I am always looking for ways to trim household expenses! I cut coupons, shop sales, turn the lights off when I leave the room as well as keep our showers as short as possible.
I’ve realized that heating as well as cooling accounts for approximately 50% of our household energy USAge… Because of this, I’ve focused on tightening up the cabin to prevent the heated as well as 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 seriously fancy. I carefully caulked as well as insulated around them. I also bought new exterior doors as well as weatherstripped them. I’ve added ceiling fans to help push the heat toward the floor in the Wintertide as well as encourage it up as well as out during the summer. I have thermal lined curtains that I close to block out the daylight on sizzling Summer afternoons as well as open to let the daylight heat up the rooms on frigid Wintertide afternoons, and just recently, I realized that the insulation in the attic needed to be substituted. It was evidently compressed as well as disfigured by moisture as well as rodent infestation, then the attic is designed to serve as a barrier between the residing space as well as the outdoor conditions, then when properly insulated, the attic can significantly improve comfort as well as reduce the workload of the heating as well as cooling system, then however, with insufficient insulation, the attic tends to get seriously sizzling in the Summer as well as horribly frigid in the winter. Warm air tends to travel to cooler stadiums. That means the heat from the attic moves into the air conditioned residing section during warmer weather. In the winter, the heat from the oil furnace migrates up into the cooler attic, then replacing the insulation in the attic was a cost-effective plan however also an terrible task. I spent an entire day crawling around the overheated attic, dealing with wet, dirty insulation as well as then installing new insulation.