Wednesday, February 20, 1985

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By HUGH NASH play. The space Dick Tomlin. go through the roof and conver- What Tomlin. figured was

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A couple of years ago a Brent- studied was that narrow. band of ting .from’ cumbersome storm missing was space so he custom
wood. Bay. businessman spent a dead air trapped between two windows to permanent and more built’ window units to’ capture WE SPECIALIZE iN
few months studying space. Now panes of glass, double glazed to efficient window units, ‘‘We.ask- more of it — five instead of just
he successfully markets a product provide a warmer buffer for local ed ourselves what is it that’s miss- two eighths of air. He has a pa-
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based on his research throughout homes. ing (from the usual double-glass. lent’ pending on his invention Hard Contacts Soft Contacts
Lower Vancouver Island...» Tomlin, manager of Heatline window units with. the quarter- Which he calls. the Plus +3

The space he studied wasn’t Centre Ltd., said when the price inch air space between them) and System. id Gas Permeable Lenses
out there where the astronauts of heating oil was threatening to then we set out to provide it.”’ “An extra three eighths may (Eye Examinations Arranged)

not seem like much but it really
is,’” Tomlin said.

The extra air‘ provides 20 per
cent more ‘insulation. than. the

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’ quarter-inch units and is. more - - Tralalgar Square.
_ than twice as efficient as-a-single
' pane window.
Tomlin said that if the two
panes are farther apart. air cur-
rents, started because the cold {
glass on the outside and the warm —— }
pane on the inside both cool and). f FAMILY RESTAURANT ~
heat the air, are set in motion, | Licenced Premises : 652-3622
Moving air is not as good insula- of 812 VERDIER — BRENTWOOD BAY
tion as dead air. :
| if the two. panes are ‘one- CHINESE FOOD
| quarter inch apart, when the air DINE IN — FEBRUARY SPECIAL —
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~ isn’t there any longer,’ he said. i feo. $6. 55 ONLY
-..Tomlin «has built’: up) a>
$500,000-a-year: business - selling ©
more space in spite of softening
economic conditions. He sees his
“success continuing: as more peo- «

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EEE ESE Ea are ; yet that we couldn’ t do,’ ’ Tomlin
_ Kay Gardner. is the new presi- -.~ cond vice- -president, ~ Phyllis. Sous will be officially dedicated said. ‘‘And thermal conversions: |
~~ dent ‘of; the Saanich: Peninsula’ McGrath’ secretary and Bileen Feb. 22. by Finance Minister do. add value toa. home when it.
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