Blincoe mainly for the sake of being in a house with central heating.
He put on sweaters and two jackets and remembered that the house had no functioning heating system.
Completed in 2011, the other end of the structure is a four-story, 4, 000-square-foot house with under-floor heating, solar panels, low-energy appliances and the latest in triple-glazed windows.
About half of a typical family's carbon emissions come from heating and cooling the house.
With midterm elections less than five weeks away, House races around the country are heating up.
These days most medals are awarded at the White House, but with the war heating up, such a long trip was out of the question.
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The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service are focusing their investigations on a heating system in the reptile house.
He did silly things: donning a cardigan sweater, and turning down the temperature and installing solar water heating panels in the White House.
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Meanwhile central heating is sometimes wasted on the whole house when you only need heat a room.
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David Dwyer, the contractor who built the Yerke family's home and installed their geothermal system, says that if you have an old and drafty house you should, before putting in a fancy heating system, put in new windows, seal leaks and add insulation.
To bring down the house's energy use, the team installed geothermal heating and cooling.
The product claims to help you save up to 20% on your heating and cooling bills, while ensuring the house is always warm when you get out of bed.
Through much of the 2000 campaign for the White House, particularly in the early primary season when home heating oil prices were rising steadily in the Northeast, Bush blasted the Clinton administration for not "jawboning" members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase production.
House-builders and employers are pressing for more houses, and the over-heating housing market seems to support their case.
We have very thick walls which insulate the house perfectly and on sunny days in winter we don't have to use the heating.
The house was also designed to consume minimal energy and incorporates a number environmentally friendly features, including geothermal heating and cooling and recycled tile floors and countertops.
In coming weeks, the House is committed to major legislation reforming our border security and immigration laws, alleviating the rising costs of gasoline and heating fuel before the winter, and saving tens of billions of dollars through reforming federal entitlement programs.
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