Archive for 'Money Savings'
The Best Improvements for any Age Home
What is best all depends on how the home was built and which improvements been made since then. Homes that are only a few years old usually need air sealing. But older homes — and in New England, homes can be over one hundred years old — often need improvements in their insulation. However, past [...]
The Best Energy Improvement if You Want to Sell Your Home in Five Years
Essentially, the answer to this question requires some knowledge about the home. Since every home is so different (in size, age and in the improvements that have been made on it since it was initially constructed, to name but three important factors), the particular home’s specific issues would need to be defined first. Be that [...]
What Can You Expect With an Energy Audit? Part 3
The third energy audit step is an optional data review with the homeowner. If the homeowner wants for the costs to be broken down quantitatively, then the information will be loaded into the computer and we will subsequently break it down, with approximate savings in dollars placed upon each of the upgrades, in order to [...]
What Can You Expect With an Energy Audit? Part 2
The second step is the actual audit. First, we review the homeowner’s goals and objectives. Next, we tour the home and put it into winter mode. We close all of the windows and turn on all exhaust fans. The goal of this step is to depressurize the combustion zone, thereby setting up a worst case [...]
The Improvements that can Save You the Most Money
The question of which improvements offer the most monetary savings is a somewhat complicated one. A lot depends on what is happening at the time. If the heating system needs to be replaced, then the first thing to do is to start with the cost of new heating systems and then figure out which one [...]
What is the Best Home Energy Improvement if I Want to Sell My Home Now?
If the home is being sold now it is a marketing decision. Real estate brokers tend to want to have as little information as possible so that people have as little a possible to object to. Some buyers are more comfortable with a home they have a full disclosure on and can see how they [...]
