I have been working on sealing literally every penetration of the ceiling of our living space. I had a blower door test done last week, and the guy who did it was stunned at how well sealed our house was.
I had not a chance to seal the recessed fixtures that are in our kitchen, which I just did this past weekend. I want to get more insulation blown into the attic, but I'm not sure that it makes good fiscal sense, as we already have enough for about R-30, I believe. Now that the ceiling is sealed, I'll be putting in a solar powered attic fan to try and reduce attic temperatures during cooling season. Our ductwork runs in the attic, so anything I can do to reduce temperatures in there should help our AC. Dan Sent from my iPad On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I put $300 of fiberglass insulation into our attic in September. For the past > 6 years we've filled the oil tank the first week in September, this year we > filled it yesterday... > > Its nice to see payback for the work... > > The insulation I put in is only phase 1 of what was a 3 phase project that > will take us to about R45. After that we need to see about replacing a few of > the least efficient windows in the house. Next winter I'm thinking about > running foam boards around the base of the house. We supplement our oil heat > with a woodstove in the basement of our 1 story house and I'm sure we're > wasting some of that heat out the base of the house. > > -Curt > > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:35:54 -0600 > From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Cold weather issues > Message-ID: <51019b2a.50...@bennell.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > You need a smaller space to heat and more insualtion. > > Randy > > > On 24/01/2013 1:42 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote: >> $78 is amazing! My place in Maine was built in 1899, it's only partially >> insulated, has three levels and its 3800 sq. ft. Costs me $800 per month in >> oil during the winter months and I keep it at 54 or lower! >> >> Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
