A visual example

I took a lot of pictures of all the buildings on camp with a thermal camera to see where the heat loss was. Black means cold (low heat loss) and white means warm (high heat loss). The first two are of Longs Peak, where you can see that the new window on left is black (not letting the inside heat escape) but the window on the right is white (the inside heat pouring out!). See what a big difference the new windows make?

 

                                         The picture above is the water treatment plant.
                                                      The picture below is the entry of Winter.

BayWeb

We installed BayWeb in Autumn, and ordered ones for Winter and Cedar. A big thanks to Pat and Patsy for donating the money to buy them! Each BayWeb will save camp $300 a year. It gives the administrator (me) control over the heat and monitors the temperature remotely via the internet. One of our biggest problems in the past during the cold season has been pipes freezing. Our old heating systems sometimes fail, and in the past if we didn't have a specific reason to go into a lodge we wouldn't notice it was cold until I saw our water storage tanks getting emptied faster than we could possibly be using the water. That used to be how we would discover the building had gotten so cold that the water - or even worse, sewage - pipes had frozen. With BayWeb installed in each lodge, I have it programmed to send me an email alert if the temperature goes above or below the parameters I have set for each one. I can change the alarm parameters for when people are in the lodges, which helps me catch a heater problem before it gets cold enough to disturb the guests. It also allows me to make sure the heaters don't get turned up ridiculously high. :) Learn more at BayWeb.com