July 25th, 2011
In older houses your attic and doorways are the first place to start to help in lowering your electric bill in the summer.
It really does not cost much to make a significant impact on your electric bill by insulating the attic, duct work, and putting seals on doorways and windows.
In older houses you usually have lower ceilings in the house which ads to the effect when you insulate your attic. It does not take as much air conditioning to cool your house when your ceilings are only 8 feet high.
To begin your cost reduction task go to Home Depot, Lowe’s or any local hardware store and get some weather stripping for doors and windows.
There are also strips that can be attached at the bottom of a doorway that stick on and drag the ground. Ask for the lower strips as well, they take about 30 seconds to put on.
For most people you will be able to glue and or nail the weather stripping on yourself. I personally did a combination of nailing and gluing. Be sure to use the very small tack nails so you don’t effect the structural components of your windows and doors.
Now for the attic you can get blow in insulation from most hardware stores and it comes with a blow in machine. The problem is that if you call the top 3 insulation companies in Tyler TX you will be able to get a cheaper price for insulation and installation than the cost of purchasing the materials at either large hardware store.
It simply makes no sense to insulate your attic yourself when the professionals can do it cheaper than it will cost you to buy the materials.
In older houses sometimes the duct work has not been wrapped in insulation. Also the duct work very well may have no mastic paint sealing the cracks at each connection of duct work.
When it comes to mastic seals and insulating the duct work you are talking about a lot of time up in the attic to do this. This is one of the more costly aspects to attic and ac conditioning insulation.
For those who want to do this yourself it is as simple as getting a paint brush, mastic, and duct insulation. You will also need a cutting blade to cut the insulation.
I recommend getting a licensed ac repair company in Tyler Texas to do the duct work insulating as they can knock it out quick and you don’t have to deal with being in your attic for extended periods of time.
We recommend calling Aire Serv of Tyler Texas for any duct work insulation work you need done. When contacting a Tyler TX ac repair company be sure to get a few quotes and go with the company willing to give you referrals and examples of the work they have done.
If you perform all of these low cost energy efficiency steps in your house you could lower your summer electric bill by $100 a month depending on how bad your ac cooling is leaking in your house.
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October 14th, 2010
Tyler Texas Gym
Before you go out and join a gym and definitely before you commit to a year long gym membership I recommend creating your own exercise routine at your home and sticking to it for atleast a year. If you can maintain a good exercise routine at your home for a year doing some type of exercise everyday you can justify a commitment to a gym. You see a Tyler Texas gym membership takes even more discipline and commitment than doing exercise conveniently from your own home.
There is an exception to the whole anti-gym membership idea and that is if you utilize a personal trainer at a gym. The good thing is XTC Fitness has several fitness programs where the personal trainer comes free during the class. If you decide to join a gym I recommend doing a class such as the kickboxing class offered by Tony Cruz’s XTC Fitness gym.
The class is designed for girls or guys and is no wussified class as I am a guy and I take a great deal of pride in my own manliness and find nothing simple or easy about kickboxing but do find it astonishing how good I feel each day now and how easily I shed the pounds.
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Walking over to a chin up bar that is stationed on your hallway doorway takes about 10 seconds. Driving to a gym takes quite a bit longer and requires that you schedule and prioritize things around your excursion from your home to a gym. Many times exercise from home does not require that you change up your schedule at all. You can simply exercise at home when an available slot opens up.
The gym however can work out quite well if you fit it in during your lunch during a 45 minute work out program designed for working men and women as XTC Fitness in Tyler TX offers.
If my thinking on this sounds new and different to what you had in mind take some time to let it sink in as you will save hundreds of dollars by waiting to see if you can even stick to an exercise routine from the convenience of your home. I personally have yet to be able to commit to a year of exercise at home.
An alternative to a gym membership for those who still want to join a gym even if they have yet to establish a home exercise routine is to enroll in a weight lifting exercise class a TJC. TJC offers an exceptional weight lifting, jogging, and excercise class in one that comes with a free personal trainer aka your teacher. You will be taught into shape over the course of a semester and can continue on from there.
A TJC gym class is perhaps the best bang for your buck and a very good way to motivate yourself back into shape.
When all of this is taken into account, it seems a gym membership amounts to nothing more than a waste of good money. However, there are good reasons to throw caution to the wind and just take the plunge. A gym offers a much wider range of quality exercise equipment than most people would have room to store, even if they could afford it. Many gyms also offer specialized classes where members can sign up to work-out in ways that interest them, keeping exercise fun and less boring.
Additionally, when you spend your hard earned money on a gym membership the motivation is there to get your money’s worth. You will be more likely to make the time to work out when you have invested money into it. As for the embarrassment factor, there’s not much to be done except know that in a few weeks you’ll be showing your stuff with the best of them.
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