How Air Sealing Improves your Heating In Winter and Cooling in Summer After the brutal cold of last winter’s polar vortex, many Louisianans made the choice to invest in more energy efficient furnaces. If you’re one of those homeowners who’s cranking up the heat this cold season, you may be wondering why your home still […]
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Preventing Moisture Damage We’ve sung the praises of closed cell spray foam before here, here, and here, but if you still need evidence that spray foam can benefit your home’s crawl space, we’ve got something remarkable to show you. First, though, a quick reminder of the benefits of insulating your crawl space with closed cell
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RESNET Home Energy Audit Homeowners, builders, and real estate professionals focus more on energy efficiency every year, and for good reason. The cost of utilities continues to rise, creating a financial burden for many middle income families. Energy conscious citizens have become more concerned with their impact on the nation’s carbon footprint. Even homeowners intent
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Congratulations are in order once again for our own Corey Yates who has successfully demonstrated mastery of the skills and knowledge required to install spray foam roofing. Corey completed the SPFA Roofing Installer and Roofing Master exams, gaining the coveted Spray Foam Roofing Certification. Though the SPFA, or Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance, may be an
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Qualified Certified Spray Foam Installers Spray foam installation is a delicate process that requires training and knowledge, but many Louisiana contractors hired to do the job don’t have the necessary qualifications. If something goes wrong in the process or after, home and business owners find themselves without recourse if they’ve hired installers who are not properly
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Spray Foam Insulation Certification Congratulations once more to Corey Yates, our fearless leader and the owner of Sunlight Contractors. He’s done it again! Corey has recently received the highest certification available to a spray foam installer: the SPFA Master Installer Spray Foam Insulation certification. The SPFA, or Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance, has developed the only
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It’s taking time for recycling to catch on in the Big Easy. But for environmentally savvy New Orleanians, building your home can be one means of reducing your carbon footprint using recycling. Blown-in cellulose insulation is composed of 80% post-consumer recycled newsprint, which means that investing in blown-in insulation not only helps you reduce energy
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Do you have the creeping, sweaty sensation that every summer gets hotter than the last here in southern Louisiana? You’re not alone, and you’re not imagining things. Research has shown that the hottest states in the US have gotten hotter every year since 1970, warming more than 1°F per decade. While the trend may seem
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If you’re like many New Orleanians, your air conditioner is perhaps the most valued and hardest working appliance in your home. It makes those scorching summer days tolerable by cooling and dehumidifying the air. Choosing an air conditioner, then, is a decision that shouldn’t be made lightly. It’s a common misconception that a bigger AC
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While it’s not uncommon to find materials like newspapers, corncobs, or even horsehair serving as insulation in historic homes, more often than not in New Orleans, there’s simply no insulation at all. Compared with other areas of the country, southern Louisiana wouldn’t have had the dire need to trap heat during the winter, and our
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Air Sealing Historic Homes If you’ve recently had a home energy audit performed on your historic New Orleans home, you’ve probably discovered that the structure has dozens if not hundreds of hidden air leaks. What’s the story behind all these cracks and crevices? Where do air leaks come from? Air leaks are created during the
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Can I have an Energy Efficient Historic Home? Enough can’t be said about New Orleans historic architecture. It is luring and fun to purchase one of these icons to the past. But anyone who owns a historic home will tell you that they are not energy efficient. Before we tackle that subject, lets look at the
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Sunlight Contractors offer commercial services that save money, energy, and lives No other energy solutions provider can offer the savings and services that Sunlight Contractor does. From industrial ignition barriers to spray foam roofing, we’ve got the products that meet all of your commercial needs. While we no longer provide solar panel installation, it was
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Sunlight Contractors of New Orleans offer spray foam and duct insulation services that save money and energy No other energy solutions provider can offer the savings and services that Sunlight Contractor of New Orleans, Louisiana does. From spray foam insulation to duct insulation services, we’ve got the products that meet all of your home’s needs. Call
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Walking into a New Orleans attic in summer is like walking on the sun. Have you ever wondered why attics get so unbearably hot? It has to do with radiant energy. Radiant energy is what makes surfaces hot, like the slick, vinyl of a car seat on a scorching afternoon. Or steaming roadways during Fourth
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Upgrade Your Insulation & Save “I don’t think I’ve ever had my thermostat set to 76 and been cool in my house,” says Robin Reynolds, a happy Sunlight Contractors customer. “It used to be set on 70-71, and my bedroom still wasn’t cool. All the rooms are the same temperature now!” Like Robin, you can
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Participate in Energy Efficiency Scientific observations increasingly support the idea that our climate is changing. A portion of that change can be attributed to emissions of heat-trapping gases released by human activity, including the burning of coal, oil, and gas. The National Climate Assessment, the latest White House report on climate change, provides a backdrop
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As Americans become wiser, we adopt more energy efficient practices. As we become richer, we buy more stuff. A lot of that stuff comes in the form of energy-sucking gadgetry: flat screen tvs, iPhones and iPads, cell phones and xBoxes. So while our enlightened energy practices our lowering the cost of energy, our consumer habits
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Lower your Imprint with Energy Efficiency “Now we are at the point where there is so much information, so much evidence, that we can no longer plead ignorance.” This statement issued by secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization Michel Jarraud draws attention to the importance of the report recently released to the world’s major
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Before you drop your taxes in the mail this April, be sure that you get credit for all the work you did to make your home more energy efficient. The Residential Energy Efficiency Tax Credit, which first expired at the end of 2011, was renewed under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, but it
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Curious about what might unify Republicans and Democrats? Would it surprise you to know that it’s something we’ve been excited about here at Sunlight Contractors for years? Senators Sheehan and Portman are championing The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014 (ESICA), a bill four years in the making and now widely supported across
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For Immediate Release Sunlight Contractors Share Tips for Protecting Homes and Saving Energy This Winter Record cold temperatures and energy leaks pose risk to homes New Orleans LA, January 5, 2014 – The continued tough economic climate and recent below-average temperatures have homeowners looking to reduce energy costs and protect their real estate investment this
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