Our electric bill last month was very high....around $250.00. I was completely freaked out and started stressing over high bills and summer had not even started, well not officially! The worse news was that we were having record high temperatures and my ac unit would not cool the house down lower than about 82 during the day. My handy-dandy brothers suggested we first check around our ac unit to make sure the shrubs had not grown too closely. If the unit can't circulate the air around it, it will not work effectively. Matt went to work and made sure the shrubs were all trimmed. Done...next check your insulation. Matt trudged up to the attic and discovered that we have about 6 inches of insulation. The problem there is that we should have between 15-18 inches. YIKES....okay, call the insulation people. The price for installation and supplies from Home Depot...only .99 a sq.ft. That is where the problem starts and my life as a Handy Woman began....instead of paying about $1,500 we spent about $250 and installed it ourselves...Matt did the real work...I just got to keep the "machine" full of the insulation fluff stuff. It was not hard work in terms of manual labor hard. It was hard in terms of lots and lots of dust. Fortunately it cleaned up easily and was not itchy at all!
Keep your fingers crossed that this helps. The next step suggested would be windows and there is no money for that project!
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it never ends with the house repairs, huh?! way to go doing it yourself! hope it works!
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