Seal Your Home website
A good resource I’ve come across is called Seal Your Home. This site was created by DAP to help educate consumers about weatherizing- improving the energy efficiency of a building’s envelope. Reducing the flow of cold air into your home is an important part of weatherization and this site helps you identify air leaks and also how to fix them.
Seal Your Home is a simple website, packed with information. This post will walk you through the site and what you can learn.
Seal Your Home Review
Home
The Home Page provides a brief introduction to the site and it’s focus on energy savings.
House Tour
The “seal it” House Tour identifies some of the major problem areas in a home- areas like exterior venting and baseboard molding. By clicking on a target area, you get detailed instructions for the best way to seal the air leak (with a little DAP product plug too).
Test your House
Test Your House is a home energy efficiency calculator. Punch in some basic information and see how you compare to the average american home. Unfortunately, it wasn’t working properly so I’m not sure how my home stacks up, but here’s the info you need to provide:
- Zip code, number of occupants, and total square footage
- 12 months of kilowatt hours used
- 12 months of heating fuel used
Make A Difference
This section provides an interface to contact your state and federal government officials. If you’re looking for an easy way to petition your senator regarding energy concerns, this is it.
In the News
In the News is a page full of links to news sites. The articles range from energy audits to stimulus bill incentives.
Tax Credit and FAQ
The last section is devoted to energy efficient tax credits. This page has a tax credit summary and a couple links to the Energy Star website with more details about the federal tax credits.
What do you think? Do you know of any good home energy efficiency sites like this?
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November 19th, 2009 2:31 pm
Perfect timing on this one Ethan, it IS that time of year and my electric bill came in the mail this morning, noticed and increase already due to using heat!
April 7th, 2010 9:38 pm
I had a door install in the basement and around the door frame is a cement wall and there are small after the door was put up what is the best thing to use to seal the cracks up.