Remember one thing when trying to find ways to trim your energy bills this winter:

No home is absolutely immune to heat loss. You simply can not seal a house completely and expect your energy bills to hover at a constant amount. Every home will lose energy. It’s the rate it loses energy that you really need to be concerned about.

So, the real trick when it comes to saving money on your energy bills lies with trying to minimize the heat lost in your home. This can be heat lost through the baseboards, through the windows, through walls, doors, faulty insulation, old furnaces, ductwork, foundation…the list goes on and on

So, how do you minimize the heat lost? First things first, you have to find where you are losing the heat. Some of this is relatively easy. Have a bad or drafty window? Heat is probably being lost through there. Have a door that is older? Heat is lost through there too. Is there a room that is always cold? Heat is being lost probably through the walls. How about cold floors? Or does your furnace take a while to heat up or blow only lukewarm air to the touch? Heat problem.

Heat loss in your house is everywhere…and I mean everywhere. The real trick is to find out where, and minimize it. Remember that it isn’t practical or possible to eliminate heat loss. Adding insulation to your walls does not help. (Insulation slows heat loss or transfer, it does not eliminate it.) The only thing that does any good is to reduce heat loss.

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