Insulating your home tips

In this video, Chuck Miller of Brewster, Mass., demonstrates how a 3-in. or 4-in. putty knife with a sharpened blade cuts through the rigid-foam insulation like butter. Included are other tips for working with rigid-foam insulation.

Regretting the decision of not insulating your home enough? Yielding high energy bills? Feeling too cold or too humid inside your house?

Here, we will go through just why it is that insulating your home is so important and what you can expect to get out of it.

Winterizing your home will keep your family warm and save you a lot of money. Here's what you should do to lower your heating bill.

A cold and drafty house can be uncomfortable. Here's why it's cold in the house and some cheap ways to keep your house warm and draft-proof.

We all need to lower our heating bills, right? This ingenious window insulating tip might just be your next weekend project. The total cost is less than $20 and takes about 20 minutes.

Learn how to add insulation to walls that have drywall on them. Find out your options for adding insulation to closed walls.

Looking to save money on utilities? Check out this oft overlooked weatherizing area! Floor registers. Most of us have them. Ours do nothing for our nice fl…

Insulate your entire home with spray foam! #SprayFoam #Hack

It appears we’ve reached the stage of this rebuild in which one big project will be completed every week. It’s Week Four of the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge™ and today, I’m showing you how we are sealing our historic home from the inside to prevent moisture and weather intrusion and provide a sturdy reinforcement to our old wood siding. Not all progress is pretty but this is my favorite new feature of our house so far! …