Home comfort / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...homes Improving the airtightness of an older home is one of the most effective ways to improve its comfort, efficiency, and indoor air quality. Air barriers and air leakage in homes were simply not topics of conversation about 50 years ago, so if your home is from the 1970s or earlier and it has never been updated, you...

...homes. Now you know more about electric home heating, learn more about sustainable home comfort, energy efficiency and how to reduce the carbon footprint of homes on the following pages and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide. Different types of electric home heating - which are best? DIY hydronic heating - how...

...comfort. If the temperatures of the surfaces in your home are warmer, you will feel more comfortable regardless of what your thermostat says. Other environmental factors beyond just the average air temperature and heat radiating to and from the surrounding surfaces of your home will further muddy the waters defining co...