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To: alanrs who wrote (69849)	6/29/2008 5:15:56 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Good point! Deciduous trees are great for sun in winter and shade in summer. It's nice of them to do that. Evergreens on our south west side keep the prevailing winds at bay. Unfortunately, we don't have land to our south west so we get wind blowing over houses, albeit interrupted by quite a lot of skin friction from trees all over the place. Mqurice

To: alanrs who wrote (69849)	6/29/2008 8:44:41 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I lived in an old house like that as a very young child, and I remember my father going down to the basement to shovel coal into the furnace. Soon we built a modern 1950s house with an oil-burning furnace. Then natural gas came to the neighborhood, and it was fun for us kids to watch the welders connecting pipes in the trenches. So we built a modern 1960s house heated by gas, but my mother would not part with her tried and true electric kitchen range. Now I'm back in a 1950s house, but I want to bring the insulation up to modern super-insulated condition. My neighbor around the block is remodeling his, so it's a good chance to see how these old houses are put together. I figure I'll add 4 inches of foam board on the outside. Inside I may add some staggered studs to increase the wall thickness from 4 inches to 6 inches. That would give me a total of 10 inches. Mq can live in an igloo if he wants to, but I want to be reasonably warm (at least 60 degrees F).