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Jul 12, 2020
3 min

A Cool Home in Summer Heat

July 26, 2020. 10 am. It’s 32 degrees and muggy. It’s been stinkin’ hot for weeks. It’s fine if you have air and live by water. It’s not ...

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Snow, ice and your hydro and internet wires: take action to keep your home connected!

Gary Martin

Mar 3, 2020
3 min

Snow, ice and your hydro and internet wires: take action to keep your home connected!

Last week we got 15 cms of soggy snow...then the temperature went to -15 and everything froze solid, colline de bins. Shoveling was tough...

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Not Singin’ in the Rain: Basements and Water

Gary Martin

Feb 17, 2020
4 min

Not Singin’ in the Rain: Basements and Water

Despite the flooding on the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers in 2017 and 2019, I'm not really concerned about rivers flooding: I'm way more pum...

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Some notes on heat and cold and moisture in your home

Gary Martin

Feb 15, 2020
3 min

Some notes on heat and cold and moisture in your home

Woke up to -28 this morning in Wakefield. A bit of a shocker considering the weather's been pretty mild this winter. Compared to last yea...

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A burning need to know: protecting your home from fire

Gary Martin

Feb 7, 2020
2 min

A burning need to know: protecting your home from fire

This blog post is about fire coming from outside of your home. This past week I attended the CatIQ Conference in Toronto for the third ti...

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Gary Martin

Jan 29, 2020
1 min

Chicken Little: Is the sky falling?

no it's not

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