Winterizing greatly reduced the heating costs
I have to say that I’ve never been happier this deep into winter. First, we are really toasty in our home. I mean like sit on the couch in shirt sleeves type of cozy. That’s never been the case as long as we’ve been here. And that’s squarely on me for not getting after prepping the house for winter. But this fall, I just got the feeling that this would be a big saver for us if I did my part with the winter prep. I’d heard that sealing up a house good and tight helped with heating costs. I don’t know that I put that much stock into what I heard. But the house can get kind of loud on the weekends with all the kids. So getting out for a few weekends to winterize my home seemed rather appealing. It was really easy because all I had to do was go to the HVAC company website. I downloaded their winter prep checklist and just took it step by step. They even had a list of materials that I would need from the home improvement store. Essentially, all I did was put a tight seal on our home. I did replace both storm doors and added additional weather stripping around the entrances. I also made sure that every gap or crack I could find on the outside of the house with sealed tight. Finally, I rolled out some additional insulation and that was pretty much that. Here I am in February having saved over 20% on my heating costs so far this winter. But better than the heating savings is the heating in our house as it’s so very warm in here.