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Home Energy Audits – Discover the Energy Hogs in Your Home

As part of my package to go Solar later this year, I received a home energy audit yesterday.  It will take some time to get the audit report; overall, I thought it was a good idea to have an audit...

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How Leaky is Your House? The Basics of Blower Door Testing

Leaky homes are hard to heat and hard to cool. The only way to know whether your home is leaky or tight is to measure its air leakage rate with a blower door. A blower door is a tool that...

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Teaching an Old House New Tricks – 1895 Home Retrofit

Before the audit: This two-story, 2,200–square-foot house on a raised foundation had a mixture of new and original features: wood siding; wood single- and double-paned windows; lathe and plaster walls...

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Free Energy Savings Calculator – Find areas to Save $ in Your Home

Residential energy costs in the U.S. are an estimated $246 Billion dollars per year. Here’s the breakdown:   Use the Home Energy Saver Calculator (Created with YOUR tax dollars) to find out where you...

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Buying a New Home? Finance energy-efficiency with an Energy Efficient Mortgage

An Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) is a mortgage that credits a home’s energy efficiency in the mortgage itself. EEMs give borrowers the opportunity to finance cost-effective, energy-saving measures...

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Is your money going out the windows?

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about windows and how they can save you $$ http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm/2011/1/27/Choosing-Windows-Looking-Through-the-Options/ Happy Savings,...

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Slash Your Utility Bill with a DIY Energy Audit

…..you can do some easy tests yourself and put your money toward addressing the problems. “There are many steps homeowners can take before calling a pro,” says Jeffrey Gordon, spokesperson for the New...

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What is the HERS Index and where do you score?

Developed by RESNET, the Home Energy Rating System Index (HERS) is the industry standard by which a home’s energy efficiency is measured and the nationally recognized system for inspecting and...

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Understanding Building Pressure and Air Boundary – Why you need to Seal your...

Understanding Building Pressure and Air Boundary http://ow.ly/darv1

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