if you have high electricity bills, have hot/cold spots in your home, have humidity control issues in your home, and you live in costal regions or in hot dry or hot humid climate regions. you might wna t to consider having your attic FOAMED....
meaning have a qualified company come in and spray Closed-Cell Foam insulation or Open-cell Foam insulation on the underside of your roof in the attic.
some of the benfits are:
-reduce Utility ( electricity use/cost for cooling/heating ) from 30% to 60%
the company I work for does tihs, and I have seen Customer's Electic bills drop from 480+ to 168.00/ 530 to 185.00 / 345 to 150 and so on........
-You reduce the wear & tear on your AC & Heating equipment ( system will now run about 1/4 to 1/3 the time of what it did before the FOAM was installed )
- You will control Humdidty in your home, the attic becomes part of the indoor conditioned envelope, so bugs/critters/rats/dirt etc... are not inflitrating in to your attic and even into your house.....dust problems become almost non-existent after the foam is put in. Your attic will be about the same temperature as your Living Room (indoors)....no more 200 degree attics.
- More even temperatures through out the entire home ( no more hot or cold spots )
an example I use regarding the cost of doing this FOAM installation is: say you had for example $5,000 or $10,000 and you went and deposited it in your savings acct or in a CD at the bank, and let it set there to mature or for a minimal of 10 years............what would you have earned/made off of it?
now take that same $5,000 or $10,000 and use it to have the Closed Cell Foam sprayed into your attic, you will see your Elect. Bill drop a good bit the very 1st month, and you will continue to see that savings for the rest of the time you are at this home, it will actually on most accts pay for itself in 5 years or less, with normally 5 years + til you leave the home or this life of pure profit after that( compare that to the 10 year waiting on your money u put in that CD, see which earns you more!!!)
when you spend to do the FOAM you will increase the equity of your home, by about 2 to 2 1/2 times of what you actually spent.......
depending on the SEER rating of your AC system and age of your home, your home might even qualify for an energy Efficient or even energy Star Label with the state you live in.
You will earn an energy tax credit write-off as well......
I have done Air Conditioning and Heating for nearly 19 years, I do custom duct & system designs, I am a certified Florida Energy Rater, and an Energy Analysis Consultant as well. where I do system performance testing/ Building performance testing and IAQ consulting ( Indoor Air Quality )
if you are interested in saving money, improving your home, having healthy cleaner indoor air, and a more relaxing indoor climate then check out the following links
http://www.buildingscience.comhttp://www.buildingamerica.comhttp://www.energystar.orgif you are interested and want more info, drop me an email or a PM.......
hope some of you might find this information of value
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