| Show Standard-Examin- Home er Help at Home Add your own screened porch Go bugless during outdoor dinners with kits easy-to-bui- ld During summer I often switch off the air conditioner in the evening and eat on my patio but I end up being dinner for the insects I want to add a simple screened patio room kit What’s best? A Adding a screened patio room makes sense The savings on your electric bills from ' turning off your air conditioner (and on insect repellent) can go a long way toward paying for your screened patio room Another benefit of adding Q even a simple screened enclosure is that its roof will block the intense afternoon sun from shining in your windows Not only is the heat reduced but there will be lesc carpet and furniture fading You have miny options of screened patio rooms to choose from depending on your budget abilities and your interests Many attractive kits are more than 90 percent preassembled when they arrive at your home Over a weekend you and a few friends can have even a complex model completed Most screened patio rooms (some can also be assembled over a deck) fit into one of three design types: 1) summer-onl- y screened rooms 2) rooms and 3) ‘ three-season-u- se year-round-u- rooms The latter se design is fairly similar to a sunroom except that most have solid roofs with optional skylights For the budget-minde- d person a simple round or square screened patio room with a three-pl- y vinyl roof is an CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN UTAH HOMES seminar sponsored by the Utah State Archives and the Utah State Historical Society on the third Thursday of each month Topic is “Utah in the ’40s: An African American Perspective” presented at noon Thursday by the Rev France A Davis of Exterior views of several patio roomporch kits) attractive bug-fre- porch For use on cooler ( Interior views of evenings select one with snap-i- n clear acrylic several patio roomporch kits) Door Earth-friend- ly Los Angeles Times ost people base1 their purchasing decisions on time and money but some take it one step further - they put their money where their values are Those contemplating “going green” may find it difficult when g it comes to products It is hard to tell what products are truly Earth-friend- not just marketed as such - and which work because few green products are rated Reading the labels may provide some clues but die government does not require manufacturers to list all ingredients When lists of ingredients are provided they’ are pften filled with scientific terms thjt are indecipherable to the average consumer jGreen products are also more expensive - sometimes double the cost of conventional nationally advertised brands -because they include natural ingredients such as citrus soybeans and essential oils £The best you can do is buy a few test them at home and assess the results for yourself Finding green cleaning products may not be easy While thjsre are more of them on the market today than 10 years ago tfpy account for a minuscule part house-cleanin- ly agd IPBau panels Most of the models use white aluminum roof panels to block the heat and add structural laminated strength Three-inc- h is foam insulation (R-1common and usually adequate These also typically use windows and the single-pan-e aluminum frame does not have thermal breaks Year-roun- d patio rooms in all but the mildest climates use thermal break frames and thermal pane windows These are usually designed to be heated and cooled by the house HVAC system or its own mini-hepump For the most open screened area (about 75 percent) choose panels with quad-trac- k windows Although not inexpensive installing a folding window wall creates one of the most unique and efficient patio rooms The wall is actually a series of large insulated windowscreen panels 5) at of the market for all house cleaners Americans for example spent S46 billion on conventional laundry detergents in 1999 The industry’s best seller - Tide powder laundry detergent -accounted for $717 million of those sales Sales of the best-sellicomparable green product - Planet powder laundry detergent - was $645000 “Consumers are overwhelmed with things to worry about from violence in schools to unemployment” says Stephen Ashkin director of product ‘ development and environmental affairs for Vermont-base- d Seventh Generation an Earth-friendmanufacturer " People have so many issues to deal with in their lives it’s hard for them to say ‘OK now I’m going to deal with the environmental impact of the ly products I buy’” Cost and efficiency ! Consumer perception that green products take longer to work andor are less effective has been a major stumbling block “They don’t work as good” said Mark Newman-Kuz- el owner of the Los Angeles-base- d cleaning service Maid in the USA “We prefer the hard-cor- e stuff with the bleach They work better” Makers of green cleaners of course disagree “I’ll put my product up against Tide any day” said Jim Patio roomskits that open are attractive easy to build accordion-styl- e giving 92 percent open area They glide on ball bearings and have strong locks for security Write for - or instantly download from wwwdulleycom - Update Bulletin No 848 buyer’s guide of 1 1 patio roomscreen porch kit manufacturers showing roofwall designs windowdoor options features material construction details and illustrations Dear Readers: I am in the process of producing my weekly “Sensible Home” TV show for public television The theme of my home improvement show is “Save money in an Earth-friendmanner” and many of my column topics will be included in the segments In order to select segment topics that are of interest to ly readers all across the country I would appreciate your ideas for the main project topics These main segments will account for about 75 percent of the on-a- ir time Please write to me or visit wwwdulleycomtv with your project ideas Once my show gets going we plan to shoot segments in various cities across the country Perhaps I will pick your home for a project To order Utility Bills Updates send $3 and a envelope to stamped business-st- e James Dulley Standard-Examin6905 Royalgreen Drive Cincinnati OH 45244 or for instant download contact his Internet Web page at Rimer a chemist who 15 years which ago founded produces a variety of cleansers in Portland Ore was not But included in the February issue of Consumer Reports magazine which studied the effectiveness of various laundry detergents Because the magazine bases its tests bn percentage of market share and distribution only one green product was included in its tests - Ecover Ultra Natural It scored last in both price and performance out of the 39 detergents tested Tide’s Bleach Alternative Clean Rinse Formula scored first with an average per-loa-d cost of 26 cents whereas Ecover cost 38 cents Do It yourself “When I look at a package or container the first thing I do is look at the list of ingredients” said Heloise the syndicated newspaper columnist She suggests people examine labels when making their decisions On some green products she said “If you read the label it’s baking soda and water It’s vinegar with soap Or it’s citrus Why would I tell people to go buy your product when I can tell people how to make it at home themselves?” Heloise advocates using baking soda (sodium The Frugal Fare This event was held in Davis County last week What was it? 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