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    Heating and cooling account for 49% of home energy usage. Insulation is key to reducing heating costs, as uninsulated homes allow heat to escape. Proper insulation lowers heat transfer between indoors and outdoors. Many insulation materials and installation techniques exist. 90% of US homes are underinsulated, especially those built before 1960. Checking municipal records, temperature differences between rooms, and drafts can assess a home's insulation. Installing attic, crawl space, and basement insulation can save the average family 15% on heating bills, or around 700TL annually in colder areas. With insulation costing 10-20TL per square meter, it pays for itself through reduced energy costs and increased property value over

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    Heating and cooling account for 49% of home energy usage. Insulation is key to reducing heating costs, as uninsulated homes allow heat to escape. Proper insulation lowers heat transfer between indoors and outdoors. Many insulation materials and installation techniques exist. 90% of US homes are underinsulated, especially those built before 1960. Checking municipal records, temperature differences between rooms, and drafts can assess a home's insulation. Installing attic, crawl space, and basement insulation can save the average family 15% on heating bills, or around 700TL annually in colder areas. With insulation costing 10-20TL per square meter, it pays for itself through reduced energy costs and increased property value over

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    Heating and cooling account for 49% of home energy usage. Insulation is key to reducing heating costs, as uninsulated homes allow heat to escape. Proper insulation lowers heat transfer between indoors and outdoors. Many insulation materials and installation techniques exist. 90% of US homes are underinsulated, especially those built before 1960. Checking municipal records, temperature differences between rooms, and drafts can assess a home's insulation. Installing attic, crawl space, and basement insulation can save the average family 15% on heating bills, or around 700TL annually in colder areas. With insulation costing 10-20TL per square meter, it pays for itself through reduced energy costs and increased property value over

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    Heating and cooling account for 49 percent of a home's energy expenditure, according
    to the US Department of Energy. One of the biggest reasons your energy expenses may rise
    during the winter is if your home isn't adequately insulated. First of all, the goal of insulating
    your house is to reduce the amount of heat exchanged between the house and the surrounding
    environment. There are several Insulation materials (fiberglass, polystyrene, mineral wool, etc.)
    and techniques of application (spray-in foam, loose-fill, batting rolls). According to the North
    American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA), 90 percent of single-family houses in
    the United States are under-insulated, so chances are your home may benefit from some
    improvement. Homes built before 1960 are especially susceptible. The most effective approach
    to check whether your insulation is adequate is to contact the municipality of Kayseri and
    inquire about the insulation of your building in their records. Some other ways you can check if
    your house is properly insulated or not is to check if the temperature changes dramatically from
    one room to the next. You should also look for drafts, which are an indication of air leakage and
    are most commonly seen around a window or balcony doors. Also, you can record your heating
    bills and check with your friends or with the municipality`s sustainability standards for
    consumption for whether you are consuming more than needed. Environment agencies
    reports that the average family can save 15% on heating costs by adding insulation in attics,
    crawl spaces, and basement rim joists. For most people, it equates to around 700TL in annual
    savings. Savings increase by up to 20% in colder sections of the nation, such as climatic zones six
    and seven. With most insulation types costing between 10TL and 20TL per square meter on
    average. It is definitely worth the investment to upgrade an under-insulated home. It's an
    investment that will pay off in lower energy costs and increased property value, as well as fewer
    greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, we got some inspiration from articles about the
    problem of house insulation and its effects on house heating consumption. House heating uses
    a substantial amount of fuel. Scott (1980) contends that studies in this field have been
    disappointing thus far due to a lack of a solid foundation in economic theory. The author
    creates a house heating fuel consumption model that includes fuel price, consumer income,
    and utility functions, as well as a heat production function that considers the house as a
    corporation creating heat levels. It is presented the notion of an achievable heat function. This
    relates heat levels to the amount of money customers can spend on gasoline, and its exclusion
    has been a fundamental flaw in prior research. The model is empirically studied, and
    hypotheses concerning fuel prices, real incomes, and temperature are tested.
    Alex Scott, The economics of house heating, Energy Economics, Volume 2, Issue 3, 1980, Pages
    130-141, ISSN 0140-9883, https://doi.org/10.1016/0140-9883(80)90024-9.

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