Because winter is coming on strong in many places, there’s no better time than now to start thinking about how you’ll keep your home and family warm this winter. Rather than just planning to crank up your heater and watch your electric bill skyrocket, you might want to consider some more old fashioned fixes that will help your home better hold the heat in and keep the cold out.
To help you see how this can be done, here are three home improvement tasks that will make your home better insulated.
Plant Some Vegetation
To start off, you may want to take a look at what’s going on outside your home before you start worrying about the insulation that you can do on the inside.
One option, according to AllState and Zillow.com, is to plant some vegetation around the perimeter of your home. By doing this, you’ll help to keep the wind further away from your home in addition to putting another barrier between the inside of your house and the cold air outside. Shrubs or other thick vegetation are ideal for helping with insulation, while they can also help your home to look better landscaped and even increase the …