Home Decoration

If your home is more than 25 years and because of some renovations, you can enter a new incentive program announced by the Government of Canada to promote energy efficiency of housing, updates area.

The incentive is part of the EnerGuide for Houses program, which in 1998, Natural Resources Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency, which helps Canadians improve the energy efficiency of their homes to save money, improve comfort and reduction of greenhouse gases, the contribution to climate change.

EnerGuide for Houses with a visit to your home by a licensed, on an assessment of energy, energy efficiency rating for the home, and recommends measures to reduce energy consumption while guaranteeing a healthy environment to live. After improvements have been made, the Council provides for a monitoring-evaluation and re-evaluate energy efficiency.

For the home in question and Housing, the incentive amount EnerGuide for Houses on the difference in the evaluation of energy efficiency before and after the upgrade are - the greater the improvement of the Customer rating, the greater the incentive to a maximum of $ 3348th The average incentive is $ 700.

Housing built before 1975 which offer the greatest potential for improving energy efficiency and incentives for adults. Research shows that owners of homes, more than 25 years may on average energy consumption by 32% with the EnerGuide for houses, apartments for 50 years or more, the average energy savings up to 38 per cent.