make your home energy efficient. Find a mix of videos and blog posts at: reepgreen.ca/HomeEnergy101
- 20. Put our coach to work for you To book an orientation or a home energy evaluation Learn more Use sign up sheet at the front! Call 519-744-9799 > Press 1 Email customerservice@reepgreen.ca reepgreen.ca/HomeEnergyCoach
- 21. Thank you to our core funders Thank you to our partners
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- REEP is a registered charity and social enterprise, serving Waterloo Region since 1999. We’ve been deep into a process of Strategic thinking about the impact we want to have in the community. From that process, we have a new mission, in draft form here: Working together to make sustainability the norm. The mission really sums up our relationship with you and with the City of Kitchener/Cambridge, and why we have the City’s logo right on the front cover: we really are working together with you, through your support, and seeing the changes in our community that Dave and I will outline in this report. Thank you for supporting all the work you’re about to hear about.
- (Philip’s notes: Clean gutters out, slide downspout back on after hitting it off with lawnmower, setup ladder on a nice day and look defeated at your bent gutter, wiggle it a bit, then head back down, knowing that you did all that you reasonably could have. Keep boxes away from walls, and off the basement floor Like a skunk in the house, if you just deal with the immediate unpleasantness, it’ll just come back later.
- (Philip’s notes: To avoid frozen pipes, place insulation between them and the wall wherever they are accessible. To avoid burst pipes – generally from rubber clothes washer hoses, use stainless steel braided hoses (best) along with a washer pan, install a water-hammer arrestor beside clotheswasher (okay solution), install shutoff solenoid that detects when water shouldn’t be flowing ($150?), be VERY cautious if you use an auto-shutoff hose (could have issues, $20). To avoid sewer backups, install backflow preventer (caution to not break drain lines when breaking concrete) Hot water tank leak – is there a drain nearby? If not, install pan with leak-detector inside Sources: Leak detectors: Floodmaster (1-888-776-6544) Amazon ($10 to $370) Watercop (whole house system with multiple detectors) Drain pan – amazon ($30) Auto shut off valves- timer – Home hardware ($90) Watts (1-905-332-4090) Floodsafe products for dishwashers, clotheswashers, ice machine/water dispenser in fridge (~$18-$23 per hose) & toilets. Might not work as anticipated.
- Everyone should know where shut-off valve is in home Replace pipes that are in poor condition Braided water hoses and catchment pans Install backflow preventer in main sewer line Check eavesthroughs and downspouts at least 2x a year Soil should slope away from your home Install longer downspouts if required Install dimple membrane – tied to weeping tile if possible Weeping tile should connect to sump pump – test 2x a year Double sump pump with battery backup is available