Prepare Your Home for Colder Weather
As temperatures drop and colder days settle in, ensuring your home is prepared for winter is crucial. Now that the heating season has begun, keeping your home cozy while controlling energy costs is more important than ever. Here are some helpful tips to make your home energy-efficient and ready for the heating season. Tips to […]
The Unsung Hero of Summer: The Role of Insulation in Keeping Your Home Cool
When you think of insulation, your mind likely drifts to the chilly winter months, imagining how it keeps your home snug and warm. However, insulation is not just a wintertime hero. It plays a crucial role during the sweltering summer months as well. Insulation is a year-round ally, helping to regulate your home’s temperature and […]
4 tips to help you save energy in the summer
Summer may seem like the season of the outdoors, but it’s also the time of the year when we consume the most energy indoors. Think about it: fans and A/C units are constantly abuzz; late nights outside mean more outdoor lights on; and in general, we’re just doing more, which can equal higher energy bills […]
How can insulation lower my heating costs?
Insulation can help reduce heating costs by 50-70% depending on a few factors. While this is not always 100% true, savings can still start at about 30% and work upward from there. While 70% is not out of reach, it can be a heavy initial investment that many people may not necessarily want to front […]
When to consider new insulation
As the saying goes “out of sight, out of mind”, it is no exception when it comes to household insulation. Many individuals don’t give insulation a second thought after building or purchasing a home as it is something that hardly ever comes into eyesight. Despite insulation being one of the most regularly neglected, it is […]
Lack of attic insulation results in ice dams
With winter reaching freezing temperatures throughout New England, we’ll start to see ice, snow and the typical consistent winter weather before we know it. With the cold comes a whole range of new issues on homes, with one being ice dams. We see them all over the place, every single year and they can cause […]
Keeping your cool: How your home loses chilled air
When the temperature goes up outside in the warmer months, you turn on the air conditioning to keep the temperature as cool and comfortable as possible inside. But certain aspects of your home’s construction and design could be making it almost impossible to keep cool air in. These faults and flaws can result in your […]
Why is home insulation necessary in the summertime?
Anyone who lives in a region that gets really cold during the winter understands why home insulation is critical. Without it, homes can feel freezing cold, resulting in extremely high heating bills and other hardships, such as frozen pipes. What you may not understand, however, is why insulation still matters in the summer or in […]
Six reasons to replace your insulation
Home insulation is very important to the proper heating and cooling of a home. While insulation in a newer house is usually high-quality, insulation in an older home actually wears with age. If worn insulation is not replaced, it could mean a significant increase on the electricity bill, uncomfortable rooms or drafts, among many other […]
Convenient Ways To Go Green In Your House
Convenient Ways To Go Green In Your House Coming to grips that the way you live is doing more harm to the environment than good is a fairly easy thing to recognize. Changing your lifestyle to accommodate that is a little bit different. It’s easy to do what’s more convenient and usually that means not […]
