Do you have unwanted, scaly visitors in your garage? Although most snakes are harmless, the thought of tripping over a snake on the way to the car is enough to drive most homeowners to burn the...

I receive a lot of questions on air-sealing a home. I'm no expert but I have certainly done my research and invested a lot of sweat equity in rehabbing old houses and building new ones. My insight...

When building my new home I researched options for making the structure as energy efficient as possible. At the same time, I needed to work within a budget. I considered foam insulation but it...

I had heard about phantom energy, also called vampire energy, for some time but I never really knew if it was a real thing. And even if it was, did it really matter? I mean, how much energy could I...

At this very moment, energy is being lost in your home. Money is literally seeping out through inefficiencies in your home's thermal envelope and being lost from inefficiency practices and home...

There was a time when a device's energy consumption was easy to understand and estimate. When you turned a device off, it was truly "off" and no power was drawn until it was turned on...