If your heating bill last winter was ridiculously high, most likely your home is not keeping in the heat as it is supposed to. If your house fails to keep the heat on the inside, your heater has to run longer to keep your home comfortably warm when it’s cold outside.
While there are many different areas in your home that may be releasing heat, the windows are the most likely culprit. Even if your windows aren’t the only way heat is escaping your home, they are going to be the area where the most heat is being released.
Have Your Home Tested for Energy Efficiency
To find out just where you are losing the most heat, you can have your home tested. Many local utility companies will come out and assess your home for energy efficiency for free. They will go around your whole home and figure out where the most air transfer is occurring; where it shouldn’t be.
This free service is something that you definitely need to take advantage of, if offered; you can’t fix something if you don’t know where it is broke.
Why Energy-Efficient Windows for Your Home?
Once it has been determined that your windows are the greatest source of your heating and cooling loss from your home, you need to make improvements or the high heating and cooling bills will just continue. You could always try to repair your windows if there are gaps or damage, but if you are losing a large amount of energy through them, replacing them is your best option to stop the problem.
Energy-efficient windows work as a better barrier, than regular windows, to keep the outside air on the outside and the inside air on the inside.
Financing Energy-Efficient Windows for Your House
If you find that replacing your old windows with new, energy-efficient one is a little out of your budget, there are programs that can help. Many utility companies, welfare programs, private organizations and the Department of Energy offer help to those that need to make their home more energy-efficient; which includes putting in energy-efficient windows.
Depending on the program you are going through you may be able to find grants that you don’t have to pay back or low-interest loans that will help you pay for new energy-efficient windows. For more details on how you can make the switch to energy-efficient windows contact your local utility company or visit the Department of Energy’s website for a list of all the programs in your state.
To learn more about Renewal by Andersen’s energy-efficient window options, schedule a free in-home consultation today!
