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If you haven’t heard of it, GreenOn is a not-for-profit provincial agency that helps everyone in Ontario contribute to our common goal of becoming more environmentally friendly and meet our provincial emissions reduction targets. Funded through Ontario’s carbon market, GreenOn sponsors programs that everyone in Ontario should be taking advantage of. By updating your property, you can help the planet while saving money in the long run!

Insulation plays a crucial role in the energy efficiency of a home by acting as a barrier between the exterior and the interior. Quality insulation keeps a home comfortable and makes it possible to trap cooled or heated air inside. Without proper insulation, more than half of the heating and cooling energy used in a home would simply escape through the roof, walls, or crawlspace. As an insulation company providing spray foam insulation in Bowmanville, the team at Durham Insulation believes that it's important for homeowners to be familiar with the signs that their insulation needs replacing.

Not all mould is visible. Often it hides in attics and behind walls but once you’ve identified it in your home, it’s important to take immediate action. Mould spreads quickly and can penetrate deeply into surfaces, making it progressively more difficult to get rid of the longer it’s left untreated.

When snow starts to melt on your roof but then refreezes elsewhere on the surface, an ice dam forms. When melting commences again, the moisture collects under the ice dam and then has the potential to seep underneath the protective outer-layer of your roof. The worst-case scenario involves this water then penetrating the interior layers of your home. The central offender in ice damming? Uneven heating of the roof’s surface. This is why ice dams most commonly form at the edges of roofs and form those picturesque but less-than-ideal icicles. While most of us are well-versed to ice damming in Bowmanville and the potential hazards, many myths about their nature and how to deal with them prevail. Here are some of the more common ones.

Considering getting services from an insulation company in Oshawa or throughout the GTA for your home? Whether you’re in need of a complete insulation solution or are simply looking to add on to what already exists in your home, you have options. These are the most commonly used types of insulation and their attributes.

Year after year, Ontarians spend big money on heating their homes. And if you heat with electricity, your heating costs have gone up more than 15 percent over the last year. Yet many homes lose heat through their roofs due to inadequate blown insulation in Whitby. While edifices in warmer climates can get away with insulation at an R-value of 38, us lucky folk living in the Great White North require R-49 to achieve adequate protection from our extreme winter temperatures.