We recently put up a clothesline in our basement. Dryers are such an energy hog, and killing our Hydro bill. It would also be nice to wrap our hot water heater in a "blanket" which further insulates the hot water tank, and insulate the first 6 feet of pipe that leads into the house.
Manitoba has a lot of incentives to increase the energy efficiency of your house and make upgrades. That, along with the new rebate program from the Federal government makes things a little more affordable.
It would also be nice to upgrade our furnace. It was installed around 1980, and is about 65% efficient. It would be nice to have a high efficiency furnace, so we aren't throwing away half of the money we spend each month on an inefficient furnace. Manitoba Hydro will let you finance a new furnace through them, and just add it to your monthly hydro bill.
Other future projects include replacing our windows with better insulated ones, and maybe one or two that open, as the windows on our main floor don't open. Insulating our attic would also be nice. It is a good 5 degrees colder upstairs than it is downstairs, and I think a lot of that heat loss is through the walls/ceiling of the second floor.
So these are a few of the things that we want to do in the coming years, to improve our house.
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