Your Mother Always Told You to Wear a Hat. Your House Needs One Too – Attic Insulation from Owens Corning!

January 26, 2012

It’s a known scientific fact that heat rises and exits from the top of structures whenever it can, especially if access is easy and unhindered. This scientific fact has prompted mothers down through the ages to instruct their children to always wear hats during the cold winter months as a means to keep body heat inside and the cold air outside of their children’s bodies. The same applies and holds true for homes and heat during the cold winter months!

Heat mapping by infrared cameras has shown time and again that huge amounts of energy are lost out of the tops of houses that have not been properly insulated, since heat rises and escapes through roofing vents, thin wooden roof materials, missing shingles and the like. Indeed, a natural way to measure the amount of heat leaving your home is to gauge how much snow is melting off your roof during a cold day. Technically speaking, a well-insulated house should lose little heat and thus those well-insulated homes will have roofs that remain chilly, with full coatings of snow on the outsides of the roofs. When other homes in the neighborhood seem to have white roofs all winter-long and your roof is barren of snow, that’s a strong sign that heat is escaping and melting the snow on your home’s top surface.

AttiCat blown-in insulation from Owens Corning increases the efficiency of your home’s energy system by up to 20%, reducing your heating bills all winter-long. Why lose up to 40% of the conditioned air your home’s furnace generates when you can contain it, save money and stop wasting energy altogether. Learn more about expanding blown-in AttiCat insulation from Owens Corning as sold and installed by Bee Window. We know you’ll like what you learn!

Have You Considered Vinyl Siding Replacement for Your Home for the New Year?

January 19, 2012

Vinyl siding is one of the coolest and most unconsidered home improvement projects you can undertake for your home, and Bee aims to bring that lack of consideration to a grinding halt in 2012. With its affordability, vast appearance improvement potential, and great additional effects, vinyl siding should be the most popular home improvement maneuver you can execute for your property.

Consider some of the many great benefits of covering your existing home with vinyl replacement siding from Bee Window:

• Vinyl siding provides up to 3 times the energy efficiency of regular siding for home insulation effect
• Vinyl siding resists sun, wind, rain and snow and will not flake or peel like house paint. Imagine never having to paint your house again!
• Classic vinyl siding designs like 4 ½ Clapboard and Dutch actually give the appearance of wooden siding to your home for a beautiful visage.
• Bee’s Super Energy Wall vinyl siding won’t warp, rot or peel; just wash it now and then with a garden hose and you’re all set for a clean-looking home outside.

With all this and more going for it, we think everyone who owns a home should consider the value and practicality of replacement vinyl siding. Won’t you as well? Visit our page on replacement vinyl siding and see for yourself about the beauty, efficiency and energy conservation values inherent in our vinyl siding for existing homes. We think you’ll like what you see….presented to you from Bee!

$12,000 in Home Improvements Could “Bee” Yours with Our 3-Time Contest in 2012 for Home Owners

January 12, 2012

In this economy, $12,000 in home improvement products and services is certainly nothing to sneeze at! And Bee Windows will be giving that much away – three times this year, to lucky winners! Best of all, it’s simply so easy to enter that even a child can do it, although for legal reasons you need to be an adult in order to win.

Every year, Bee Window gives away a hive-load of products and services to lucky winners – products like Andersen replacement windows, home vinyl siding replacement services, kitchen and bathroom resurfacing and remodeling supplies and services, patio enclosures, room additions, sunrooms and more. All one has to do to be considered for the contest is to enter to win – it’s that simple since the contest is a drawing and is totally based upon luck. Three fortunate winners will be chosen by random on three different dates – April 30^th, August 31^st and December 31st of 2012, and each will win $12,000 worth of products and services to make your house the scene supreme in 2012. The contest is just one way Bee Window says “thank you” to our loyal customers and it’s also a great way to keep people interested in what we’re doing in the world of home improvement all year long.

So what are you waiting for? Meet our past winners and see what they have to say about their winnings from Bee Window! Read the rules and learn all the details for Bee’s three give-a-ways in 2012. And then enter to win your share of the prizes and fun, brought to you by the friendly (and generous) folks at Bee Window of Indiana and the Home Improvement Giveaway 2012.

One Monster that’s for Every Season – Christmas & Chanukah, Not Just Halloween

December 28, 2011

At Bee Window we love to talk about our favorite monster, and not just at Halloween but at every holiday, including Christmas and Chanukah. We’re talking of course about the famous monster known as GutterMonster – a good monster who helps protect homes and properties throughout Indiana and is spreading across the greater Midwest as well.

GutterMonster is an amazing gutter protection system that works in conjunction with your existing gutters and down spouts to prevent gutter clogs and overflows that can lead to ice dams, roof damage, stained siding, ruined landscaping and even basement flooding. The system fits onto your existing gutter system so there’s no need to replace the actual gutters, and the system fits underneath roofing shingles to prevent water and debris from accumulating there to damage the roof or the gutter system itself. GutterMonster even handles heavy snow at about 6 inches of precipitation per hour.

So whether you’re celebrating monstrous Halloween, the coming of the Prince of Peace, or entertaining Chanukah Harry with dreidels and candy, Bee Window has a gutter protection system perfect for any time of year. And we install Gutter Monster too! Contact Bee Window today to learn more about gutter protection through the fabulous GutterMonster system.

Let Your Fingers…and Your Imagination Do the Walking – with the Design Showcase Application from Bee Window!

December 21, 2011

We see it all the time with our customers – a difficulty visualizing how new doors, shutters, roof shingles, vinyl siding or trim will look on their home. And we can understand their plight – it’s not always easy to imagine what these changes and color combinations will do for a home until those actual colors and selections have been installed…and sometimes then there’s a bit of regret. “Oh, we thought those shutters would match the door a little better.” “Good heavens, that shingle color looks dreadful with our vinyl siding.” “Yes, see, I knew that trim would go well with our paint color!” At Bee Window, we’re arrived at a solution.

The Design Showcase application is an online tool designed to help consumers visualize how certain colors and exterior remodeling elements will come together and work together synergistically. Using this tool, online visitors to the Bee Window website can get a quick feel about how trims, shutters, doors, shingle colors…even vinyl siding color options can combine to enhance and beautify a home that is going to be undergoing an exterior remodeling project. Consider it a bit of guesswork removed. Or consider it a way to view the future before it happens. But definitely consider it another helpful service offered to you from the friendly folks at Faerber’s Bee Window of Indiana!