In many regions of the world water is scarce or polluted and in mountainous regions the populations often live higher in the mountains than where they have to walk to in order to get water. But in many of these regions the clouds billow over the top of the mountains, keeping them shrouded mu...
Straw is considered an agricultural waste product, which makes it quite inexpensive when people want to use it as a primary house building material. Straw bales, covered in stucco have been used in the dry prairies for hundreds of years. It is now becoming a serious alternative house buildi...
Ecologix Heating Technologies Inc221 Holiday Inn Drive #2Cambridge, Ontario N3C 3T2Tel: 519-658-4330 e-Mail: info@ecologix.ca "www.ecologix.ca"I know I'm always lecturing you about heating for a cold climate, but air conditioning is very important in Canada and especially in the US. In fact, ...
Light in a home that approaches the qualities of sunlight can definitely improve your moods and actually improve your general health. Studies about lighting have shown that the spectrum of the light around us, the actual wavelengths of light, are important and natural fluctuations in intensi...
We visited a demonstration solar energy house in Guelph, Ontario and Teresa Paul from Nexus Solar Corp. who designed it. In this very standard looking house we could see the bringing together of all the basic concepts of solar energy for both winter and summer. To emphasise that this did no...
Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cad) batteries are the most common of the rechargeable batteries.They can be regular looking batteries that you recharge in special charging blocks, or they can be the specialized batteries that you find in cell phones and power tools. Although rechargeable, they eventually ne...
All air conditioners have a passage for room air to flow into the unit, flow over the cold side of the compressor coil and return to the room. This both cools the air and condenses some of the moisture out of the room air, which makes the room dryer, more comfortable and easier to cool. Wit...
In this episode we collected a whole bunch of interesting electronic devices that will help you with safety and security around your home.Many people worry about the health effects of electromagnetic fields caused by wiring and appliances. A gauss meter is what scientists use to measure the s...
This time I collected some toilets and toilet accessories that you may have never heard of.
The North Vent is a new Canadian invention designed to draw the bathroom exhaust air directly from inside the toilet bowl -- you can't get any closer to the source of the pollution. It uses a good squirre...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Adhesives Product: Contact Cement - Water Based (Solvent Free)
Temperature Limitations: Use above +18 C (+65 F)
Rain Limitations: Dry surface
Wind Limitations: High winds will accelerate sett...
