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Properly installed high efficiency windows are beautiful, improve the comfort of your home, and increase the resale value of your home. If your windows are single pane or are leaky, you should consider replacing them.
Since you’re not likely to replace your windows more than once every 30 years, you’ll want to get the most efficient windows possible to increase the lifetime performance and overall value of the purchase. Installing energy-efficient window, door and skylight products can reduce your heating and cooling bills.
You will also notice improvements in performance in places other than your energy bills. Low-e coatings (an advanced window coating technology used in many new windows to decrease the harmful and uncomfortable rays of the sun) on a gas-filled (gasses such as argon or krypton), double-pane window can significantly increase the comfort of your home. Imagine being able to sit in front of the window in the dead of winter or the peak of summer and feeling perfectly comfortable.
In addition, these window technologies can significantly reduce fading in furniture and draperies, help to decrease maintenance costs of heating and cooling appliances by reducing strain on the units, decrease condensation on the inside of windows and increase light into the home.
ENERGY STAR® rated, low-e windows generally cost between 5 to 10 percent more than their inefficient counterparts, but since half of the cost of a new window purchase is in the installation, the actual increase in total cost is quite low. Since energy-efficient windows reduce your energy bills and increase your comfort, it is truly worth the small cost increase to improve the view from your most valuable asset, your home. Learn more about what window is best for your climate on the Efficient Windows Collaborative’s website: here and at the ENERGY STAR® website.
Results
are already adding up. In 2004 alone, Americans, with
the help of ENERGY STAR, saved enough energy to power
24 million homes and avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent
to those from 20 million cars – all while saving $10 billion.
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| ENERGY STAR® is a government-backed program helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. |