Your Warm Rooms Delightful During Frightful Winter
| Parts of the Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions were still digging out of four weeks of snow as temperatures iced California’s citrus crop. San Francisco Bay Area residents kept an eye out for the first snow flurries in years. Frigid air flowed into New England as wind chill factors pushed some temperatures in the upper states’ hinterlands to 35 below zero. Ocean-effect snow showers were forecast for Cape Cod. New Orleans shivered through 30 degree temperatures and Mother Nature put central and southern Texas into the deep freeze. The Deep South and Southern California held onto “heat waves” with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. |  |
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Comfort Institute, an indoor comfort research, training and consumer protection organization based in chilly Bellingham, WA, offer these tips to get your house in order for what’s likely to be a long, bleak winter even Punxsutawney Phil can’t stop.The DOE says the typical duct system loses 25 to 40 percent of the energy put out by the central furnace, heat pump or air conditioner. That puts a strain on your wallet as well as comfort levels in your home. Heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) contractors can diagnose and pinpoint duct leak locations and check the static pressure in your ducts and ventilation system. The exam is often part of an energy audit used to also examine insulation, air leaks and other energy inefficiencies in your home.
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