Steal this idea! Saving heat means less cost, less waste

After moving into our beautiful house overlooking a nature preserve, we realized the cost of heating and cooling our dream home would be phenomenal. It was like living in a greenhouse, with all the wild swings of temperature one finds in a desert. Our cold nights were very very cold and our hot days were sometimes too much for our A/C to handle.

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The worst part was trying to sleep. Some rooms in the house became overly hot at night, while others were comfortable. That's when I decided to take action.

If you go to the store and buy your own materials, you may create Window Blankets (see link, above) for as many or as few of your windows as you like. When our power recently went off during sub-zero temperatures, our indoor temperature went from 75 degrees F to not lower than 58 degrees F after more than twelve hours of the house being pummelled by gale-force winds.

Start with a bathroom window in your house. Cover up half of it (so you still have some natural daylight). One average sized window typically loses as much heat as an entire bedroom-sized wall. How much coal/oil/electricity/gas do you think you could save by covering basement and bathroom windows this way?

Think on these things!