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Energy Savings

4 Surprising Benefits of Insulating Your House

Feeling a bit chilly even when the heat’s on full blast? Or maybe your living room always feels a few degrees off, no matter what you do.

Energy Savings

How To Prevent Heat Loss in Your Home

Everyone loves a warm, cozy home during the winter months, but a warm house doesn’t automatically happen. There’s a lot more to it than that, and one of the most significant issues that homeowners face is heat loss in their homes.

Energy Savings

4 Questions to Determine the Correct Insulation R-Value for Your Needs

The term insulation covers a wide range of materials, from rigid foam and foam-in-place to loose-fill and rolls and batts. While having a lot of options is often a good thing, it can make choosing the right insulation an intimidating prospect for homeowners who are just starting to get into DIY home improvement projects.

Doors and Windows

How to Repair and Deal with Broken Doors and Windows in the Winter

As every home DIYer knows, the colder it gets, the harder it is to perform renovations work, especially outside. However, there are sometimes unavoidable times when you have to brave the cold to do necessary repairs, such as when a door or window breaks.

Energy Savings

Signs Your Home Is Under-Insulated

Insulating your home has several benefits aside from reducing uncomfortable drafts. By insulating your home, you prevent temperature-controlled air from escaping your home, therefore reducing your carbon footprint and significantly decreasing your energy bills .

Seasonal Maintenance

4 Ways to Improve Home Insulation and Save Energy

The frigid bite of the winter season is at your doorstep. During this season, energy rates can increase as everyone turns up the heater. This leaves you with a conundrum of whether to leave the thermostat alone and bundle up to save money, or keep the house warm and budget more for utilities.

Green Home

DIY Green Home? 4 Home Energy Efficiency Optimizations You Should Leave to the Pros

So you are looking to upgrade and optimize your home. You are especially looking to make it more energy-efficient.

Energy Savings

8 Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Insulate Your Doors and Windows

Proper insulation makes your home warm and comfortable to live in and reduces your energy costs significantly. But best of all, it increases your home’s durability and efficiency, helping you to save money in the long run.

Energy Savings

Warm It Up: 4 Tips to Better Insulate Your Home

Properly insulating your home doesn’t need to be a time-consuming or expensive project. Even some minor additions and upgrades could dramatically cut your costs and potentially even increase the value of your property.

Home Utility

Comparing How 4 Kinds of Insulation Impact Your Energy Bill

Make your home more eco-friendly by choosing the right type of insulation. You have several different options available to you.

Home Improvements

Quick Checklist: The Most Important Renovations You’ll Never See

Many people concentrate on renovations that improve the look of their home, such as new flooring, new siding and kitchen and bath upgrades. But there are many valuable renovations you can make to the guts of your home that never see the light of day.

Energy Savings

How to Make Your Home Renovation Project More Energy Efficient

When you make changes to your property, you want the end result to be as energy-efficient as possible.

Home Structure

5 Minor Home Improvement Projects to Make Before Spring

Cold weather often deters homeowners from doing improvement projects, but there is much that can be accomplished before spring arrives.

Home Structure

5 Indoor Upgrades to Do to Your Home This Winter

Just because the cold weather comes in doesn’t mean an end to your chances of doing some home improvement work. Oftentimes it can be the best times to get some specific projects taken care of.

Seasonal Maintenance

Get Ready For The Cold: What You Should Do Around The Home During Fall

As the leaves outside your window begin to change colors, you know colder weather cannot be far behind. This is the best time to get your home ready for the coming onslaught.

Energy Savings

Summer Time Joy: 5 Tips for Keeping the Cold in and the Heat Out

Is your home prone to over heating during the summer? Does it feel cooler outside than it does inside your home during the summer. This is always a bad sign.

Home Interior

Renovation Essentials: What You Need to Know

You’re shopping for a home, a fixer upper, looking for a bargain that you can transform from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. The process is a long one, requiring much patience and knowledge about the project at hand.

Seasonal Maintenance

Reminder: Midwinter Home Maintenance Checkup

Tweet But winter does not mean a complete rest from your home maintenance work as several problems could be looming just out of sight. Let’s take a look at a

Home Structure

Deep Freeze: How to Keep Pipes Flowing

Tweet One of the scourges of the season are frozen pipes, a problem that can be avoided with careful planning. Even so, if your pipes do freeze you can thaw

Heating and Cooling

Get a Handle on Your Home Heating Costs

Tweet Fortunately, there are steps you can take to reduce your heating costs immediately. There are also various low- and high-cost solutions, what you may want to explore as your