I am consistently looking for ways to trim household expenses, but i split coupons, shop sales, turn the lights off when I leave the room in addition to keep my showers as short as possible.
I’ve realized that heating in addition to cooling accounts for approximately 50% of our household energy USge… Because of this, I’ve focused on tightening up the house to prevent the heated in addition to cooled air from leaking out.
I’ve gradually substituted every single window in the house. I installed thermal pane, Energy Star rated, low E windows that were extremely extravagant. I carefully caulked in addition to insulated around them. I also purchased current exterior doors in addition to weatherstripped them. I’ve added ceiling fans to help push the heat toward the floor in the Wintertide in addition to encourage it up in addition to out while I was in the summer. I have thermal lined curtains that I close to block out the sun on tepid Summer mornings in addition to open to let the sun heat up the rooms on cold Wintertide mornings, and just recently, I realized that the insulation in the attic needed to be substituted. It was evidently compressed in addition to disfigured by moisture in addition to rodent infestation, the attic is designed to serve as a barrier between the living space in addition to the outdoor conditions, but when respectfully insulated, the attic can significantly improve comfort in addition to reduce the workload of the heating in addition to cooling system, however, with insufficient insulation, the attic tends to get extremely tepid in the Summer in addition to horribly cold in the winter. Warm air tends to travel to cooler locales. That means the heat from the attic moves into the air conditioned living section while I was in warmer weather. In the winter, the heat from the gas furnace migrates up into the cooler attic, however replacing the insulation in the attic was a cost-effective system however also an awful job. I spent an entire day crawling around the warm attic, dealing with wet, dirty insulation in addition to then installing current insulation.