The Benefits of Weather-Stripping In Your Home

A 203k streamline mortgage offers the opportunity to make a home more energy efficient, among other things.  One way this can be accomplished is by purchasing new appliances; most of which are much more efficient than our parents’ appliances.  We’ve covered this option in previous posts.  Another way to improve efficiency is to apply weather-stripping and insulation to your home.  Let’s focus on weather-stripping… Many older homes, and even some newer ones, have numerous little cracks, holes and spaces through which, in the winter, warm air escapes and cold air enters. In the summer this works in reverse — unwanted hot air enters and air conditioned air escapes. Air leaks can also damage the house’s insulation, because warm,...

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