Should I Buy This Home - Heating Issues
By Raynor James, Fri Dec 9th
When considering whether you should buy a home, heating issuesare something you should take a close look at. This isparticularly true with rising energy costs.
Heating Issues
As you inspect potential homes, heating issues should beforemost in your mind. While obvious issues will be apparent,there are less obvious things that need to be considered.
1. Layout - The layout of a home can have a major impact on bothheating issues and energy
bills. While high ceilings arebeautiful architectural aspects, they can be a huge heatingissue. Heat rises, which means you are going to need more of itto warm a home with high ceilings. Always remember that highceilings equate to high energy bills.
A second layout issue concerns the number of stories in theresidence. While a tri-level home or townhouse may seementicing, how are you going to heat the lower floors? Tri-levelhomes often have a problem with something I call the zoneeffect. The rooms on the bottom of the tri-level are alwayscool, while the top floor may be close to a sauna. Unless youhave a very sophisticated heating system, tri-level residencesare going to drive your heating bill through the roof.
2. Control Areas - One way to reduce the heating requirementsfor high ceiling and tri-level homes is a controllable heatingsystem. Many modern heating systems allow you to isolateparticular sections of the home you wish to heat. These can be agodsend for larger homes where certain rooms are not used often.
3. Vents - A more mundane, but important issue, are ventlocations. In some homes, the vent layout appears to have beenundertaken by a drunken sailor. If you find vents located underwindows, you can expect the heating bills to be outrageous. Alsolook for very large rooms with one or no vents as these roomswill take a long time to heat up.
With new homes, one can expect to find heating issues addressedcompetently. With older homes, you may need to consider how theheating issue is going to sap your cash flow during the wintermonths.
About the author:Raynor James is with the FSBO site - http://www.fsboamerica.org- FSBO homes For Sale By Owner. Visit our home buying page -http://www.fsboamerica.org/buyer.cfm - to view and buy homes,houses, condos, land and real estate.
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