Edit: Project is done, no longer shipping anything, no longer participating in the internet at a meaningful level. End result: I've shipped a bunch of stuff around that hasn't been installed, worsening carbon emissions through shipment. Yay. Fuck me.
Trying this here...
I tend to go on about energy efficiency and such, and using less energy, and I've decided to put at least a bit of my money where my mouth is here.
In a lot of homes, the outside wall power boxes - outlet boxes, switch boxes, etc, tend to leak a non-trivial amount of air. They're a box, shoved into what ought to otherwise be a well insulated wall, and they're also an opening in a wall that would otherwise be decently sealed up. As such, depending on the house, they're worth a couple percent of your annual energy use to close up with some insulating foam.
However, most of the packs of that are either bigger than you need, or you need to buy a few different packs. I've purchased a couple large packs of the stuff, in a generic form that supports switches, round outlets, square outlets, the big paddle switches, and should work for pretty much anything without having to go nuts with scissors. I would like to distribute these around.
So: Here's my proposal:
You post in the thread, tell me how many of these you need for your house. The count is in "single boxes" - so a standard two outlet box is one, a double switch is two, etc. You may have to trim some for doubles, but they're easily trimmed with anything. Go around, count your outlet boxes and switches on the outside wall of your house (inside walls don't matter), let me know how many you need in the thread, and then PM me your shipping address.
I'll put your handle in the "Pending" category, ship them out on my dime. When you receive them, install them, and then post here that you're done, and I'll move your handle to the "Completed" category. If you've found them useful, you can send me a bit of coin (PayPal is fine, check or cash in the mail is fine, I'm flexible but don't do smartphone based apps, sorry, no longer running one of those toxic devices). I've got some chunk of money set up to burn through for this project (and am running it a few places), and anything I receive will go to buying more foam in bulk to send out to other people. When I run out of the pot of money, project is over, and I'll let people know.
The point of the "Pending" and "Completed" categories is just to encourage people to actually install them, not leave them on the counter for six months. It looks like a lot of the world may have a nasty, cold winter, and energy supplies are a bit scary low, so, hey, let's do what we can!
Unfortunately, I can only ship dirt cheap in the US, so this offer exists for the US only - unless someone wants to take on some European or other country shipping as well. I just don't have cheap overseas shipping available, and this is the sort of bulky stuff that ought to be dealt with locally.
Anyone interested?
Pending (shipped)
uniwelder
nereo
Weisass
ysette9
turketron
pressure9pa
Completed
Syonyk
HSBW
Glenstache
