Improving the insulation barrier between your ceiling and attic will only serve to increase your home's heat retention in the winter. When it's cold outside, the sun heating your attic is not going to increase the heat in your home more than the cold ambient temperature in your attic is going to decrease it. Before you pay to have this work done I'd genuinely consider whether there are other projects that would be much more impactful you could do instead. Definitely get other opinions from contractors first (never just get one quote for any project, prices and recommendations can vary widely) and see if you can get a certified home performance contractor to take a look at your goals
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I felt great about it, our monthly mortgage payment was a little less than we were paying in rent, and a portion of every payment was us building equity in our home rather than 100% going to a landlord. I feel even better now, as rents and home prices have skyrocketed where I live, and our monthly payment has only gone up about $300 over 9 years where renters are facing much steeper increases.
It all boils down to your monthly payment, and whether that price is right for you. You need a solid estimate on what your monthly payment will be, to include principal, interest, and escrow to cover taxes and insurance, and see how that amount feels to you moving forward, because it will stick with you.
What reason does your handyman give for needing a second fan in your attic? What's going to be different for your house? I'm assuming your attic is a typical uninsulated attic in the US. I live in Texas, and as far as the eye can see there are houses with uninsulated, passively-ventilated attics. Almost no one has powered attic ventilation. I have a thick layer of blown-in insulation up there, and with the volume of air your handyman wants to move, I'd be concerned the insulation would move with it.
In an ideal world, all our attics would be inside the insulated envelope of our homes, but our building standards are not there. So where you can affect energy efficiency is in improving the impermeability of your insulation as it currently exists. If you're going for energy efficiency, slightly lowering the ambient temperature of your attic in the summer heat is just not an effective solution. Spend that money instead on fully sealing all the holes around joints and fixtures that are currently leaking air between your living space ceiling and your attic, and improving the R value of your attic insulation.
I don't know if what I'm talking about applies to your house, but if so, check out this Matt Risinger video for a lot more detail.
You sound really angry. Have you thought about finding a therapist?
Lmao I didn't call this guy pseudoscientific, I called these YouTube videos pseudoscientific.
Andrew Huberman Has Supplements on the Brain
Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control
So, Should You Trust Andrew Huberman?
Just a few of many legitimate criticisms of his podcast work
Wow, what a post history
"You don't need a psychotherapist, have these pseudoscientific YouTube videos instead!" lmao
This is a strawman like I've never seen. Who TF is cheering for the DEA outside of your imagination
Bro, they're talking about the blatantly terrible CG image in the article. Who are you talking to
Yeah these studies don't in any way substantiate the conclusion, "You can thank animal protein/dairy for this." That's a gross misunderstanding of the actual conclusions drawn in each of them. That Healthline article also draws/implies false conclusions from the studies it cites.
I'm citing zero evidence here, but what has changed over time (meat and dairy have been consumed and in some cases even heavily relied upon for tens of thousands of years) is exposure to the plastics and other petroleum derivatives that now pervade our environments.
Terror attacks are pretty rare in the US, though they're also pretty rare in France and the UK.
No one said that, you've drawn a conclusion not based on the actual words written here.