The largest portion of your energy costs come from heating and cooling your home.  While serious issues such as an improperly sized HVAC unit or inefficient ductwork can increase energy use and lead to high electric bills, many problems Jackson EMC uncovers during energy audits involve relatively simple fixes – especially in the areas of air sealing and insulation.

Videos and Step-by-Step Instructions

You can save energy and money by making some easy and inexpensive improvements to your home.  We’ll show you how, step-by-step.

And if you want additional help, you can call your local Jackson EMC office for an in-home energy audit that can uncover a variety of energy efficiency issues, or schedule a Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® audit that uses state-of-the-art equipment to analyze your home’s energy use and make specific recommendations for improvement.  And, Jackson EMC has a highly qualified contractor network that can perform the work to make your home save energy and money – and make you comfortable!

Knee Walls

Knee walls found in homes with finished attics, bonus rooms and high ceilings are vertical walls with attic space around them. These walls are often poorly insulated. Click here for more...

Insulating Your Attic Access

You can easily insulate and seal your attic access, whether you have pull-down stairs, a scuttle hole or a standard interior door type of access. Click here for more...

Caulking and Sealing

If you see cracks in walls, ceilings or woodwork, you’re losing air that you’ve paid to heat or cool to the unconditioned space in your attic or the outdoors.  Those small cracks and gaps can create big comfort problems and high bills.  It’s a fairly easy and inexpensive job to seal them up. Click here for more...

Weatherstripping

Weather stripping around windows and doors and sealing around plumbing penetrations with caulk or expanding foam can make a real dent in air leakage. Energy experts agree that these inexpensive repairs can often pay for themselves in savings
within about a year.  Click here for more...

Attic Insulation

If your home was built specifically to be an energy efficient home, chances are you have enough insulation. But if it wasn't, you could probably benefit from additional attic insulation.  Click here for more...