Caulking: Cost-efficient and Energy-saving Home Improvement
Tightening your home if you’re on a tight budget is very important. With the energy prices increasing all over the country, it is but a necessity to save from the energy costs we are spending in our own home.
Save energy and you can save dollars; seal the leaks and gaps in your home.
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This is a very timely article to consider since winter is fast approaching and we need to pay attention to our safety as well. If your home has leaks and cracks, what do you usually do?
Leaks and cracks found in our home exteriors need not be set aside and given less priority. Every homeowner must understand that preventing leaks will retain valuable heat during the winter season and thus, making you comfortable and will save you from soaring electricity bills.
As one of the qualified professionals in providing services like exterior painting, we also keep your home from these leaks and cracks. Our team of qualified exterior painters in Calgary can do caulking as well.
What is caulking?
A basic definition of caulking is sealing or filling the gaps and cracks. Sooner or later, every home requires up to date caulking to seal the gaps and cracks that may occur in walls or in other parts of home exteriors.
Did you know that it doesn’t only save you on your heating and air conditioning expenses? It also blocks humidity as well as insects from penetrating your home. Moreover; you can find caulks particularly for brick, wood, concretes and also for glass and metal. The important qualities to look for when choosing caulk are shell-life, how much it shrinks over time, if it can be painted, and if it clears up with soap and water or requires a solvent like paint thinner.
When applying caulk, you need to consider the weather first. For colder temperature silicone is the best to use compared to polyurethane. If the temperature drops, polyurethane becomes even harder so the bond is not permanent while silicone remains flexible and is ideal to use for colder season.
We will give you a detailed caulking process in our future post but if you really need to have it done as early as now; don’t hesitate to contact us @ (403) 708-3043.