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Whether you actually save a large amount of money depends largely on how you previously approached your central heating: if you’re the type who only turns the heating on when icicles are hanging from your ears, you’ll see less benefit. 

For Strata Landscape Architecture, based in San Francisco, California, almost all of its projects in Hawaii feature an outdoor shower, and the company recently started integrating them into their California gardens after the success in Hawaii.

Park City paradise: Forbes magazine has described it as the "granddaddy of all estates." This posh, nine-bedroom mansion is enormous, with almost 16,000 square feet of living space. Stocked with every amenity imaginable, the contemporary ski-in and ski-out home is the ultimate in high-end winter vacationing. Santa had better bring his A-game when delivering toys to this luxe address.

Andy Boutin, general manager and founder of Pellergy (an advertiser in The Bridge) stresses the sustainability of  the industry in Vermont. “We have to separate that style of pellet manufacture with what happens in the Northeast,” he explains. “I would even broaden that to include all of New England and even Quebec. Every pellet that comes out of Quebec now is sawmill residue. So they are actually using waste product that would otherwise be left to rot or decompose.”

Local AHJ may also have something to say about it (most municipalities require a UL listed devices in order to issue a CO, and you can bet the insurance carrier will be equally as dilligent).

Plex certainly makes more sense on Google Home, with the device capable of streaming content to Chromecast natively. Current Alexa functionality leaves out support for Chromecast, meaning it could be popular with Plex users.

If your client is uncertain how they want to use their shower, inform them that some local codes require showers to drain into a sanitary sewer drain or septic if they plan to use it for bathing, while those that are for pool wash off generally do not have this requirement.

The competing stoves will feature WIFI connectivity, sensors and micro-processors that eliminate the need to manually adjust air flow and help ensure a much cleaner and efficient combustion. Other competing wood stoves and boilers will generate enough electricity to power everything from a cell phone to part of a home or electric vehicle. One European pellet boiler at the Design Challenge will be charging a Tesla.

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Heading down Madison toward Fourth Street, the restoration of the Whiteside Theater is continuing. If you look north along Fourth, you can see an odd circular hatch in the Whiteside’s flank. It’s welded shut now, but clearly it was once the entrance to a chute of some kind, running down into the theater’s basement. You can easily picture taking hold of that hatch, pulling it loose, and . . . what? Sliding down it if you were an adventurous (and slender) child, perhaps, but what was it really for?