"It is indeed a challenge to retain those historic windows, etc. but I think any contractor can remodel it maybe by adding blinds, etc. nothing is impossible now."
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Shade Structures replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic HomeShade Structures joined John Poole's group
Historic Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
George Chura joined John Poole's groupHistoric Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
James Robert Pender joined John Poole's groupHistoric Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
Chip Kiper joined John Poole's groupHistoric Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
Bill Bradbury replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic Home"Hi John,
I don't internet much either.
I install the bottom furring strip in pieces and usually have enough left over from the other 3 sides to piece together the bottom. This is the only time I use that funky PVC wood. I keep the holes small,…"
Kevin Brauer joined John Poole's groupHistoric Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
Simon Craig joined John Poole's groupHistoric Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
Sean Skorton joined John Poole's groupHistoric Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
David Bailey replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic Home"Larson is a manufacturer with national distribution of interior and exterior storm windows. See: http://www.larsondoors.com/storm_windows/ for more information."
Sean Feurtado joined John Poole's groupHistoric Home
Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.See More
John Poole replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic Home"This is great, John. Thanks very much for posting these links here...
~John"
John Poole replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic Home"Hi John,
Thanks very much for contributing all this information. It looks like a few of the links were broken when I tried them. In particular, the "Buy AEP -Kit" button is broken on both the Windo-Therm and AEP home pages and I…"
John Poole replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic Home"Hi Chris. Thanks very much for added this to the forum. The information and test data they provide seems rather substantial. But I agree with you -- it'd be great to hear from any one else who's installed these or a similar reflective…"
John Poole replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic Home"Thanks Steve. I'm accumulating a list of links to manufacturers, so will include this one. Appreciate it!"
John Poole replied to John Poole's discussion Historic Windows: UV and Thermal Transfer in the group Historic Home"Thanks very much Bill, for describing your exterior storm solution (sorry I'd neglected to reply when you first posted this a year ago). Question I have is: Do you drill weep holes in the bottom furring strip supporting the exterior storm? And…"
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- Birmingham Point Preservationists
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- Old home preservation and energy efficient remodels of very old homes, with minimal impact or compromise of historic import or vernacular character. We strive to identify the best possible energy efficiency practices currently emerging from the building sciences field, and formulate construction strategies to effectively adapt these practices to very old homes.
With extensive backgrounds in mathematics and the computational sciences, we are also interested in developing integrated solutions for home performance measurement, data capture/reduction/analysis, and control of home energy systems.
Also interested in the overall problem of distributed co-generation of energy in the smart-grid environment and where ever we can help out in that emerging problem space.
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- http://birminghampoint.co
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- @birminghampoint
John Poole's Blog
Three Simple Acts That Can Make A Difference
This past April 22nd was Earth Day 2011, and it's official theme was A Billion Acts of Green. The basic idea is that, if at least a billion of us each pledged to perform some relatively simple “act of green”, we’d all be that much closer to a greener, more sustainable world. Here are examples of three simple, relatively low cost (lightweight, if you…
ContinuePosted on May 5, 2011 at 1:39pm
How To Kill A Watt While Sizing a UPS
In my last two posts, I described some basic water conservation measures we’ve taken at the Poole Ancestral Homestead. We’ll return to that topic in the near future. But for now, I’ve turned my attention to optimizing our home’s use of electric power.
Utility-provided electricity is often an expensive form of energy. And it’s seldom efficient, because coal- and gas-fired plants (from which most of us get our electricity) actually waste a great deal of energy in the form of heat…
ContinuePosted on March 28, 2011 at 6:00am
Low-Flow Aerators All Around
Today, another small step on the Poole Ancestral Homestead’s journey to deep-energy-retrofit nirvana was taken, and it consisted of installing low-flow aerators on all of our faucets. [article]
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 8:00pm
A Long Journey Begins With A (Low-Flow) Shower
They say a long journey begins with a few small steps. Yesterday, I unofficially initiated the long-term energy retrofit of the Poole Ancestral Homestead by simply installing a water saving showerhead.
The new showerhead is a 1.5 gallon-per-minute, all brass, chrome finished, Victorian-styled showerhead made by Danze, which I obtained from my friends at Energy Circle...[…
ContinuePosted on March 17, 2011 at 6:00pm
Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 10:39am on May 9, 2011,
Chris Laumer-Giddens said… Thanks, John. Back at you!
What's going on this week? I thought about you when I was in Savannah the week before last. Maybe you and I could co-write a blog post about brining energy efficiency to historic homes.
What do you think?
- At 6:30am on March 22, 2011, Chris Laumer-Giddens said…
- Sounds great!
- At 3:47am on March 22, 2011, Chris Laumer-Giddens said…
Hey John! I would love to take a look at what you come up with. I've heard of a lot of people struggling with historic district review boards about making energy upgrades to their homes. The debate is a tough one, but I know we can find common ground. I think we'll get there through education. This is a great place to start!
Where is the presentation going to be? And, will it be recorded?!?!?! Would love to see that. Any chance I could get a copy of the presentation after the event?
- At 3:38pm on March 21, 2011,
Juliana Inman said… - Hello, cousin! I just found this group based on your recent post on facebook (connecting the world, indeed). I look forward to learning more and contributing to the group. Regards, cousin "Elinore" aka Juliana
- At 2:04pm on March 21, 2011, Chris Laumer-Giddens said…
Well done, John! Congrats!
BTW, I'm really looking forward to the discussions on the Historic Home Group!
I may not have said anything to you before, but went through Preservation Field School at the University of Hawai'i. I'm a big fan of preservation work, and would like to do a loooooooot more.
- At 9:12am on March 21, 2011, Bill Smith said…
- John, thanks for the comment. I hope the group will be a resource for us old-building geeks (and us old building-geeks).
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