Home Insulation: Green Armor Against High Energy Costs
Insulating and sealing are affordable, effective projects for your green home. Here are our top tips for ensuring year-round energy efficiency.
How to Insulate and Seal Drafts in Your House
Tips to help cut heating costs in cold weather and improve home comfort. Adding insulation, caulk and other weather-proofing …
How to Install Extra Attic Insulation
Adding insulation to your home is the single most important thing you can do in your home to cut down on energy costs and reduce …
Improve Attic Insulation Efficiency
A dry, well ventilated attic will make sure that insulation is doing its job. To improve your attic insulation and efficiency, …
Attic Exhaust Fans
Learn when attic exhaust fans should be used in your attic.
Basement Insulation Will Warm You Up
If you’re looking to keep your home warm — a good thing to do is to add insulation. A great place to add it is your …
Spray Foam Insulation Concerns Addressed: Learn the features benefits of using spray foam insulation in your home.
We are in upstate New York where winters can be well below freezing, with lots of snow and ice and very wet and slushy springs. …
Attic Insulation – How Much Do You Need?
I am looking to add insulation to my attic. Owenscorning.com recommends R-49, however the closest I can find is R-38 and …
Mold in Attic Can Cause Roof Rot: Proper Ventilation is Key to Prevention
While getting a home inspection done for a potential purchase, the inspector pointed out what appeared to be a light blue-gray …
Heating a Cold Room: Reduced Insulation and New Skylight Affect Warmth of Remodel
I need some suggestions for heating a cold room in my house. My recent kitchen remodel included raising the ceiling …
Adding New Attic Insulation and Floors
We want to add wood flooring up in our attic. Before doing so, we were going to replace the existing installation. …
Insulating A Shed: Adding insulation to the ceiling of a heated shed
How do you insulate a shed that has a barn style roof with no overhangs?
Installing Carpet Over Concrete: Include best-quality padding for insulation and vapor barrier
Great show! The carpet in my family room is a few years old now and it needs replacement. The problem here is that this carpet …
Do Roof Shingles Insulate?
I have a question about roof replacement and whether or not roof shingles insulate. My composition shingle roof was installed in …
How to Insulate Your Crawl Space and Save Money
Knowing how to insulate your crawlspace is a great way to cut energy bills and increase comfort. If your crawlspace is not …
Crawlspace Insulation Tips
Proper crawlspace insulation can improve your home's comfort and energy efficiency. Check out the tips on Proper crawlspace …
Home Insulation, Heating and Cooling Efficiency Tips
Tips to ensure efficiency of Dehumidifier, Home heating and cooling system by following a few simple steps, Have a contractor …
Sealing Drafts: Energy Saving Tips
Find out how to properly seal drafts in walls, windows, doors and outlets and switches to increase home comfort year-round, …
How to Winterize Your Home
Learn small fall fix-ups to avert big winter woes. Fall is a great time to winterize your home by performing a few home …
DIY Insulation Tips for Winter Comfort and Energy Savings
Find out how to make your home energy efficient and reduce heating costs with home insulation.
Save Energy With Blown Or Batt Insulation
When you hear about insulation, you may hear the term R values - this is just a fancy way to measure the thermal resistance of …
Insulate Your Attic Stairs
Imagine leaving a window open all winter long - the heat loss, the cold drafts, the wasted energy! If your home has a folding …
Where to Insulate
My contractor recently installed insulation directly on the inside of my roof. Does this make good sense? Should have he …
Drafty Attics Are Good
We have a Cape Cod styled home with attic vents on each end of the attic, along with a ridge vent. The attic is …
Seal Spaces
Spring provides the perfect weather for a few inexpensive outdoor fix ups. Seal cracks in foundations with a flexible urethane …