It won’t be long before winter is here, which means colder days and an increase in heating costs to keep your home warm. While it can be difficult to predict how mild or severe it will be this winter, there are several things you can to help prepare your home. Doing these things now, will help save on heating costs later and could even reduce your energy bills this winter!
Fibreglass insulation has been around since 1938 and has remained the preferred choice for homeowners when adding insulation to their homes. Fibreglass insulation helps makes home more energy efficient by creating a barrier between the interior and exterior of the home to help maintain indoor air temperatures year round. It is even a good choice of insulation for people looking for green solutions for their homes.
If you are considering putting your single-family detached or semi-detached home up for sale, there are several different things you can do to help boost its value and potentially sell it for more. Many of these things are not that expensive. In some cases, not only will you recover your entire investment costs, but also could recover between 2 to 5 times what you initially paid!
The R-value of insulation is its ability to resist the transfer of heat through the insulation. Heat transfer is the loss of warm air from inside the home to the exterior. It also implies the transfer of heat during the warm summer months from outside into the home. So, insulation with high R-values resist heat transfer much better than insulation with low R-value.
Did you know that one of the reasons your hydro and energy bills can become exceptionally high and unpredictable in the winter is because your attic is not insulated correctly? The attic is part of your roofing system and requires proper insulation and venting for it to work correctly. However, most homes in the GTA do not have sufficient insulation.
Some homeowners may not worry much about a small leak in their roof that only happens when it rains or the snow melts off of their roof at the end of winter. However, if left unchecked and unrepaired, a small roof leak can quickly turn into a major headache and costly hassle for the homeowner.
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