‘Cash for Caulkers’ — Firms that do energy audits could benefit from new federal funds

Dec 13, 2009 by nextstepliving
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Boston Globe – On a chilly Tuesday morning last week, Steve Garwood was pointing an orange hand-held infrared camera at the walls of Ceci Mendez’s bedroom, showing her where the 50-year-old home was letting in cold air from the outside. In Mendez’s basement, Shawn Boilard was cutting sections of foam insulation to be fitted around the pipes connected to Mendez’s furnace.

By the time Garwood, Boilard, and a third team member from Next Step Living Inc. left the house around lunchtime, they’d found ways to reduce Mendez’s annual energy bills by about $260 per year – and significantly reduce the carbon “footprint’’ of her small Roslindale home.

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