Four air duct companies have paid a total of $55,000 as a settlement for violating Canada’s national “do not call” rules, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced Tuesday.The CRTC launched a number of investigations into companies after receiving complaints from Canadians. The commission’s investigation determined that nine companies in the Greater Toronto Area made unsolicited telemarketing calls in violation of the CRTC’s rules.The four companies that agreed to pay the penalty and stop making unsolicited calls are:Five other companies were issued a notice of violation and, according to the CRTC, have 30 days to respond. Collectively, they face penalties totalling $94,000.According to the CRTC, the companies used foreign call centres located in Pakistan, India and the United States.The CRTC thanked officials in Karachi, Pakistan and the RCMP for assisting in the “lengthy and labour-intensive” investigations.Earlier this month, the CRTC fined a Florida-based company $200,000 for breaking telemarketing rules. 

The company, Consolidated Travel Holdings Group Inc., agreed to stop making unsolicited telemarketing calls to Canadians, telling them they won a free cruise to the Bahamas.The national do not call list was launched in 2008 and has more than 12.8 million numbers registered.To remove the old insulation from your attic, we use a high-powered state of the art industrial vacuum system. Located on the outside of your home to keep dust to a minimum, we run our vacuum hoses up to the attic either through a window or right through your front door and into the attic access opening. All equipment brought through your home is in top condition and creates absolutley no mess. Our technicians, fully protected and with the proper respirator systems, carefully walk through your attic space and with our vacuum hoses remove all of the loose insulation from every corner and open space possible. Once all the loose insulation is removed, any remaining batts of insulation are removed by hand and bagged.

Once completed, everything is vacummed again right down to the drywall or your existing vapour barrier, leaving behind only empty space ready for you to carry out the next phase of your project. All of the insulation that we remove from your attic area is removed from the site completely, and we take great care not to leave any mess behind.ionic air purifier cancer People have many different reasons for removing the insulation from their attic. clean room airflow visualizationA bungalow may be under construction with the addition of a 2nd floor. air purifier covered by fsaAll loose insulation (good or bad) should be removed when the roof is taken off to prevent wind from distributing your insulation throughout your neighborhood.

Secondly, animals may have found a way into the area creating a nice home for themselves. With a family of racoons, squirrels, birds, etc., urine and feces can cause alot of damage to the ceiling, not to mention the harm it will cause to the people living in the house. We also remove attic insulation in cases where there has been a fire in the home. Since the insulation will absorb the odour from the smoke, several restoration companies use us exclusively to remove the insulation completely, allowing them to seal all of the exposed wood and insuring that no smoke odour will ever be present again. We have also removed the attic insulation in cases where the occupants have discovered that someone in the home is allergic to what is there. In these cases, they have us remove everything completely and then replace all of the insulation with a different material. Remember, call the professionals to do this work. We can save you money and alot of back-breaking time and effort.

Drapery and Blind Cleaning Oriental & Area Rug Cleaning Odour Control & Remediation Duct Cleaning in Barrie Upholstery and Leather Furniture Cleaning Carpet Cleaning - Two Rooms and One Hall Carpet Cleaning - Three Rooms, One Hall and 12 StairsMost of the Challenges posted by InnoCentive Seekers are of such a confidential nature that we are never permitted to reveal even the Seeker's identity, much less the actual solution.  However, we recently announced that the Boston Innovation Prize, which was seeking an energy-efficient air conditioning technology, had been awarded.  We are very fortunate in this instance, that the Seeker, the Barr Foundation, and the Solvers, John Barrie and Dr. Norbert Müller, have been willing to talk about the winning solution.  Below is an overview of the solution, provided by Solver John Barrie. Innocentive recently hosted the Boston Innovation Prize which was developed by The Barr Foundation, a private family foundation committed to enhancing the quality of life for citizens in the Boston area, and the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CES), an organization that seeks to reduce the carbon footprint of Cambridge, Mass., in the next five years.

The Boston Innovation Prize challenge was to "radically improve efficiencies in space cooling and dehumidification" and to "identify breakthrough technologies and/or designs which will provide cooling and dehumidification with dramatically higher energy efficiency than current room or window air conditioning units, while maintaining affordability."  Large companies have been working on this for decades.  To put this challenge in perspective, air conditioning technology has already doubled in efficiency since 1970. Our winning submission is an air conditioner that uses water vapor as the refrigerant. When water vapor is used this way it is referred to as R-718. Water vapor can be up to 30% more efficient than traditional refrigerants, but engineering the compressor is difficult and expensive.  In Europe where there are high energy costs, water vapor is used as a refrigerant in large projects. The economics of making a smaller scale R-718 compressor have, in the past, proven to be prohibitive.

Critical components are commonly made out of titanium. The key to our winning submission is an economical and very efficient compressor invented by Dr. Müller.   He invented a small and lightweight turbo compressor with an integral motor woven out of high-strength fibers. "It gives wonderful control. It's efficient and compact," says Muller who points out that up to 30 percent of the U.S. electricity is used for traditional cooling and air conditioning. Another plus for the woven turbo impeller is that it is very quiet. While winning the Boston Innovation Prize is wonderful, of equal importance is the added benefit of having such a high level review our technology.  "We looked at number of impressive designs, but this one really stood out because of its potential to consume significantly less energy and reduce peak demand compared to standard air conditioners," says Kendra Tupper, a member of the panel of judges and a senior consultant at the Rocky Mountain Institute.  The Rocky Mountain Institute is an internationally recognized think tank that works on issues of energy, efficiency and sustainability.