Thousands of thermal images from homes from all over Hamilton and Wenham have been collected and homeowners can look at their home and find out on Saturday how to make energy-saving improvements.
Is your home “zipped up?” You can now get online, see a thermal image of your home and find out whether it is zipped up. And if your home is not all zipped up, you can spend a few hours on Saturday morning at Hamilton-Wenham Library finding out how you can make it more energy efficient and save money on the improvements. Last March, a crew from Sagewell went through both Hamilton and Wenham with a thermal imaging machine. Since it was late winter, the images showed which part of each home was holding in the hot air and where hot air was getting out – all a measure of energy efficiency. Thermal images were captured of about 3,000 of the 4,400 homes combined in the two towns. “If your home is too far back from the road or there are trees in …
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Hamilton-Wenham Green is sponsoring a program that will collect thermal images of local buildings to figure out which ones are most eligible for weatherization upgrades.
Thermal images of local homes will help identify the homes that are most eligible to make meaningful weatherization upgrades in a program scheduled to begin in the next few weeks. Organizers of the program, Hamilton-Wenham Green, are hosting an informational meeting on Tuesday night to further explain the program and answer questions. One in five homeowners can retrofit their home and start saving money in less than three years, according to Sagewell President and CEO Pasi Miettinen. The initial analysis is free and there are many government programs available that pay for the upgrades. Sagewell is a Woburn company that scans buildings using thermal imaging and then evaluates the data and passes it on the building owner. Sagewell will …
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5:52 pm on Saturday, October 1, 2011
I attended the seminar this morning and it was terrific! Many thanks to Sue and to all the presenters. Also, thank you to Sue and Arlene who urged the attendees to check out the NESEA open house at The Old House at Appleton Farms. The Trustees of Reservations have just completed a deep energy retrofit of the house and it is a stunning example of what can be done to a derelict old house to bring … more ›