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Show Ensigy Thieves Will Roh Amarican Households This Year; 10 Dust Wanted List To Save IVIonsy glas Corporation, a leading manufacturer of fiber glass insulation. He offers a 10 Most Wanted List of the energy wasters: Underinsulated attics Uninsulated walls Uninsulated floorscrawl spaces Uninsulated basement walls No weatherstripping e furnaces Improperly adjusted water Robbery wil be committed in millions of American homes this year, and one of them may be yours. The losses will be energy dollars, because the robbers are the energy thieves in the areas in your home that waste energy and drive up , your fuel bills. There are many such thieves in a home, comments Richard Trumbull, vice president of OwensComing Fiber- . Out-of-tun- From page one tr Do it yourself ing warm months. The braver you aren't cooling the yard as well, with ventilators in the roof to reduce heat buildup in the attic, with ceiling fans to fans or whole-hous- e work with your air conditioner to spread the cool air around and keep the air conditioner from working so or more experienced undertake bigger handy-peop- projects ing bath le paneling, remodel- or kitchen, planting a garden or even adding a room or patio. No matter what your project, theres a hardware store or home center nearby with the merchandise and advice you want to accomplish your project with the greatest of ease and efficiency. Suppose ...your house paint . is peeling off. You patched it up last spring and already it needs repair again. Why? Maybe it needs to be scraped and washed down. Maybe it needs a prime coat. Maybe another kind of paint would be better. A hardware or home center salesperson can help you find out what the real problem is and suggest a proper solution. Suppose...your yard has turned brown or shows other signs of ill health. Disease or fungus may be attacking it or maybe it just needs a good shot of fertilizer the right fertilizer. Again, that hardware or home center salesperson will ask you questions, suggest remedies. Suppose...you paid some pretty high electrical bills last summer to support an air conditioner. Youd just as soon not pay so much, but you dont want to give up your cool comfort, either. A visit to the hardware store or home center may show you how to accomplish with better both goals caulking and weatherstripping around the windows so A Rmwwabl heaters . e Ignorant thermostats e Cracks in caulking e No storm windows or doors .Finding the thieves is easy, Mr. Trumbull points out, and arresting them can be just as easy. Small investments, combined with good, common sense can often reduce energy consumption in a home dramatically." Number 1: Attics The underinsulated attic remains the homes largest area of heat loss. Insulating it properly, however, can cut a home's energy costs 18 to 23 percent, according to a recent U.S.' Department of Energy (DOE) publication. This enemy can be found far and wide. A National Family Opinion poll indicates that more than 10 million U.S. households are without any attic insulation. Further, the study indicates, another 22 million households are underinsulated; they have less than 6 inches of insulation, the level considered absolute minimum by most experts in and out of government. Determining if your attic is uninsulated or underinsulated is relatively easy, particularly if it is unfloored. All you need to do is put on a pair of gloves, go up there if inflatwith a ruler and measure ion is present its thickness. If your attic is floored, simply remove one of the , (R-val- R-1- -- floorboards and take the measurement. once youve done so," Mr. Trumbull says, visit your local building supply dealer and bring along a small sample of the insulation. With the sample and the measurement, hell be able hard. This is only a sampling of the kind of help you can get in your nearest hardware store or home center. These retailers pride themselves on knowing how to help their customers. Some 20,000 of these stores are members of the National Retail Hardware Association or Home Center Institute, trade associations that provide members with the product information that salespeople need to help , customers. These stores have about repair and imitems on their provement shelves; their salespeople are well versed in what these products will do and how you can solve your home improvement problems. They also have literature available that you can take home to guide you through your project. 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Your building supply dealer should be familiar with these recommendations and can advise you, accordingly. He also can tell recommendyou the ed for other areas of the home, including sidewalls." Number 2: Uninsulated Walk Uninsulated walls are the second largest area of home heat loss. Insulating those walls, according to the DOE, torn to page 3 ", |