Start future-proofing your cottage with a cheaper and more efficient heat pump

Start future-proofing your cottage with this greener (and cheaper!) way of heating and cooling

BY RAY FORD

ON GLORIOUS SUMMER days, the thought wafted through Blair Mahaffy’s mind like a cooling breeze off Manitoba’s West Hawk Lake: why not just hole up in the cottage forever? Sure, there’s always winter, but how bad can it be? When the pandemic came, Blair finally found out. And spoiler alert, it was a little like Doctor Zhivago. Despite a 1980s upgrade to the cottage Blair’s grandparents originally built in 1934, winter drafts barged in without knocking. Miniature glaciers grew across the windows. Even with the woodstove stoked and the baseboards heaters cranked to “rotisserie,” “you couldn’t leave clothes on the floor without the risk of them getting damp due to condensation,” Blair says. Fast-forward two years, and the cedar-sided structure has been transformed. There are new, well-sealed windows and patio doors, more insulation,…

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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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