Posts Tagged weatherizing historic homes

How we’ve made our 100-year old home more energy efficient, part 3 (hint: it’s white and it comes in a squeezy tube)

Caulk Caulk Caulk Caulk. That’s the answer to one very effective way we’ve made our 100 year old rustic Carolina farmhouse more energy efficient. To weatherize our home after our disastrous 1st winter in which we heated all of lower Pittsboro, North Carolina, we caulked and caulked and caulked some more. Oh – did I [...]


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How we’ve made our 100-year old home more energy efficient

This will be the first post of several about what we’ve done to our 100-year-old Carolina farmhouse to make it more energy efficient.  We’ve made some really stupid mistakes along the way, but we’ve learned from our mistakes, and trying to create a comfortable, safe and energy efficient home that was built in a different [...]


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