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There are plenty of cheap and common insulation materials available on the market today. Many of these have been around for quite some time. Each of these insulations have their own ups and downs. As a result, when deciding which insulation material you should use, you should be sure to be aware of which material […]
There is this almost fanatical belief amongst homeowners that their home must be energy efficient so they can reduce their energy bills. Unfortunately,this is the wrong approach to take. You improve your home, you increase energy efficiency so that you can live comfortably. Then the energy saving comes naturally afterwards. Think of it as comfortable […]
So the last experiment was disappointing, because it appeared that plastic did very little to prevent heat loss for your leaky hallway window. Things aren’t looking so good for the thin plastic as insulation. Luckily, we have another scenario. Plastic over part of a window has come “undone” giving us the perfect side by side […]
This question is important to many homeowners and renters because we believe that placing plastic over our windows will halep us save energy on cold winter days and nights. Some plastic makers claim that plastic adds at least 1R value to the window. I doubt this to be true. But using the information presented in […]
Q: I was walking around my neighborhood today and saw that my roof barely had any snow on it, but my neighbor’s houses did. I think we have the same roofs. Is this a problem? Probably. If you don’t have snow on your roof, this points to an energy leak through your attic to the […]
If you have particularly drafty windows or just want to improve the overall insulation of the window quickly and easily, install insulated plastic. This is recommended generally for windows with leaks you can’t seem to find or are having trouble repairing. Of course the optimal solution would be to replace the window eventually, but right […]