When Marilyn Cole heard the horror stories of high heating bills this winter, she could smile contentedly in her cozy new Kansas City, North, home, which she had taken care to make energy efficient. You always wonder. She didn't wonder long. Cole made sure her builder blew wet cellulose insulation into the attic and into the walls. I would never build a house or buy a house without one.
Consumers have an incentive.
Pat Hamilton is pleased. She and her husband, Roy, had a furnace and heat pump system installed when they remodeled their older Wyandotte County home last year. Pump up the savings Dual-fuel systems consist of an electric heat pump and a gas furnace. The savings comes from the fact that the heat pump draws existing heat out of the air, so in winter a furnace doesn't work as hard. In the summer, the heat pump acts like an air conditioner and dispels warm air from the house.