Does Your Home Have Summertime Syndrome?

Do you have trouble cooling parts of your home during the summer, such as rooms that are beneath your attic, or 2nd or 3rd floors? Do other areas of your home like your basement get freezing cold like a meat locker? How about sky high air conditioning bills?

These symptoms describe something at Insulwise that we call Summertime
Syndrome. This brief animation shows how factors like the sun heating your roof, air leakage issues, under-performing attic insulation, and leaky duct work can contribute mightily to having a home that's not only uncomfortable during the summer months, but also wallet-bustingly expensive to cool!

In Pittsburgh, our summers are both hot AND humid, so air conditioners in many homes run relentlessly, trying to fight the heat coming from the outside. At Insulwise we've perfected a number of methods for keeping your cool, air conditioned air inside your home, as well as keeping the hot and humid air out! For example, many home owners don't appreciate the incredible impact that having their attic air sealed, and then re-insulated with cellulose insulation will have on keeping their home breezy cool, during our hottest days.

Even fewer home owners appreciate how leaky duct systems make cooling their homes difficult (much less the negative impact on interior air quality!) The average home's duct system has a leakage rate of about 30% Please, take a moment to think about that. That means that about 30% of the cooled air created by your air conditioner NEVER gets to the rooms in your home. Where does it go? It bleeds off into your basement, walls, attic, between your floors, etc through leaks. But with our AeroSeal duct sealing process, Insulwise can massively increase the duct flow pressure in your system, delivering FAR MORE cool, conditioned air throughout your home.

Want to increase the comfort of your home, sleep better at night, and lower your cooling costs? Contact Insulwise at 412-260-6701 to schedule a free home consultation or energy audit. We are the highest rated insulation contractor in the Pittsburgh area for a reason (we are just as consistent at driving comfort up, as we are in driving cooling bills down)!

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