Some people live rustically on purpose. It's trendy. My friend Matthew built a big one room house with a nice shower and super efficient washer and dryer. Nice big one room house with an out house instead of a toilet. On purpose. Way to be sustainable, Matthew.
Others are just hacks. Unfortunately, that's what I must assume about the incompetents who have lived in the house we bought for the last 30 years. Last winter, it wasn't unusual for our thermostat to read 55 degrees inside our home. We knew from our home inspection that the place needed some extra insulating. Last winter, Ben went into the small storage room under our entry way to insulate it, and he could see LOTS of day light. Even after we insulated our basement, the house was still freezing. So this week, Ben dug out the extension ladder and peeked up above the entry way of our house...guess what? No insulation. No insulation over our entire entry way. It's like a 10 by 15 foot room with no insulation. All of our heat, expensive, polluting heat was rising up from our downstairs and going straight through the roof of our entry way.
So, we bought $700 worth of insulation and Ben's been installing it all weekend. Our house is so much warmer already. I can feel my hands. It's great.
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