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Anniversary of landmark Beastie Boys album offers perfect opportunity for Hintonburg Public House owner Summer Baird to celebrate her love of legendary group BY DAVID SALI

ummer Baird has found the perfect excuse to put one of her favourite bands on steady rotation on the playlist at her Wellington Street West pub and restaurant. The owner of the Hintonburg Public House has always been a big fan of the Beastie Boys, the groundbreaking hip-hop group from New York City that catapulted to fame with the 1986 album Licensed to Ill. This year happens to be the 30th anniversary of the Beasties’ classic followup Paul’s Boutique – today regarded as a hip-hop masterpiece – and Baird and some of her customers decided it was time to celebrate the band and its legacy. “We’ve been talking about this for a couple of years now,” says Baird, noting one of her regulars, local graphic artist Adam Hughes, is also a big fan of the band. “We both really like the Beastie Boys, and we were talking about doing a group show and how it would be fun.” The result is a two-month series of events at HPH called Grand Royal: A Beastie Boys Tribute. From Sept. 3 to Nov. 4, the pub will host activities that include a Beastiesthemed bingo game, a trivia night to test superfans’ knowledge of the group as well as a listening party featuring the group’s music and videos and two evenings when the bar’s regular “colouring” nights – where customers get to colour sheets designed by local artists – will also be devoted to the band. The two-month Beasties extravaganza will also feature works from half a dozen

local artists, including Hughes. Baird has even set up her own version of “Paul’s Boutique” based on the fictional Manhattan clothing store depicted in the album’s cover photo, where she’s offering Beasties-themed merchandise – such as T-shirts emblazoned with the words “She’s Crafty” after a song from Licensed to Ill. In addition, local craft brewery Whiprsnapr has created a new beer for the occasion called A Grand Royal, License to Lager that plays on the name of the group’s breakthrough album. Several of the events, including the bingo game and the trivia contest, will raise funds for the Parkdale Food Centre. The way Baird sees it, it’s a tribute to a legendary group that aids a great cause. And it’s got an added bonus – for the next two months, she can play the Beastie Boys as often as she likes and have no problem justifying it. “I think that’s actually where it stems from originally: ‘How can we listen to Beastie Boys and get away with it all the time in the dining room?’” she says with a

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laugh. “I love all of their music – even their newer stuff.” The popular Wellington Street establishment has hosted themed art shows in the past, but never anything this elaborate. Baird says customers get “pretty excited” when they hear about the idea. “It’s a first for us, and we’re having a lot of fun with it,” she says. For more information, go to hintonburgpublichouse.ca.

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IMPROVING THE STREETSCAPE The construction of dedicated, architecturally detailed banks became more common in the 1920s and 1930s, helping improve the streetscape of a neighbourhood’s main thoroughfare. This is exemplified in the wonderful 1920s former Bank of Nova Scotia building in Hintonburg at the corner of Wellington and Rosemount Avenue (now occupied by the Canadian Dental Hygienists Association). That branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia had originally opened on the same site in early 1912 in a two-storey red brick house (previously the dress-making shop of Madame Proulx), under the Bank of Ottawa name (that institution merged with the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1919). Hintonburg was also home for many years to the Caisse Populaire St. Francois D’Assise/Champlain, which dates back to

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1911. Originally operated on the church property, it moved across the street into a former pool hall in 1956. It burned down on Christmas Eve 1999. In between Hintonburg and Westboro is Wellington Village, where there is a Bank of Montreal at the corner of Huron Avenue (which opened in 1947). But the Bank of Montreal actually first arrived in the neighbourhood in January 1929 when it was the first occupant of the building that is today Pizza Pizza at 1197 Wellington! Wellington Village also has a TD bank at the corner of Holland Avenue. That bank first arrived in the neighbourhood in January 1929 but was originally located at 1256 Wellington (now Muriel Dombret’s shop). It moved to the corner of Holland in April 1937 in a new building, which was later replaced with the current one around 1970. Other banks in Wellington Village over the years have included the CIBC from 1954 until about 2000 at 1335 Wellington (now Supply and Demand) and Royal Bank from 1947 until 1963 at 1275 Wellington (now Flock Boutique). Of course, Kitchissippi is also home to the Canadian Bank Note Company on Richmond Road (as of 1950) and the former British American Bank Note Company on Gladstone Avenue, producers of Canada’s bank notes and other important documents. As you can see, there is a lot of banking history right here in Kitchissippi!

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Far left: A 1907 newspaper ad for the Crown Bank of Canada. Left: A 1953 newspaper ad for Westboro’s new Bank of Toronto building. Above: The former Bank of Nova Scotia building at Wellington and Rosemount.

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measurements; they agree that it’s too loud and the commitment is there to bring that noise level down. The noise is not due to the engine – it’s due to the steel wheels on the steel rails. Right now, those rails haven’t been ground, so they’re uneven. At whatever microscopic level, they’re pockmarked – they’re not smooth. Rail grinding is the first step to see if we can alleviate some of that noise. And then if that doesn’t work, the city is going to explore what they call rail dampening, which is to put some kind of rubber between the ties that will absorb more sound. I have let the city know that I’m not going to be happy until the noise is at least as quiet as the previous buses. KT: What about the official plan? Can you describe in layman’s terms what the “five big moves” are that the city is looking at in its official plan review and where its priorities should be? JL: It’s really important that people understand what the official plan is. The province is in charge of land use planning in Ontario. They’ve delegated decisions to the corporations called municipalities. The province has told cities, you are going to grow through intensification near transit. That’s the provincial policy statement. So in big broad strokes, our official plan is going to set out

how Ottawa is going to grow through intensification. And that means we’re going to intensify near transit. Every planning decision that the city makes is going to be looked at through the lens of the official plan. The official plan has to abide by the provincial direction that we grow through intensification. KT: And what exactly are the “five big moves”? JL: The first big shift that we’re looking at is an even greater focus on intensification. In our planning horizon going to 2042, over half of the new builds in Ottawa should be (through) intensification – that is, growth near transit stations, growth on traditional mainstreets, growth near big employment centres. The second big move is that we want most of our trips to be accomplished by something other than private automobile. Right now, our target is not that aggressive. The third one is a greater focus on urban design. If we’re going to intensify, that means more tall towers near our transit stations, more dense developments on our transitional mainstreets, more infill. If we’re going to have a greater variety of (business and residential) mixed cheek by jowl with each other, and they’re going to be denser, what are the parameters around

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that to maintain livable communities? How will those be designed? What is the shape of those buildings? What kind of setbacks do we need for them? We have that in nascent form; we have highrise guidelines, we have midrise guidelines, we have infill guidelines. How do we make those have greater teeth and what should they be? The fourth big move is a resilient city. In a way that we have not seen in previous versions of the official plan, (there is) a recognition of climate change and building a city that is resilient in the face of climate change. Big move No. 5 is around economic development.

explicit way. We need to be very thoughtful about the different effects that climate change has on the privileged versus the vulnerable. I’m nervous about how thoughtful we’re going to be about intensification. We can’t just take the reins off and let the developers have at it. For example, we are making the common-sense move to intensify near transit. But we have not got enough of a focus on making sure that intensification is going to be affordable. The people who can best take advantage of public transit like LRT, we don’t want them forced to live in Bells Corners because house prices in Westboro are too high. On Scott Street, we have approved a parade of very tall buildings. And that is in keeping with the direction of the official plan. None of them incorporate any affordable housing components. So the people who are going to be able to live on Scott Street – which over time is going to be turned into a nice, complete street with cycle tracks, it’s right next to LRT – the only people who are going to be able to afford to live in that great neighbourhood, around the corner from Richmond Road’s amenities, the Farm Boy, the great schools in the neighbourhood, the green space that’s available, Westboro Beach, will be the rich. And that is not a thoughtful way to pursue intensification. Our most vulnerable are going to continue to be pushed out to neighbourhoods like Bells Corners and Vanier that don’t have the same level of amenities. And that means that the strain on our non-LRT public transit is just going to be that much higher. We need to think about things like fares and routes to make sure we’re not wholly focused on LRT in our transportation master plan. If the official plan speaks to people’s vulnerabilities, then when we’re developing our transportation master plan through that official plan lens, I hope we’ll be more thoughtful about the intensification behind that. The nice thing is, we’re not going to pass the new official plan until 2022. The five big moves are the right ones, and we have

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Westboro entrepreneur making it work in the ’hood Maher Arar set to bring co-working concept to Kitchissippi with second Coworkly location BY DAVID SALI

hen Westboro resident Maher Arar was searching for the perfect place to open a new co-working space in Ottawa, he didn’t have to look far. Arar, who opened his first facility to house temporary office workers in early 2018 in Vanier, found the ideal space right in his own backyard on the second floor of a commercial building at 371A Richmond Rd., next to trendy children’s clothing retailer West End Kids and across the street from Mountain Equipment Co-Op. The 2,500-square-foot venue, known

as Coworkly, officially opens on Sept. 3. It features space for about 15 workers in a common area as well as a couple of private offices with half a dozen dedicated desks. Tenants can rent space by the day or the month, park their laptops at an empty desk and come and go as they please. “Our strategy is to go closer to where people live,” says Arar, who lives just a five-minute walk from the newest Coworkly location. “We’re going to help people hopefully save on commute time.” The veteran entrepreneur says he hopes the space becomes a breeding ground for cool new business ideas that one day

turn into the capital’s next great wave of companies. “I want the incubation and the business advice and the help to happen organically and naturally here,” he explains. “Here, we want to make sure that everyone knows everyone else’s first name at least, if not their life story.” The site isn’t meant for “people in suits,” Arar elaborates, but rather for the roll-upyour-sleeve type of founders who want to build companies from the ground up. He has plenty of them at his Vanier location, he notes, and is hoping to create the same kind of vibe in Westboro.

“Those are people in the trenches,” he says. “They’re not people who are going to teach you theory. This is the kind of dynamics I want to recreate here. The space is part of the story. The community is the bigger story.” Although the co-working movement is gaining momentum in Ottawa – real estate services firm CBRE estimates more than 300,000 square feet of facilities aimed at temporary workers are either already operating or soon to be launched in the National Capital Region – no such spaces existed in Westboro until now. Westboro Village BIA executive director Michelle Groulx says the neighbourhood was long overdue for a venture like Arar’s. “For the professional or the freelancer or very small business, there is nothing available in Westboro Village,” she says. “You know that people want to come because you see all these coffee shops that are full of people with laptops. When you see all of those people now have a space to go to, obviously they come to Westboro Village because it’s a great vibe, but also to get out of their homes and interact with other people.”

include Switzerland-based International Workplace Group, which is set to open 75,000 square feet of new co-working space downtown at 66 Slater St. this fall under its Spaces banner. But he believes Coworkly has the right formula to go head-to-head against the big boys and win. He’s already planning to take over another 2,500 square feet of adjacent space next spring and eventually hopes to occupy the entire second floor at 371A Richmond, which covers about 7,500 square feet. “We are trying to be different,” he says. “The space, I would say, is just 20 per cent of the entire story. The other 80 per cent is community, how you operate, how you market, how you brand yourself. We’re trying to build a homogeneous community.”

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Like most of its competitors in the increasingly crowded co-working space, Coworkly offers a range of services such as WiFi, kitchen space and private phone booths targeted at the growing number of freelancers, consultants, contractors and other “on-demand” workers who don’t have regular offices. Monthly plans at his Vanier location start at $100 a month for part-time members, rising to $200 for full-time members with unlimited daytime visiting privileges. Private office space starts at $1,000 a month for four-member team, while individuals can also purchase day passes for $20. Conceding that co-working is a “tough business,” Arar says smaller operations such as his have to find ways of differentiating themselves from multinational giants that

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few years ago, Euphoria Hair Salon owner Mike Fulga began to notice that rent for commercial spaces in Wellington West was on the rise. Concerned that the increasing cost of commercial space would hinder new, small, mom-and-pop businesses from putting down roots in the area, he set out to find ways to support them. “We don’t want to lose small businesses and be taken over by giant companies who are the only ones who can afford to be here,”

Fulga says. “It will change our community, and it won’t be that interesting, trendy neighbourhood anymore.” Turning to European cities for inspiration, the business owner soon came up with the idea of creating a street food market. “The idea came just from being in this neighbourhood for a long time and watching how it’s evolved,” he says. “The idea is something you would see in artistic cities, and since this area is quite artistic, I see it working out.” A pilot project launched this year to

test Fulga’s idea. Three businesses – Yakko Takko, Roasted Coffee and Piccolo Grande Gelato – started sharing Fulga’s patio at 1195 Wellington St., which borders onto Hamilton Avenue. “They are sharing different areas of the space, and they are sharing it at different times,” says Fulga. “I like the street food idea, because no one vendor can really (cover) all of the expenses with a large space like a garden and a patio.” The idea really is a simple one. Multiple businesses share the same space during various time slots throughout the day and

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”The idea is something you would see in artistic cities, and since this area is quite artistic, I see it working out.” – Euphoria Hair Salon owner Mike Fulga, on the new street food market on his patio

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dessert,” he adds. “It’s also helpful that it’s outdoors, because I don’t think we have anything like that in Ottawa. It’s essentially an outdoor food court.” Ejov, who has another Piccolo Grande location in the Byward Market, says he wanted to enter the Wellington West neighbourhood for a while. He looked at different spaces throughout the community but couldn’t find anything that met his needs and budget. Fulga says he hopes to expand the service in the next few months and has already started building a patio on the second floor of his hair salon. He is just waiting for the city’s permission to add a staircase up to the space and will then start looking for a new tenant. As the space grows and more people become aware of the concept, the salon

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n Ottawa organization dedicated to protecting the environment has teamed up with a Hintonburg merchant to cultivate “urban forests” in an effort to fight climate change and ensure people have access to healthy local food. Ecology Ottawa has a bold goal of planting tens of thousands of trees in the next few years, and the group is now one step closer to making that happen thanks to its recent three-month partnership with Maker House, a Kitchissippi furniture business. The store opened at 987 Wellington St. four years ago and immediately started a program called craft change, under which Maker House donates two per cent of its earnings to community organizations each quarter. “The craft change program has really been a part of our DNA since the beginning,” says Gareth Davies, owner of the Hintonburg shop that sells handcrafted furniture. “We wanted to give back because we wanted to make sure that there is a clear, community benefit to what we are doing.” Davies says the store has donated more than $60,000 to 15 local charities and organizations since the fall of 2015, with another $10,000 expected to be donated in the next four months. The local business owner says he tries to partner with Ottawa-based groups that share similar values and beliefs as he does, making Ecology Ottawa a great fit. “We are in a climate crisis right now around the world, and we are seeing a crazy fluctuation of extreme heat and extreme, extreme cold, as well as forest fires and droughts,” says Davies. “Ecology ensures

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”I think there is a lot of interest in the city about food security and what that looks like.” – Robb Barnes, executive director of Ecology Ottawa that people are educated when it comes to the environment, while growing their roster of volunteers, educating people on how to get involved with city hall and planting trees.” Between April and June of this year, Maker House raised more than $4,200 for the grassroots not-for-profit organization. That money will go towards purchasing 1,000 fruit- and nut-bearing trees, as well as the creation of a new urban food forests workshop for youth. Ecology Ottawa has given away almost a million trees to be planted around the city, including 10,000 already this year. The organization set a goal of providing 12,000 trees this year, a target it expects to reach sometime this fall. The group decided to launch the

new urban food forests program after discovering residents are becoming more interested in growing plants they can actually eat, says Robb Barnes, the executive director of Ecology Ottawa. He says the workshop will encourage people to do their part to make their community a little greener. “I think there is a lot of interest in the city about food security and what that looks like,” says Barnes. ”People want to learn more about how to do that in their own backyard, and they want to learn more about how to make this city resilient to climate impacts and foster food security.” The group has also partnered with the Parkdale Food Centre to identify what sorts of issues people want to address and make the new workshop come to fruition.

“They bring a level of expertise in terms of what the community needs are at the very grassroots, and what kind of food issues and food pressures they are seeing on the neighbourhood level,” Barnes explains. While details are still being worked out, the youth workshop is slated to get under way this fall. It will focus on planting trees that produce food, as well as demonstrating community gardening techniques. Barnes says Ecology Ottawa will be reaching out to local schools, community centres and universities looking for interested participants. Anyone who wants to find out more about the urban food forests workshop can contact one of the two community partners though www.EcologyOttawa.ca or www.ParkdaleFoodCentre.ca.

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HEALTHY ACTIVE LIVING Junior paddler making a splash on the big stage Rideau Canoe Club’s Maren Bradley part of Canadian team’s historic bronze-medal finish at junior world championships BY DAVID SALI

Germany. Their third-place result also helped Canada wind up second in the overall medal standings, ahead of Germany. “I knew we had a pretty powerful crew, so I was kind of going into that hoping for the best and knowing that we could really show other countries what we’re there for,” said the recent graduate of Nepean High School, who is heading to Dalhousie University in

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Bradley was part of Canada’s women’s K4 (four-person kayaking) crew that captured the country’s first-ever junior world championship medal in the 500-metre distance at the event in Pitesti, Romania, in early August. Bradley and her teammates took home the bronze, finishing behind perennial paddling powerhouses Hungary and

Halifax to study commerce this fall. “We worked really hard for it, and I think we showed what we could do.” Bradley, 17, didn’t have much time to rest following her triumph in Romania. Just a couple of weeks later, she was in Regina to take part in the Canadian sprint canoe kayak championships in late August. Bradley made the most of her trip out west, placing third in the under-18 women’s individual 1,000-metre canoe final on windy Wascana Lake – despite not having much practice time at that distance under her belt. “It was my first thousand-metre race of the year, actually,” she said with a laugh during a phone interview from Regina the day after the Aug. 27 race. “I hadn’t been training it when I was at worlds, but it went pretty well. I’m really happy with it.” Continued on next page

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Continued from previous page The result probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise. Bradley, who fell in love with the sport after joining the Rideau Canoe Club’s summer camp for kids at age six, says she normally favours racing the 1,000 over the 500. “It’s easier to make a pace and be consistent,” she explains. “It’s fun.” Bradley won’t have much down time after the nationals, either. Almost immediately after the competition ends, she’ll fly to Halifax to start preparing for her first year at Dalhousie. She’ll also begin training at Dartmouth’s Mic Mac Amateur Aquatic Club under the tutelage of head coach Chris Chaisson, who also oversaw the women’s team at the world juniors. Still, she says she’ll never forget where she came from. Bradley is quick to credit her coaches at the Rideau club, Andres Carranco and Reid Farquharson, as well as her teammates for helping mould her into the powerful paddler she’s become.

“The Rideau Canoe Club has an amazing team,” she said. “My coaches and especially my training partners, we’re all super close, and I don’t think I would have been able to get anywhere without them.” Fresh off her success at the worlds and nationals, Bradley has even loftier longterm ambitions to shoot for. Her objective is to one day paddle for Canada at the Olympics, with her first real opportunity to wear the Maple Leaf on that stage likely being the 2024 Games in Paris. But she knows she’s got a lot of miles to put in before that can happen. Bradley, who stands 5-foot-9 and weighs a solid 155 pounds, says she needs to up her mental game and add more muscle to her frame. “I really need to work on staying focused before all my races and also in the off-season not getting too distracted. If you watch all the Hungarians and all the Germans, all the women are massive. I’m going to have to get quite a bit stronger to be at that level.”

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How to winterproof your home Local contractor Luc Faucher offers his tips to help you have the most energy-efficient home possible as the cold weather approaches September is here and the kids are set to go back to school, signalling that fall is at our doorstep. Which in turn means that winter is not far off the horizon. Although we might shudder at the mere thought of the return of cold weather, Mother Nature isn’t liable to take much pity on us. With winter coming up fast in our rear-view mirrors, local contractor Luc Faucher is here to offer a few words of advice to both homebuyers who are preparing to move into a new property and owners who are already ensconced in their dwellings and looking to ensure their homes are as comfortable and energy-efficient as possible in the chilly months ahead. Faucher, the owner of Maverick Home Builders, says buyers need to keep a few things in mind when having a new home constructed.

SEALING THE DEAL Once the framing is done, builders should ensure that the house is at least 95 per cent sealed under the finishing. For example,

“Clients should ask lots of questions and the builder has to be able to answer all the questions,” he says. “The house has to be leak-proof.”

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caulking should be used around windows and any openings where air can escape. Weather barriers made of substances such as rubberized asphalt compounds can be applied to provide weather-tight seals around doors and windows, skylights and other openings.

Flashing – material such as galvanized sheet metal that acts as a sealant between joints in the roof – needs to be installed properly, Faucher stresses. Otherwise, water can seep into the roof, eventually leading to mould and a host of other problems.

It might not be something most prospective homeowners would think about, but it can lead to an awful lot of headaches if not addressed: ground around the new home should sloped away from the foundation so runoff water doesn’t leak into the foundation and the basement. That can cause mould and other issues down the line, Faucher notes. “A lot of people do not realize if they don’t slope the ground away from the house’s foundation, they’re going to have problems,” he says. Once those things are taken care of and owners have moved into a house, they need to stay vigilant to make sure it’s operating as efficiently as possible, Faucher adds.

LET THE LIGHT SHINE IN Many homeowners keep blinds in many rooms closed all day even in winter, he notes. That’s not a good idea, Faucher says,

because windows need to be exposed to indoor warmth early in the day in order to prevent condensation from accumulating and creating a buildup of frost. “It’s not good because your windows have to breathe,” he explains, adding many homeowners mistakenly believe the frost buildup means the windows are of poor quality or not property sealed. In fact, he says, in many cases “it’s because the heat never made it to the window.”

By Deb Cherry, Broker with Engel & Völkers Ottawa Having lived in Vancouver and several large cities across Canada, with rapid transit I can tell you that Ottawa’s Confederation Line is going to change the way that we live and interpret our city, specifically when it comes to real estate values. Traditionally, it is expected of young adults to get a driver’s license, buy a car, and commute to and from the suburbs. This is no longer the case. With rail extending from Moodie Drive in the West, Trim Road in the East, and Limebank to the South, Ottawa’s LRT will bring 70% of residents within five kilometers of rail. Not only will this reduce the number of vehicles and traffic on our major roads and highways, but it will also make less central neighbourhoods more accessible, desirable, and valuable. Property values have already increased exponentially in the last two years in areas near future LRT stations. Many developers are clueing into this and starting to plan and build mixed-use

condominiums in areas such as Crystal Beach, Orleans, and Ottawa South. This is great news for those first-time homebuyers seeking affordable housing outside of downtown with a guaranteed return on investment over the next five to ten years. Not only is buying near the LRT a good investment, but you also don’t have to sacrifice the “urban lifestyle”. With options such as rapid transit, Vrtucar, RentABike, and OC Transpo, Ottawa has become increasingly accessible, making it one of Canada’s most desirable cities, and currently the hottest real estate market in the country. Contact us to learn more about how the LRT will affect property values in your neighbourhood.

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Finally, if you really want to find out where your home’s energy-efficiency weak spots are, Faucher suggests hiring a professional to scan the property with a thermal imaging camera that will detect where heat is escaping from your house. It’s not cheap but can be worth it in the long run, he says. “Maybe it’s not only the windows,” he notes. “Maybe it’s a corner of the house where the insulation was not installed properly.” The bottom line, Faucher says, is that being vigilant and paying attention to details can save you money this winter. “You just have to make sure every step is done properly,” he says. “You can’t cut any corners.”

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Getting your furnace inspected by a certified professional at least once every three years is important to ensure it’s running properly, Faucher advises. He recommends having it done even more often – about once every two years – if you can afford it. Changing the air filters regularly – he suggests doing it four times a year – will also help you get the most of your furnace, he adds. Homeowners also need to make sure they keep the furnace’s outside air vent clear of snow and other debris, which can also hinder the proper operation of the unit. “If there’s too much snow and it doesn’t

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