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Air Sealing: Attic Floor Insulation

Adding more insulation in your attic is often seen as one of the easiest ways to help save money and increase comfort in your home. While this is generally true, all too often the items need to be done are either simply overlooked &/or buried. That is one reason why we have held off on […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation September 6, 2011 By SLS

Air Sealing: Attic Baffles

Ever wonder why your outside walls feel so bloody hot during the summer, and oh so cold during the winter?  Well unless you have an older home with no insulation, in many cases it isn’t the actual wall, but a popular cost saving measure that is taken by many contractors – no attic baffles being […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation August 23, 2011 By SLS

Air Sealing: Sealing those Attic Penetrations

In our last few articles we have been focusing on the attic; namely creating an insulated attic hatch, and creating a means to store items & walk through the attic without disturbing blown in insulation. We have been spending a lot of time focusing on the attic as it is one of the most overlooked, […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation June 13, 2011 By SLS

Air Sealing: Attic Walkways & Storage

In the last article we did in our Air Sealing series, we were dealing with an issue many people with regular attics have – namely an un-insulated attic hatch. In this article we are going to deal with two other problems many homeowners have; and that is a way to store items, while allowing for […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation May 28, 2011 By SLS

Air Sealing: The Attic Hatch

In our ongoing series on Air Sealing, we are going to focus on the dreaded attic hatch, or as Allison Baile’s of Energy Vanguard so eloquently calls it, “A Mind-Blowing Hole in Your Building Envelope.”  Instead of crunching the numbers as he did, one just needs to walk by one in a hallway during the […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation May 20, 2011 By SLS

Air Sealing: The Hot-Roof Option

In our ongoing series on Air Sealing, we are going to pop into the attic for the next few articles. Not only is this a great time of year to work in your attic, but with all the recent snowstorms, those fun little red arrows on the diagram start to make sense – all that […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation, Hot Roof's Tagged With: Roofing January 21, 2011 By SLS

Insulating your Basement

Last year we started a series on Air Sealing that took a look at some of the basics like; how to find the leaks inside your house, what tools and basic materials required to air seal your house, and some tips & tricks on how to seal up the air leaks inside your house & […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation, Going Green? Tagged With: Guest Article's January 6, 2011 By SLS

Safety Sunday: Raccoons, Squirrels & Mice, oh my…

In our latest article, we were reviewing the EPA’s “Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades” and a section came up on pests. Seeing we are now nearing the wintertime, many animals are now searching for areas to hibernate, nest, stash their nuts, and even have their youngsters. Unfortunately, for us – rodents just […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation, Pesky Critters, Safety Third? Tagged With: Safety Sunday November 21, 2010 By SLS

Building Green Homes: Step 9 – Insulation

In this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can utilize those lessons on future builds. In the past articles, we have covered quite a few topics (listed at the end) and have left off […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation, Going Green? Tagged With: Looking Back September 28, 2010 By SLS

Air Sealing: Materials & Methods for sealing common leaks (Part 2)

In our prior articles on Air Sealing, we covered how to find the leaks inside your house, along with what tools and basic materials required to air seal your house. In this second part of this article, we will be dealing with tips & tricks on how to seal up the air leaks inside your […]

Filed Under: Air Sealing & Insulation February 19, 2010 By SLS

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