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Are you looking for a house for sale in Carstairs Alberta? Is owning an energy efficient home for sale important to you? Check out this energy efficient home for sale in Carstairs AB and can read below for 3 things you can do when building your home that really cut down on your heating bill.

Winters are long and cold in Canada and heating you home can get very expensive over the winter months. When building a home there are a variety of things you can do to ensure energy efficiency and cost savings for the future. Using these simple tips also helps to preserve the environment because less energy is needed to heat your home.

Although it's standard to build your home with one-foot exterior walls, consider building with two-foot exterior walls instead. Why? Because by doubling the walls' thickness and using extensive insulation in between, you can have better climate control inside your house. And in addition, before you build your inside wall, you build the vapor barrier over the insulation. This means that electrical plugs and wiring won't pierce the vapor barrier -- and that means you won't have cold air leaking in through your electrical outlets even on the coldest winter days.

Having thicker double walls also allows you to eliminate any thermal bridges from the outside of your home. A thermal bridge is anywhere cold from the outside is transmitted through the walls to the inside, for example when the studs in the outer wall touch the studs in the inner wall. A simple way to eliminate thermal bridges is to make sure that the inner and outer wall studs are offset from each other and touch insulation not the other wall.

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