Weatherization and Energy Audits
Low-income incentives
Weatherization for low-income home owners, renters and landlords If your income is under King County low income guidelines you may be able to getfree or cheap weatherization services. Go here King County Housing Authority . Landlords — this is for you too. Find out how to weatherize and defray expenses. See more »
VIDEO: How to seal holes in your house
From the green Dream Group See more »
VIDEO: How to weatherstrip doors
From the fabulous Green Dream Group. See more »
VIDEO: How to seal your windows tight
from Sierra Club Green Home and the Green Dream Group See more »
VIDEO: How to seal exposed ductwork
Another video from the Green Dream Group. See more »
Guide from Energy Star
Download an excellent how-to seal and insulate guide from the Energy Star people.[pdf] See more »
Island Contractors
At WisEnergy we've done our best to talk to island contractors and suppliers, talk to folks who've used them... See more »
How do you insulate a brick house?
At a talk before the Kiwanis folks a few weeks ago someone asked that question. We hemmed and hawed and said we'd get back to them on that. So here it is, courtesy of Greg Kruse of PotentialEnergy, Inc. See more »
Step-by-Step. Our Energy Audit
We live in a house we love. It has high ceilings, barnwood siding, and a killer view. It also leaks like a sieve. It was built in the 30s and added on to, remodeled, torn down and built up. It’s a lot like other houses in that regard. Doing something about the leaks has been [...] See more »
Energy Mortgages
An energy mortgage is a mortgage that credits a home's energy efficiency in the home loan. For an energy efficient home, for example, it could mean giving the home buyer the ability to buy a higher quality home because of the lower monthly costs of heating and cooling the home. For homes in which the energy efficiency can be improved, this concept allows the money saved in monthly utility bills to finance energy improvements. See more »
Step-by-Step Home Audit Booklet
When we started out trying to put together materials for increasing one’s home “cuddle-ization” factor, we discovered that many, possibly more brilliant, minds had already been hard at work on the problem. See more »