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Hoop houses are cheap to set up initially. But you will find that the plastic will fail when you least expect it to: on very cold days, during a hail storm or high winds. The old saying holds true: you get what you pay for. With a hoop house you are saving up front but multiplying your expenses down the line and risking crop failure at the worst possible time. Industry statistics say you'll have to replace the plastic every 1 to 4 years. Add that cost to the lost profit due to crop damage and you aren't saving anything.

Twinwall polycarb costs more upfront but will last far longer, will not be damaged by rain, wind or hail. I wouldn't sell a greenhouse that I couldn't stand behind. Twinwall is definitely worth it.

Hi Luane. I am sending this to a few friends.
Let's Make A Deal
The company in question is Vemma and their home business branch Vemmabuilders.com
Two months ago I joined this MLM and had one lady sign up under me. She has since enrolled 1400 people which is my second generation down line. They all pay $20 a month membership fee and purchase products that the company offers.
Here's the catch. I have to personally enroll a few other people (three -total I think) to qualify for a share of the company revenues from the purchases made by these 1400 people.
And here's the deal. If you join my team by signing up with me as your sponsor before the end of this week, Jan 10 I will share equally with you all the income I receive from this company from the purchases made by the 1400 people plus. If 6 of you sign up, I will send you 1/7 of the commissions that I receive from the company, or if 9 people enroll with me as their sponsor, you will receive 1/10 of what I receive.
My personal payment to you every month is over and above anything that you may earn from your direct relationship with the company. Who knows, you may like the product or you may choose this company to help you with a home based business. I am retired, and I would like to help a few people get started in internet/social marketing which is where all commerce is headed.
Check it out please, check my numbers and if you are interested chris.tidman@gmail.com  If you need more info about me go onlinenap.ning.com

And Happy New Year

Hi Luane.
Been busy creating a DIY solar collector to stick on the wall of a house to heat it. It's like a thin scaffolding that is wrapped in clear vinyl. Small blower moves air in and draws off heated air at top when the sun warms the air in the big plastic bag.
Also acts as an extra skin over wall of home.
Things are looking up Luane.

Wow. That's a great article. Thanks.

Excellent note, Lu. We all have adversity, but the one true fact is that we only actually lose when we give up. We need to let failure try its best to take us down. "Oh no not I. I will survive." is what we must say. We've just got to.

Are the attic vents reopened during the hotter months to alow hot air release?

Most new homes are built with ridge vent systems. Sealing (closing off) these? Added information on solar systems.

JULY 22, 2009—10:32 PM. Luane Todd: Are the attic vents reopened during the hotter months to allow hot air release? Most new homes are built with ridge vent systems. Sealing (closing off) these vents. (The example of how my system functions answers your question)
Hi Tom, The climate where you live will determine how you handle the ridge venting. In a “combination” passive heat/cooling system there are specific aspects of “AIR MOVEMENT” that actually have to occur and enable the system to operate as a passive system. Passive means to react by the natural laws of air movement. If you have watched the smoke rise from a chimney and you lived inside said home you remember the action you had to do to allow the fire to work? The fire went out if you closed the draft and no smoke came out of the stovepipe.
The same principle applies to “Passive Solar heating and cooling”. Your passive solar heating system is operating and you are drawing air into your to be heated by the captive heat generated by the “Energy” captured from solar radiation.
IF you need this heat you simply “SUCK” this heated air into the building living area. The sucking of the attic air from the attic into your living space creates a “POSITIVE” drop in attic pressure which continues pulling outside air into the attic space and continues to pull heat from the inside chamber/roof inside surface and blowing it inside your living area.
Now we address how you cool your passively heated home. When you have warm/heated air in your attic and you now need to cool your inside living area, specific conditions must be present. In the Vancouver project I installed a temperature sensor at the outside of the building near the intake vent to tell the system that there was outside air suitable to “cool” the interior temperature to a pre-established threshold.
This sensor was located 10 inches below the air intake into the attic passive solar heating system. When the pre-established “coolness” was achieved, the system opens the 24” vent in the upper most position on the roof and in the middle of the roof and by this action the attic HOT air rises out through this opening and by that action “SUCKS” in the cool outside air into the attic space. Another sensor in the attic space reacts, when it meets the conditions determined, and “TURNS ON” the suction fan and “SUCKS” the cool air into your home.
You can also have a second sensor in your system which will open the roof vent and simply let fresh air flow in the lower vent and flow out through the top opening. This keeps your attic cool when you don’t require either heat or cooling and keeps any potential heat buildup that could force heat into your living space.
My system is totally passive, no compressors or other means to either heat or cool the air before entering the attic space. My first project in Burlington, Wash. in 1983 first produced “SOLAR HEAT” on Dec 23 rd at 3:00 in the afternoon. I went outside to check the temperature and it was “23” degrees and when I looked at my roof, it was snowing and three inches of snow had collected on my black composition roof!
On this day the attic was producing “65” degree heat and blowing it into my storage building.
Final note: MY solar heating system can produce “HOT” air approaching 100 degrees.
Now you must decide if you want to heat and cool your home, shop or business using electric baseboards, gas furnaces, oil furnaces or those cheap to operate “HEAT PUMPS" that cost thousands to install and last a few years with their added electrical bills?

I have developed land since 1963. A project I developed in 1992 to 1998 created $750,000 in non-taxable income. I simply stumbled on the process when looking at a 5-acre piece of property in Bellingham, Washington area where I had moved to and built a home for my family. The implication of how I undertook required the approval of my CPA of 30 years and confirmation of a second CPA to prepare for the process.
The process is smooth and requires simply seeing through a different set of ideas and the opportunity was available by my realizing what was missing to allow these 15 platted waterfront-building lots to be used. IF interested I can pass on the information and the legal documents created which through an ability to see thing differently, opportunities arise that simply did not exist prior to your seeing it differently.

Mighty interesting, Lu. Thanks. There will come a time when we can no longer sit and watch things get worse. We will know when that time has arrived.

yep.