Do you need FREE help to make your home comfier and healthier?

There are some FREE resources out there to learn how to make your home more comfortable and how to best spend your money/time to fix them.  Often, if you learn which questions to ask, you can get someone else to fix them right, the first time!  Nate Adams is an HVAC expert, and he’s put together some great resources for the homeowner AND contractors.   He’s big into answering “why?” questions so that your curiosity is satisfied and you want to keep learning.

Here are the free resources, including:

• Home Comfort 101: It’s a free chapter from his book The Home Comfort Book, and this is a really good start, explaining why air sealing is SO IMPORTANT.

• HVAC 101:  Explains, among other things, why your car’s heating/cooling feels so much more comfortable than your home, why single-speed systems are terrible at comfort, and the 6 aspects of creating a comfortable indoor climate.

• Bath Fan Guide: Very good info on how to select a bath fan and where to run the exhaust (always outside!).  Examples of good, better and best fans and why.

• Lighting Guide: Nate explains the differences between incandescent, halogen, CFL, LED and fluorescent bulbs, as well as light “color” and “temperature”.  It really is an invaluable guide before redesigning your lighting or even just going ot the store or online to buy new bulbs. 

We’ve downloaded these and can certify, they provide a sufficient depth of information that will really help you understand the subject. 

Now, of course every expert has to have ways of generating income, and Nate has 3 courses for sale that really dig into the meat of their subject.  

1. The Home Comfort Book: His book is available in digital or hard copy, and gives followup to the HVAC 101, as well as an insulation guide, so that you can figure out why some rooms are drafty in winter, why the upstairs is so much hotter than the downstairs, why you feel better when you’re actually NOT in your home, etc.  

2. The Air Sealing Course: With over 1000 slides, Nate goes into the concepts of air sealing, materials used, how to do it, and the 4 common house types you will encounter as a homeowner.  He says it’s “everything he wished he knew 18+ years ago” starting out in building science.  He also emphasizes that air sealing your home is a MUST before making any type of HVAC changes or upgrades. 

3. Electrify Everything course is focused on getting rid of gas appliances and switching to all-electric.  This is the healthiest option, as gas appliances often expel hydrocarbons into your indoor air, so in cities this makes a lot of sense, but in areas with power disruptions it might not. 

Who knows, Nate’s courses might just inspire you to help others with their homes and open up a new line of work for you.  At the very least, it will help you to speak intelligently with builders, HVAC, insulation, and energy auditor contractors (among others) about your own home, making it the place that supports your health and comfort!

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash