[Greenbuilding] Cost of Poor Insulation Installation

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh sho11 at comcast.net:

>Here on the West Coast with a mild climate the quality of insulation 
>is generally awful.  I think most people don't think it matters but 
>my house near Santa Cruz costs nearly $3000 each year just to heat 
>it!

     Ye gods.  I live in New Hampshire, and this last winter my house 
was not completely sealed (very leaky, actually, what with plastic 
spread over a missing wall and all).  We used electric heat, because 
whilst we're building we can move the heater around as needed.  We 
used about $1000 of rather expensive electricity.  That will be it 
for the year.

     $3000 in central coastal California?  That's just wrong.

-Speireag.

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