Cut Your Heating Bills By Insulating Your Home
With the cost of fossil fuels and electricity going up every year, we are all looking for ways to cut our heating and utility bills. One of the best ways to cut heating and cooling costs is to add Insulation to under insulated homes. Though totally re insulating your home can be expensive, it will pay for itself in lower heat and cooling bills within a few years. If you can't afford to totally insulate your home now, at least figure out where the energy leaks are, prioritize which areas to address first and make a start.
The first step to making your home more energy efficient is to check around doors and windows, the attic and the basement for air leaks. Is your hot water heater and pipes leading to it insulated sufficiently? If you have a crawl space instead of a basement, is it insulated? Are attic doors, basement doors and any other doors and windows air tight or leaking air? Do you have old single pane windows? The first goal of energy efficiency is to make your home as air tight as possible. Once the home air leaks are eliminated you will benefit more from adding good insulation.
There are several types of insulating materials to consider for the different areas of your home. Foam in spray form and in rigid sheets works for some areas. Some areas benefit from spray on urethane foam, some need a radiant barrier and others do well with fiberglass bats or pour in or blown in insulating material. There are some new insulating materials made of recycled paper and other materials. Closed cell insulation is very strong and has a high R-Value so it is a benefit in many homes. It is a good idea to study all the types and put the right one in each area of your home.
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Companies like Dow and Owens Corning have good insulating products like Thermax and Comfort foam. When you are shopping for insulating products look at the R-Value which tells you how much they insulate per inch of material. All insulating options depend on trapped air to form a barrier between the cold and your interior space. Air has a low heat conductivity. When installing insulation take proper precautions for safety and follow directions as to amount to use and how to use it to best advantage.
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