attic insulation

What a manufacturer spec sheet or code minimum never spells out is the real dollar cost of falling short. Last winter, in a home outside northern Utah, I found that out firsthand while working with a homeowner paying $380 a month just to heat his house. His attic clearly had insulation in it — visible, … Read more

A four percent gap in coverage is enough to wipe out half your insulation’s rated performance — and that’s almost the exact math I was staring at last fall when a homeowner called me in a near-panic. She’d just paid a contractor good money to insulate her attic with batts, and somehow her heating bill … Read more