This book is written by homeowners, for homeowners. The main goal of this book is to encourage and help you to make your home more energy efficient by doing the work yourself. We did it and so can you! We focus on home improvements that you can do yourself and will save you money by conserving energy and making your home more comfortable. The goals of this book are to help you:
Lower your utility bills
Make your home more energy efficient
Improve the comfort and quality of your home's inside environment
Provide practical tips you can do yourself
Provide you with enough detailed information to get the job done right
Easily determine if you should use a different energy source
We feel this book provides a fresh approach to making your home energy efficient because this book has a homeowner point of view. We provide you with calculators that show you how your home is improving. You may find that we go into a little more detail in our suggestions than offered on other books because we believe we believe these sources do not provide specific enough details for you to become comfortable in doing this work yourself. We tried however to get directly to the point, so that you are not overwhelmed with unneeded information.
Using our free companion web site we discuss several calculators to test your home’s performance as you improve your home. These calculators are easy to run, give you measurable results, and are designed to encourage you to do more. You will see how your work paid off. This is where we feel our approach to energy efficiency is unique. You can measure and report the improvement using our free web site.
