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6 Small improvements can pay off
Colorado Springs Home Improvements CAN Pay off
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Are you looking for improvements you can do to your Colorado Springs home? Here’s my list of 6 SMALL improvements that can pay off with Energy Savings.
- Programmable Thermostats: They can save you a couple of hundred dollars a year on your heating and cooling costs. You can
program it to lower the temp in the house while you sleep, and warm up the house just before you wake. Then lower the temp while you are at work and warm it up before you come home. - Insulation: It’s estimated that heat loss through walls, floors and the roof account for about 45% of heat loss (or cooling loss, in summer.)
- Tankless Hot Water Heaters: They provide hot water only when it’s needed, hence they remove the need for a big tank of hot water waiting in the basement.
- Energy Efficient Windows: They stop unwanted heat and cooling loss in winter and summer and they can also block harmful UV rays that fade carpets and furniture. (See: Colorado Springs home Improvement — it’s all about the windows)
- Compact Fluorescent Bulbs: It’s estimated that that these bulbs can save $56 over the life of each bulb. Multiply that by 40 bulbs which is the number of bulbs in an average home it amounts to big savings.
- Water Circulation System: How much water goes down the drain while you are waiting for it to warm up? It’s estimated that about 25 to 30 gallons of water daily can be wasted this way, 10,000 to 14,000 gallons annually. A water circulation system automatically recirculates colder water back to your water heater until it’s hot enough for use.
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Free local money for home improvements
Colorado Springs homeowners, check this out!
I just came across a very informative blog about free money, and cheap money. The blog detailed a local Colorado Springs program to 
help residents install energy efficient items in their houses. As usual when I come across an article like this, I like to go to the original source about the program so I can give even more information to my readers.
The City of Colorado Springs has an entire section of their web site dedicated to Housing Rehabilitation. I was impressed with the range of programs offered including Lights and Locks for Seniors, Emergency Repair, Energy Environment Economy Program, and Owner Occupant Rehab.
The Owner Occupant Rehab program is targeted towards low income home owners in Colorado Springs and can be used to improvement the energy efficiency of a house; including replacing windows, upgrading a furnace, adding insulation, upgrading plumbing. They have some criteria to qualify including you must live in the home and it must be valued less than $247,000. If you meet the income guidelines, your interest rate is 3%. Yes I did type it right, only 3%.
The web site includes the contact name at the City to get more information about all of the program.
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Are streetcars going to become a reality in Colorado Springs?
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I recently wrote a post on the Trolley Museum and how the volunteers are working so hard to bring back the trolley system that once ran in downtown Colorado Springs.
A coalition the includes the Downtown Partnership, Downtown Development Authority, Mountain Metropolitan Transit (our bus system) and Colorado College are looking for bids to study the feasibility of a streetcar line. This study will be done with Read the rest of this entry »
