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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 11): Your Roof: Heat Shield to Maximum!

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the winter months and the hot summer. Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors. These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and air. By having a tight seal, the less energy yo [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 10): The Thing in the Attic

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer. Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors. These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and air. By having a tight seal, the less [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 9): Just Venting… Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer. Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors. These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and air. By having a tight seal, the less [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 8): Getting into Hot Water

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer. With hot water, the trick to saving money is knowing how the system works and having enough insulation.You might believe that work I describe below is beyond your ability. Never fear, these are easy tasks for any average person. Make sure you have a good set of tools. Plus, you might want to look at the Federal Energy Efficiency [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 7): Throwing in the Towel: The Laundry Center

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer. The big energy users in the laundry area are the washer and the dryer. The trick to saving money is to know how well your machines perform so you can save water while washing them and dry them efficiently without wasting energy.The typical washer uses about 0.256 kWh per load. The main cost is obviously the amount of hot water t [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 6): Presenting The Doors!

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer. Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors. These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and air. By having a tight seal, the less [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 5): Energy Efficient Window Treatments: “It’s Curtains for You!”

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer. Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors. These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and air. By having a tight seal, the less [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 4): Wind, Weather, and Storm: Door and Window Tips

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer. Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors. These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and air. By having a tight seal, the less [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 3): Windows

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months and the hot summer.  Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors.  These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and air.By having a tight seal, t [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 2): Mudsill and Rim Joists

There are a few things you can do around your home to save money during the remaining winter months.  These will also save you money during the hot summer. Basically, you need to air seal your home's "thermal envelope"; the sum total of the home's insulation systems including walls, ceilings, foundation, floors, windows, and doors. These work more effectively with good, tight fits that seal-out the weather, moisture, and a [...]

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Do It Yourself Energy Efficiency Projects: Your Home’s Thermal Envelope (Part 1)

That first week in January was bitterly cold, wasn't it?  And lots of people all across the state had their heating systems cranked to full throttle just trying to keep their homes warm and their pipes from freezing.Of course, your Texas Electricity bill will be higher than normal.  And there's still a whole lot of winter left to go.But don't worry.  There are a few things you can do around your home to save money du [...]

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