These hacks will help you make your AC run more efficiently, cutting your power bills and keeping your home cooler than ever.

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the ...

Use duct mastic (available in cans or caulking tubes) to seal small gaps ... cellulose and lightweight foam products reduce heat loss and air leaks.

Cut Fiberglass Batts to Exact Widths It’s easy to insulate your walls with fiberglass insulation (at least when they’re open!

Seal a drafty door by installing foam or felt weatherstripping ... using a manual thermostat. Heating ducts typically waste 20 to 30 percent of the heated air they carry to leaks and poor ...

What a mess! The good news is that an alternative method of cleaning and sealing air ducts exists. While it certainly is possible to abandon the under-slab ducts and to put ducts in soffits or an ...

Only in very recent years have HVAC installers been made to seal air ducts as a building ... basement should be sealed with foam around the outside of the ducts. Use only duct insulation that ...

There are many professionals you can hire to seal your ducts, to blower-door test your home and to air seal, and I encourage that. But that discussion is for another day. At the risk of cliché ...

Nevertheless, if you cool or heat your home with forced air through vents and duct returns, this post is for you. Duct sealing is a great way to improve home comfort, save money and improve indoor ...

The mechanical equipment and supply-return buckets are temporarily blocked with flexible foam pads to keep the injected sealant particles from escaping. The duct system is pressurized by the Aeroseal ...

Duct leakage, said Callender, reduces a system's efficiency by 25 percent. Duct leaks allow conditioned air, whether heated or cooled, to escape or unconditioned air to slip in. The problem ...