This hidden-in-plain-sight upgrade can mean saving on your electricity bills and enjoying a much more comfortable home during hot summers.
By Christopher Solomon of MSN Real Estate
Hanson owns a home in Canyon Lake, Calif. “The average temperatures out here are well in the 100s all summer long, so our (electricity) bills were $800 a month. It was pretty outrageous. We could not cool the house down. We’d run the air conditioner
all the time.”
A big problem was the original concrete tile roof, which sat on the rafters and radiated that heat right into the house.
Then Hanson and her husband swapped out that roof for a so-called “cool roof” of green tiles on their 3,000-square-foot house. (They made other improvements, too, such as upgrading the home’s windows and adding attic insulation.)
“We also put a swimming pool in, and even with that swimming pool, with the filter running, our bills in the summer are probably 200 bucks a month less,” she says.
The best part, she says, is “my house is comfortable all the time.” (More …)
RISMEDIA, January 20, 2011—HomeGain.com, a website to offering Web-based, free instant home values, announced that it has released the results of its nationwide home improvement and home staging Home Sale Maximizer survey.
