greener home: Watch Out Cold Weather Ahead
- 08/25/08 07:47 AM
Just in time for the COLD winter ahead, five low cost ideas to have a "greener" home and save some money on those heating bills. 1) Boost insulation. Insulation can settle and lose its fluffiness, reducing the ability to protect against energy loss. Your attic insulation needs to be at least one foot deep. So spend some dough to bulk up the attic insulation. 2) Have a blower test. Employ an energy auditor to find the areas in which air is escaping. If you plug cracks around windows, doors, pipes and light fixtures with caulk and weather stripping, you can tighten your (0 comments)