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Safety Sunday: Halloween – 10 tips for Trick & Treaters

Would it really be Halloween without all those ghosts, goblins, and witches running around going Trick or Treat? From our great friend Nick @ Cupboards Kitchen & Bath 19 Interesting Facts on Halloween we can see that it has been going on since the 1800’s in America. As stated – “the end of the Harvest […]

Filed Under: Safety Third? Tagged With: Halloween, Holiday, Safety Sunday October 31, 2010 By SLS

RESNET’s New Standard for Energy Auditor’s

As I mentioned in last week’s article on Ethics, RESNET has released a new standard for Energy Auditors that fortuitously helps me out on an article I have been working on for a while – namely, what is an Energy Audit, an Assessment, a Rating, & are they all the same?  While some may consider […]

Filed Under: Infrared, Code Verification, & Energy Audits Tagged With: RESNET October 28, 2010 By SLS

Safety Sunday: Halloween – having a shockingly good time

Ahhh Halloween, with all the trick and treaters, haunted houses, costume parties and balls; easily turns a regular night into and oh so fun night. Quite a few of my friends actually spend more time planning for Halloween & decorating than they do for Christmas & it appears that this idea has been spreading.  Instead […]

Filed Under: Safety Third? Tagged With: Halloween, Holiday, Safety Sunday October 24, 2010 By SLS

Ethics – RESNET, NARI & BPI

Earlier this week, RESNET sent an email out informing everyone about a new code of ethics they implemented on October 8th. Besides the obvious oopsie at the bottom, I didn’t really think twice about it and I figured a simple & quick article like the one I did on the NARI Code of Ethics, would […]

Filed Under: Ethics, Infrared, Code Verification, & Energy Audits Tagged With: BPI, NARI, RESNET October 20, 2010 By SLS

Let’s Blog Off: What is there to be optimistic about?

This week’s LetsBlogOff asks a relatively simple question; Is there a reason to be optimistic? When I first saw the topic earlier last week, my answer was hell yes. Here comes the weekend & I was simply going, who flipping cares & why bother? Fortunately, I did not write this article during that time, because […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Blog Off October 19, 2010 By SLS

Safety Sunday: Bag your gear

For today’s Safety Sunday tip, I am going to turn it over to a good friend of mine – John D. Poole* of Birmingham Point. . . . . . That’s right: Bag your safety gear! No, I don’t mean discard it. A practice I’ve established for myself is using a gear bag for dedicated […]

Filed Under: Safety Third? Tagged With: Guest Article's, Safety Sunday October 17, 2010 By SLS

Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. This year’s topic is water & at this moment, over 4,700 bloggers in 134 different countries have […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles, Water Conservation, WaterSense Tagged With: Blog Off, Water October 15, 2010 By SLS

Say what… aka the acronym dilemma

I still remember it like yesterday, my partner in crime was talking to a whole bunch of suits – “While we tried to eliminate most of the TLA’s, three letter acronym’s, there are still a few we can’t get around, so if you have a question about one, please feel free to stop us & […]

Filed Under: FAQ's, Acronym’s, & Terminology October 14, 2010 By SLS

Daily5Remodel: Socially Connected Remodelers

As seen on Daily5Remodel (which unfortunately has come to a close) & written by Leah Thayer: “Businesses are waking up to the possibilities of social media,” according to a special section in today’s Wall Street Journal. “Corporations can ignore [social media] and be subject to their use or figure them out and leverage them,” said an […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Guest Posting October 14, 2010 By SLS

Product Review: Feeney Architectural Curved Canopy

While attending the Remodeling Show in Baltimore, I stumbled across an interesting product that could potenialy solve a problem I have had on the back burner for a while. This issue involved the house featured in the Looking Back series & the front French doors. Unfortunately, the doors were facing almost due west and because […]

Filed Under: Product Reviews, Remodeling & Renovations Tagged With: Exterior Projects October 11, 2010 By SLS

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