Old Windows Can Drain Your Pocket Book, Perhaps It Is Time To Upgrade

We have all seen them; we all had them and we all made plans to change them. If the house you live is ten or fifteen years old, the chances are that your windows are not doing their job - in fact, they might be doing more harm that you care to imagine.

Old units are not as efficient and effective as new designs available on the market today. Replacing them could potentially put more money in your pocket and could actually be painless - in fact a pleasurable experience. Not only will you get more energy efficiency in your house, but ultimately will make your environment more beautiful and your house more attractive for resale. New fixtures in a house make an awesome selling point as well as give you and your family a more enjoyable and a more comfortable environment to live in. In fact, you might already be thinking of the work ahead, but just like with everyone else, life gets in the way, and the project gets pushed back because something else more important gets on the agenda. The following facts might help in convincing you of the necessity to do so as soon as possible.

Consider the following:

Your glass result in energy loss by conduction. In the winter months, cold air literally pulls the heated air out of your home!

Your openings trigger energy loss through radiance. During the warm months, heat pours into your house because of a process called direct radiation.

To put it differently, old single pane glass are very ineffective in terms of maintaining your home comfortable in the winter and cool in the summer. Warm air is always attracted to cold air.

I am not much of a believer in statistics, but I thought the following bit of information might be interesting, in fact even shocking:

Look at the figures below:

20.8% of total heat loss is attributable to cracks around your glazed opening and your doors - 26.6% is lost through glass panes (by means of radiation).

Approximately half of every dollar you spend on heating and cooling your home is literally going out your windows and doors.

50% of the 110 million U.S. buildings have ineffective, single pane glass which adds as much as 35% of energy lost in structures as well as 10% of total carbon emission in the U.S. annually.

Since practically 20% of our carbon footprint results from heating and cooling our buildings, we must take a closer look at one of the major energy-wasting culprits…your old, drafty openings.

We use oil in the Northeast regions for heating a house for the winter. This can use up about just as much energy as running a vehicle for a whole year! Simply by updating old, single-pane fixtures with new vinyl double-pane replacement ones in a two-story, 2,000 square foot home, you can easily save as much as 100 gallons of heating oil. This will potentially save over 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually!

So go ahead and continue procrastinating if you wish to throw money away - or decide that it is time to act and take control of your environment.

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