Making good window choices
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The number of choices available for windows can make your head spin, from materials, low-e coatings, number of glazing layers, and spacer type; to design decisions like opting for a full frame window replacement or not, choosing the type of window (slider, casement, or fixed), colour, divided lites, privacy options, opener mechanism, and more.
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Making good window choices
- 1. How to make good window choices
- 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. How to make good window choices
- 6. AGENDA
- 7. When should you replace windows?
- 9. Why windows?
- 10. R-value – glazing layers
- 11. R-value – spacers and gas
- 12. R-value – low-E coating • Low-E stands for ‘low emissivity‘ • Increases the R-value
- 13. R-value – low-E coating • Solar radiation through air
- 14. Solar heat gain coefficient and total visibility
- 15. Frame material pros and cons
- 16. Testing new windows – CSA A440
- 17. Quick interlude about moisture
- 18. Condensation on windows Problem is either: • 1. Too much moisture • 2. Surface of glass too cold
- 19. Fixed vs casement vs sliders
- 20. Fixed vs casement vs sliders
- 21. Questions?
- 22. Review 1. High R-value (i.e. Low U-value) is always good 2. Solar heat gain can be useful 3. Buy for no maintenance and good hardware
- 23. Sustainable Living Speaker Series - SPRING 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 April 2 Using Native Plants in Your Garden WithJeffThompson May 7 Pro Tips on using your Rain Barrel WithBrendanSchaefer June 4 Summer Holiday Green Guide WithLaura McDonald
- 24. 5 LESSONS now ONLINE 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
- 25. Put our coach to work for you Available until March 31 Learn more Use sign up sheet at the front! Call 519-744-9799 > Press 1 Email customerservice@reepgreen.ca reepgreen.ca/HomeEnergyCoach
- 26. 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