{"id":1024,"date":"2012-05-13T22:28:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conniesmithson.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2012-05-13T22:28:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:28:06","slug":"home-energy-audit-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/05\/13\/home-energy-audit-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Home energy audit to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of this past winter, and the amount that our energy bills were, we have decided to have a home energy audit. I know that this house is old and drafty, but it also can be fixed up to be a warm and cozy place, with the right assistance to show and tell us how we can save money on our energy bills.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always lived in older homes that were cold and drafty while I was in my 20&#8217;s. I loved each house, and it seemed rather &#8220;quaint&#8221; to have to use lap robes and haul in wood for the fire place, that wasn&#8217;t for ambiance, but for real heat. Now that I am older and know more about ways to save money in the long run with the heating bills, I want to hire a home insulation contractor, since I found out we have very little insulation in this house.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read that there are federal grants for home improvement, and that would help a great deal with the financial aspect of getting my home insulated and perhaps do even more improvement of the house, as I&#8217;m super tired of waiting for the money that I save, to be enough for these improvements. It would add to my peace of mind if I knew I could be able to fix this home up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of this past winter, and the amount that our energy bills were, we have decided to have a home energy audit. I know that this house is old and drafty, but it also can be fixed up to be a warm and cozy place, with the right assistance to show and tell us how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/05\/13\/home-energy-audit-to-save-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home energy audit to save money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[312,454,487,590,720],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvements","tag-energy-saving","tag-heatin-and-lighting","tag-house","tag-money-matters-2","tag-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}