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We finally finished the master bedroom today. This project started in March 16 and took us 8 days to get the room prepped for repainting. But this week I just put back all the trim. Now we just have to put the stuff back in the room. After painting it took a while for the fumes to finally dissipate.
We insulated the master bedroom exterior wall full of rigid insulation in anticipation for scheduling a second post-audit and getting additional rebates from the Federal and Provincial governments via the Eco Energy audit programs.

But I just found out that the gov't has pulled the plug on the programs. No more applications are being accepted as of March 31-2010.

If you have already booked a pre-retrofit audit before that date. You are ok. You will then just need to get your retrofit work by March of 2011. And the sooner the better because the gov't can pull the plug at any time for whatever reason.

If you have already done your pre-retrofit audit and a post audit. You will not be allowed to re-enter the program. See link to NRCan site for notice.

Which means, it SUCKS to be us. Cause that's what we were hoping to do with this work, plus all the other work we had planned. This week we got back our Federal rebate for the work we had already done and we're expecting the Provincial one to come in soon for the same amount.

We were going to do all this work anyways. We had calculated that the rebates would cover the entire cost of the materials, which would have been a big bonus. We'll still eventually get the money back, the insulation of the walls would have paid us back in reduced energy bills over the years. The NRCan Eco program just meant we would have recovered our initial costs much sooner.

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The room aside from the paint, looks like the same old room. I have only the one bedroom left to do. And then the stairwells. That's all for insulation projects in our home.
Now our rooms will be much warmer in the winter. Even though we got new windows and a new furnace. It's still chilly in our house. Our walls have a 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch air gap for insulation. In the winter the walls are freezing. And if the temp and humidity is high, condensation forms and paint cracks and the walls sweat. With the insulation, we won't have this problem anymore. After this year. That will be it for a while.