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News-Miner.com – 2005-10-16 – Tim Mowry

It can be as cheap and easy as turning off the lights in your cabin and walking around with a $5 can of spray foam insulation looking for cracks of sunlight, or as expensive and complicated as hiring a professional to install an "outside air resistor control" on your boiler for $800.

Either way, you’re going to save a few bucks on your heating bill. And with the price of home heating fuel in Fairbanks at

WOAI – 2005-10-11 – Mandy Bishop

When you buy something that has a "life time warranty," you expect any repairs to be covered. One San Antonio woman says when her expensive window tinting job began peeling off, the warranty shriveled up, as well. News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila helped her resolve the situation, and has important information about warranties.

The South Texas sun was too much for the window tint on Gloria Vasquez’s car. It’s now bubbling, and peeling off

Thomas Net – 2005-10-05 -

Surface Guard’s 45 Series Adhesive Masking Film for Protection of Matte and Lightly Textured Surfaces

Surface Guard Inc., a custom coater and converter of superior surface protection solutions, announces the 45 series adhesive masking film designed to protect "cool metal" finished building panels. This protective film series also provides excellent protection for matte and lightly textured surfaces, including plastic and metal surfaces.

Surface Guard’s 45 series film features a polyolefin film coated with a custom formulated, premium aqueous

Cresco Times – 2005-09-29 -

Take steps now

Natural gas prices are predicted to rise substantially this winter. Steps that home owners can take to minimize the impact of those increases were highlighted at a natural gas pricing forum hosted by Alliant Energy – Interstate Power and Light (IP&L). Experts spoke on natural gas pricing, weather forecasting and home weatherization.

Recently, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted residential natural gas customers could see an increase of 47 percent in home heating bills this

Wisconsin Public Service Corp. and Focus on Energy – 2005-09-25 – Richard Ryman

Higher costs

The cost of heating homes this winter will be more.

How much more depends on the weather and the cost of natural gas, but also on what people do to make heating their house more efficient.

Wisconsin Public Service Corp. has not issued an official prediction for winter heating costs, but utility spokesman Kerry Spees said, “It’s not looking good. It’s safe to predict they are going to significantly

TwinCities.com – 2005-09-25 –

Energy price shocks need no explanation as 2005′s oil, gasoline and natural gas costs devour both predictability and the actual dollars Minnesotans are shelling out to keep going or to stay warm enough as autumn foreshadows the heating season. Attention is riveted again on hurricane-induced spikes in gasoline prices. But east metro folks must also face the fact that an expected 30 percent increase in natural gas prices this season will hurt. What of school districts that

Starcott Media Services – 2005-09-24 – James Dulley

Question: I saw some do-it-yourself window film at a home center. Some films looked almost clear while others were darkly tinted. Will applying these reduce heat and fading? Which type is best?

Answer: Windows, especially those that face south and west, are one of the home’s greatest sources of heat gain. This not only makes your family uncomfortable and fades your furniture and carpeting, but it also increases your utility bills by making the

Hometips.com – 2005-09-22 –

Windows can be the most attractive features of a house, but they also can be the least energy efficient. Glass is not a great insulator, which means that windows are a major source of heat escaping or entering a home. How your windows are glazed can make a big difference in this dynamic.

Windows are rated according to how much heat can escape through the glass, measured by R-value, and by how much heat can escape through an

Union Tribune – 2005-09-18 – Brooke Williams

A Jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom is filled with gunk, and cobwebs cling to windows that look over San Diego. A rat’s skeleton is curled at the foot of the tub, and the cream-colored Berber carpet is tinged brown with mold.

The city of San Diego owns this vacant, two-story house on Desert View Drive, among million-dollar homes near the top of Mount Soledad. For more than a decade, the city has left it

Time Tribune – 2005-09-11 – Kris Fedysky

The new piece of crime-fighting equipment Taylor police recently implemented is no bigger than a child’s pencil case.

It will not stop a speeding bullet or measure a car’s speed. But what it will do is help Taylor police measure the amount of tint on a car’s windows and, hopefully, alleviate an ongoing safety concern.

Earlier this month, Taylor purchased four window tint meters at $89 apiece to help reduce the risk officers face when approaching