When it comes to home repairs or maintenance, there are several things that will most likely rapidly spring to mind: improving your landscaping in order to increase the curb appeal of your home, renovating your bedroom, living room, or kitchen, and finally, simply making sure that your house is nice and tidy. Rarely do people think about ways to better insulate their home. But they—and you!—should. Insulating your home in an adequate manner will ensure that you're saving energy and, as such, you're also saving quite a bit of money. There are a number of ways that you can better insulate your home and reap the benefits that come from good home insulation.

Replace Old Insulation With Foam Insulation

Foam insulation is a polyurethane form of insulation that first gained traction in the 1970s as an alternative to the traditional type of insulation involved in home renovation and repair. Throughout the years, its popularity has soared. There are a number of reasons why you should replace your old insulation with foam insulation, and the primary reason among them is that it is far more effective and, as such, will save you substantially in the long run, financially speaking. Foam insulation is quite easy to install, as well, with many people opting to install it themselves. 

Thicker Curtains

There are a number of cost effective and incredibly simple ways to better insulate your home, but no method is as cost effect and simple as merely adding thicker curtains to the windows in your home. Blackout curtains, for example, will ensure that you are retaining heat in your rooms by better insulating the room itself.

Such curtains will provide you with coverage from the light and will ensure that your monthly energy bill will be significantly less than it was before you used them. Keep the curtains open during the daylight hours to allow light and heat to enter your room, then close them at night to insulate the area and trap the heat in.

Plug Your Chimney

If you are not using a fireplace damper when your fireplace is not in use, you are paying a lot more on your energy bill each month; if your fireplace is not adequately and properly sealed, then you could be losing an ample amount of heat up your chimney flue. Chimney flues suck up the hot air in your home, allowing it to escape.

There are a number of ways that you can ameliorate this situation or simply prevent yourself from losing that much heat. For example, there are balloons that you can place inside of your chimney that are laminated and which you can inflate once they are inside of your chimney that then help stop drafts.

Seal Your Attic

A good amount of heat will escape from the lower floors of your home into the attic (with the laws of thermodynamics stating that heat rises), and that heat will simply do you no good if it continues to leak out of your home through an uninsulated attic. It is recommended that you perform the simple and cost effective act of placing foam insulation in your attic. This will ensure that heat is not escaping your home.

Contact insulation contractors like All Weather Shield Inc for more information.