Archive for the ‘Home Improvement Tips’ Category
December 9, 2011
Winter may be the best time of year to really appreciate and understand the value of attic insulation when it comes to energy conservation and monetary savings on your heating bills. The next time it snows, check out your roof afterwards and watch it for a few days. Then compare your roof to the roofs on the houses around your home. What do you see? You should see a Norman Rockwell scene – thick white snow blanketing your roof like a quilt laid-out by Old Man Winter himself. But if you see the snow rapidly melting off your roof, that’s a sign that your home is losing heat – big time!
You see, on a well-insulated home with good attic insulation, the heat from your furnace does not exit through your roof osmotically. Instead, that heat remains in your attic because excellent attic insulation prevents it from departing through your wooden roof system. Thus, the outside of your roof stays colder and snow does not melt off your roof. If the snow IS melting off your roof – particularly if it’s melting off faster than from the homes around your home, that’s a sign that massive amounts of your heated air is escaping – along with money from your wallet – directly into the outside air.
Bee Window offers AttiCat insulation from Owens Corning - as well as installation services – to keep your house energy-efficient, warm and toasty, and economically heated. What are you waiting for – contact Bee Window today and start saving the green as the white stuff piles up!
November 11, 2011
If you’re like the millions of other home owners who will be hosting Thanksgiving at their homes this year and wondering what can be done quickly to perk up the look and feel of your old kitchen for all your guests, cabinet refacing might be the answer. Quite simply, cabinet refacing is a very affordable and fast remodeling process that replaces old drawer and cabinet fronts with new ones in order to create a completely different look for your kitchen.
Cabinet refacing by Bee has several advantages over ‘traditional’ kitchen remodeling procedures:
- Current cabinets remain where they are, so no plumbing or electrical elements need moved.
- Carpentry is minimal, meaning much less mess and dust to deal with inside the home.
- Gives you the option of wood or rigid thermofoil doors and drawer fronts
- Installation is handled by insured, licensed and bonded workmen
- Typical cabinet refacing can be done professionally in 3 to 5 days – in-time for Thanksgiving or Christmas!
- Provides an affordable and visually effective alternative to full-kitchen remodeling
Don’t put off until next year what you can have done this very November. Cabinet refacing is a great way to update your home’s most important room quickly, beautifully and inexpensively. And yes, Bee Window offers full kitchen remodeling services as well for those of you who are really enthusiastic about your kitchen’s appearance. Trust your home and kitchen to Bee Window of Indiana!
August 31, 2011
In this rather tough economic climate, Bee Window understands that it’s often tough to part with your hard-earned money to invest in something for the long-term value and not just for immediate gain. That said, homes are very valuable pieces of property that tend to escalate and increase in value over time, so the wise home owner should consider making valid improvements to their properties that will result in greater comfort and enjoyment now and higher resale values later. Bee touts this philosophy all the time on our website and in our blog, but we sometimes feel the need to remind our readers of why it’s so. “Rome was not built in a day,” as the old adage goes, and a beautiful home with lots of fine amenities takes time to develop as well.
Fortunately, it’s not just our marketing that speaks this message to our readers. Indeed, a more eloquent reference source is the work we do itself, on the many homes throughout Indiana we have had the pleasure and privilege of improving. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we thought you might like to examine some of the home improvement projects we’ve done across the state via our Before/After Gallery collection of photos. Take a look at the changes we’ve wrought and how excellent these properties appear after Bee products and services have worked their magic. Then, reach out and contact Bee Window yourself to get started on a home remodeling or improvement project that adds years of life to the appearance and enjoyment of your home, and greater resale value down the road as well.
August 24, 2011
No matter if it’s a rainy spring day or a blustery, cold winter day, the Sun will eventually return. The same holds true for a summer thunderstorm day or a melancholy fall day with the smell of burning leaves and football games in the air – the Sun will come out again. Wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy those sunny moments all year round, regardless of the outdoor temperatures and inclement elements? You can, affordably, thanks to Bee Window and our professional sunroom installations.
Face it – there’s something powerfully uplifting about sunshine and the warmth it brings. With sunroom installations by Bee, you and your home can tap into that solar magic and enjoy its benefits all year round. Bee offers 4 expert design schematics for sunroom installations for your home – straight-eave sunrooms, curved-eave sunrooms, cathedral sunrooms and conservatory sunrooms. These four designs can transform your backyard or patio into an amazing extra living and entertaining space for your home, greatly increasing your house’s value and providing a great deal more space for events, overnight guests, dinner parties, romantic nights with your husband or wife, etc. With sunroom designs and installations from Bee, you and your family can appreciate what nature has to offer in every season, literally without leaving the comfort of your home.
Check-out our sunroom designs for yourself and see what you think, then contact Bee to schedule a visit from one of our design consultants to give you the facts about the appropriate sunroom for your style and home size. Your home will thank you later, and so will your family!
August 19, 2011
According to the latest figures, if your home was built before 1978 then there’s a very good chance that lead paint may have been used in its interiors. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has concluded that “lead poisoning is the number one environmental health threat to children in the United States, ages six and younger.” This makes sense, as children that young are still getting to know their world and often do so by taste and ingestion. Consuming lead paint chips, which are often prevalent in a home without the occupants even knowing it in the form of wall paint peelings or fragments, can cause hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and even brain damage if the ingestion continues for long enough spans of time.
Fortunately, there are ways to detect lead paint in the home and remedying the situation does not take much more than repainting the walls with modern paints, or replacing windows, etc. with newer units that don’t contain lead paint to begin with. Bee Window can help our clients in Indiana with this task – we can inspect your home for lead and provide solutions to make your property child-proof and lead-proof, permanently. Learn more about lead exposure and lead poisoning here, then make an appointment with Bee to get started on a lead-free lifestyle for all of your family – particularly your vulnerable little ones!
