SixLinks: Super-Insulate your home

Guide: Super-Insulate your home

About half of your home's energy usage comes from heating and cooling. While there is a lot you can do by changing your thermostat, but the better sealed your home is, the less energy it will take to heat and cool it. This is the last step after sealing cracks and upgrading windows and doors.

Steps:

1 Find where you home needs to be sealed

Get a home energy audit that will find the weakest areas of your home from an insulation standpoint are. Alternatively, if you know what your insulation is all throughout your house and already know where the lightest insulation is, this may be enough.

2 Seal Cracks

Complete the Caulking Gun guide to seal up any cracks you have in your house. Replacing your insulation won't do much if there are still cracks in other areas of the house.

3 Consider upgrading windows and doors

Complete the upgrading windows and doors guide. These are going to be a larger weak spot than any wall or floor likely would be.

4 Make other small changes

Add insulating blinds behind your windows. Adjust your thermostat. Make sure windows and doors are closed when the heating and cooling system is running.

5 Replace insulation

Upgrade the insulation in the weakest areas of the house. This often isn't a small task, but it's the last step in having a highly efficient building envelope.

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