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My Take: Water – Energy Efficiency, Codes & Plans

Whew, finally I got some time to play catch up on stuff around the house, emails, and shoot maybe I might even be able to get an article done. While I had a few topics I was thinking about, one item popped up as I was going through my emails & left me shaking my head […]

Filed Under: Water Related Tagged With: Water June 20, 2016 By SLS

#KBTribeChat: Saving Water – a precious resource

Every Wednesday at 2PM ET, I try my best to catch #KBTribeChat on Twitter where many of the industries best & brightest designers, manufacturers & contractors get together and take on a topic. This weeks is “Saving Water – a precious resource.” Unfortunately I will be missing this weeks chat, but as I feel this is such an important […]

Filed Under: Water Related Tagged With: Water September 23, 2015 By SLS

Going Off Grid in the 21st Century: Water Filtration

Lately in our going off the grid series we have been focusing on water where we have covered everything from pumping & storing the water, to rain water harvesting & we even looked into greywater systems. This has brought us to one of the most important points we need to remember and that is that […]

Filed Under: Off-Grid Living, Water Related Tagged With: radon, Water April 19, 2012 By SLS

Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century – Getting the Water where it’s needed

Living in today’s modern homes, life is great – we turn on the tap & the water just flows out. In most cases, we have no idea where it comes from, how it gets to our house leaving us with our only concern of how much is it to connect to the water main for […]

Filed Under: Off-Grid Living, Water Related Tagged With: Water February 16, 2012 By SLS

Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century – Water

As a brief recap, in our on-going series about going off-grid in the 21st Century, we have covered numerous options from powering ones home to handling waste. This has led us up to one of our most basic needs: water. For our first article in this series, I am going to turn it over to […]

Filed Under: Off-Grid Living, Water Related Tagged With: Guest Article's, Water December 15, 2011 By SLS

Safety Sunday: Boil Water Notices & Advisories FAQ’s

Fortunately for many individuals affected by the tornados, the local water utilities were able to keep everything up to snuff eliminating the need to issue to a Boil Water Notice or Advisory. I only recall hearing about three communities / regions affected were they were issued. One of those communities is actually were my wife […]

Filed Under: Disaster Preparation, Food Safety, Water Related Tagged With: Safety Sunday, Water May 8, 2011 By SLS

Re-piping Your House: The PEX Solution

In yesterday’s Safety Sunday article on Staying Lead Safe in One’s Own Home, we briefly talked about issues with older pipes that contain lead in them.  Shortly after that on Twitter I was discussing a bathroom plumbing issue where I recommended that they check out PEX piping to re-pipe those fixtures. While I love Twitter […]

Filed Under: Remodeling & Renovations, Water Related Tagged With: Plumbing April 25, 2011 By SLS

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