Arlington County Government, VA Newsmakers, 12 Dec 2012

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Arlington resident Richard Layman needed to make his pre WWII home more energy efficient but was able to off-set some of the costs with $10,000 in prize money as the Arlington winner in the Northern Virginia Home Energy Makeover Contest.

A

Arlington resident richard layman needed to make his pre-world war ii home more energy efficient and was able to offset some of the costs with ten thousand dollars in prize money. As the arlington winner in the northern virginia home energy makeover contest.

B

I I was pretty incredulous and you know I um you know asked a few times. Are you sure you're not kidding me? You know this. Is this doesn't happen? You know this is what happens to other people, so you know I was very excited when it. Finally, you know dawned on me that yeah this is. This is really true. This is gonna happen, so I was very excited.

C

um The reason we did this contest is because it's fun it's exciting. It brings a lot of community players together and gives us an opportunity to talk to folks about energy efficiency. Many people are aware of makeover contests. They've seen things like that on television before, but our focus on energy allows us to talk about home performance with energy star and to really again engage the community around energy efficiency in their home. I.

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Think one of the biggest things that we go through is we want to make sure that education gets out there, and this is a big vehicle for education to be able to tell people that we can keep them healthy, safe, make their homes more durable and comfortable, and I think that's a hard message to get out there, because it's it's almost like people, don't believe it at first and- and I think it's a hard message- and I think this is a great way to do it and I think- and I'm really excited to see the outcome.

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The goal is to improve 320 homes in arlington county and the money that they received. The stimulus money that they received was earmarked just for arlington county. They are doing work across northern virginia, but the money, the rebate money has been just applied to arlington county.

C

So the laymans were chosen as our grand prize winners and what they will receive is a home energy makeover worth up to ten thousand dollars, so we're giving them improvements and the products that are associated with those improvements in this particular house. We chose it because it's actually kind of typical of the older building stock in the arlington community. It's a 1940s home, there's a lot of things that we can do in this house, related to air sealing and some insulation and other work that will improve the home. A bunch.

B

During the summer and the winter we have a big temperature differential that happens between the basement and the upstairs. We have three stories in the house and it it might be. You know eight or 10 degrees difference when you go from one level down to the next to the next, and you can just feel the heat coming down from the attic in the summer, and so, if we could, you know change that, so that the house is more comfortable on all levels and then, if we could, you know make that better.

B

That would that would be. uh You know a real improvement.

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If arlington homeowners want to apply, they should go to www.ilikeleap.com and do a home energy assessment and get themselves in line to be considered for the program.

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That's it for this edition. You can find more news makers on our website at arlingtonva.tv.