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Armed with caulk guns, foam insulation, and compact fluorescent light bulbs, sixty volunteers weatherproofed and made energy upgrades to the Phillips Brooks House yesterday...
...Office for Sustainability staff members completed 20 separate projects as part of the weatherization, which was co-sponsored by OFS, the Environmental Action Committee, PBHA, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Green Team. The ECMs—energy conservation measures—included sealing gaps in windows with caulk to prevent heat from escaping during the winter, installing water-saving dual-flush handles on toilets, and setting up recycling and electricity-saving programs in the offices...
Engineers are frantically working to strengthen the dam, installing a "grout curtain," or, as Triplett explains, basically applying huge amounts of caulk, to firm up where the edges of the dam anchor into gravel. Because the engineers can't be sure that the patched dam will hold - and there is even a real possibility that the repair work could just ensure that the gravel collapses in one chunk, as opposed to failing in pockets - should the anticipated rains arrive, the only relatively safe option will be to deliberately release the dam. "What is crystal clear is that there will...
...federal buildings? Uh, it's not exactly cost-effective to retrofit a particle accelerator. What about more high-speed rail? Wonderful, if there were more projects ready to go. Why stop at weatherizing 2 million homes? Sorry, there are only so many guys who know how to use caulk guns...
...nothing, but if you took that thin crack and turned it into a circle, you'd have a hole as big as a nickel or dime," says Threthewey. You can feel for leaks in walls - especially at corners or where different materials meet - and fill the gaps with caulk...