If you haven't insulated and weather-stripped your home, lost heat is
inflating your heating bill. However, if eliminating every possible heat leak
from your home is too much of an up-front expense, you can focus on a few of
the worst heat loss sources first. When finances allow, you can get to the
rest. Here are two of the largest sources of loss:
The Walls
If the walls separating the inside of your home from the outdoors isn't insulated,
you're losing a lot of heat from conduction. Heat conduction through a wall is
proportional to its area, which for a typical house, is considerable. The wall
separating your home's living space from the garage requires insulation as
well.
The Ceiling
Your ceiling has a lot of surface area as well as small holes that allow
heat to escape into the attic. This is compounded by the fact that warm air
rises to the ceiling and will find escape routes into the attic, where the heat
doesn't do you any good. You can easily lay out insulation on the attic floor
to reduce heat conduction. You will also have to seal up ceiling holes that
accommodate vents and pipes. The attic access hatch is another heat loss point
and should have weather-stripping along its edges.
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