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OVERVIEW

The outer walls, ceilings, windows, doors, and floors of a house each represent a potential site for heat and air transfer. Properly sealing and insulating a home is a cost-effective way to save up to 20% on annual heating and cooling costs. Educated homeowners or knowledgeable contractors can add insulation, seal leaks, and replace windows in a step-by-step retrofit.

Insulation

Insulation reduces heat loss in cold months and heat gain in warmer months, protects the home against air leaks, and controls moisture. Despite these essential functions, only 20% of homes built before 1980 are well insulated. Adding insulation to the attic, walls, and floors of your home is extremely effective in reducing energy bills.

Windows, Skylights & Doors

Windows, skylights and doors are essential for ventilation, daylighting and aesthetics. Together, they can comprise 10-20% of your home’s lost heat and air, but replacing these products is often expensive. Some upgrades, such as replacing single-pane windows with new, double-pane windows, can greatly reduce energy loss and provide long-term cost benefits. High-quality storm windows offer a low cost alternative that can reduce heat and air loss by 25-50%. Likewise, replacing or sealing and weatherizing around doors can provide significant benefits.

Sealing & Weatherization

Sealing a home involves caulking, sealing and weather-stripping all ducts, seams, cracks, and openings to the outside. In contrast to insulation, which targets the walls and sides of the home, sealing examines the tightness of air ducts, window and door moldings, outlets and lighting, and other somewhat minute yet impactful areas of the home. Like insulating, sealing may be performed in steps and is a high return, low cost solution to reducing energy bills.


SUMMARY:

Is your home just too cold in the wintertime - or perhaps there's just one room that you can't seem to warm up no matter how hard you try? Are there drafts by doors, air registers or windows? In the summer, does your home take forever to cool down no matter how much you blast the air conditioning - no doubt shooting your electricity bills through the roof? If you said yes to any of these questions, you're not alone. Most homeowners can save energy and money, and make their homes significantly more comfortable, through some very simple home upgrades. Very simply, the home envelope seals the interior of your home from the exterior elements. In short, it's the first line of defense for an energy efficient home. An improved home envelope can lower your energy bills, improve your home's air quality, make your home more comfortable and improve its environmental impact. Sound too good to be true? It's not - and home envelope upgrades are relatively easy. Our Energy101 Guide provides valuable details about techniques to seal and reinforce your home envelope. More minor envelope upgrades can be done by the homeowner with energy saving tips and products provided directly on our website. For more extensive home upgrades, our team of experienced service professionals will assess your home and ensure that you receive exceptional service. What are you waiting for, let's get started.