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Reduce Your Heating/Cooling Bills with Better Insulation What’s a homeowner to do? Heating and cooling account for 50% to 70% of the energy used in the average American home. If you want to substantially reduce energy costs, decreasing the amount of energy needed for heating and cooling your home is a good place to start. […]

Anyone who has had to crawl up into their attic on a hot summer day appreciates the value of a ventilated attic. Fans can help exhaust that hot air from your attic, and a solar attic fan can do it using clean energy from the sun. When the sun’s rays hit your roof tiles, they […]

Most people do not think about air sealing their attic before adding insulation. The EPA estimates that the typical American home has enough leaks, holes, and gaps to be equal to an open window every day of the year. You can’t see the hole because it’s the sum of many smaller openings. These gaps around […]

RADIANT BARRIERS Radiant barriers are installed in homes — usually in attics — primarily to reduce summer heat gain and reduce cooling costs. The barriers consist of a highly reflective material that reflects radiant heat rather than absorbing it. They don’t, however, reduce heat conduction like thermal insulation materials. How They Work Heat travels from […]

INSULATION Insulation in your home provides resistance to heat flow. The more heat flow resistance your insulation provides, the lower your heating and cooling costs. Properly insulating your home not only reduces heating and cooling costs but also improves comfort. How Insulation Works To understand how insulation works, it helps to understand heat flow, which […]