Once, I was prone to freeze in the winter and sweat in the summer inside our home. I could have lived outside and experienced similar conditions. Last month, Moore McDonough, owner of 360 Energy Savers and a local energy specialist, spent several days advising us on how to improve our older home's heating and cooling system.
I'm a bottom line kind of a girl. Just the facts and make it quick. You do not get that with Moore. He gave us the Wikipedia version of everything and I certainly appreciated his knowledge. For example: "One inch of insulation material is equal to the heat resistance of a foot and a half of brick". Fascinating, right? This is definitely cocktail hour trivia.
Moore's employees, Shawn and Eric, who are extremely polite and hard-working, installed weather-stripping, insulation, and expanded our vent system. These guys spent a lot of time crawling around the attic like giant rats. At one point, Moore brought in an Energy Conservationist who created a new duct system and performed additional work netting us numerous rebates from the City of Austin.
Our first bill, even with the summer heat, was less than our last cooler weather bill. Plus, the rebates will pay for more than 25% of what we had done, which included a new air conditioning unit. We are now, accordingly, freezing in the summer. read more
