Carpeting Cuts Fuel Costs
Kansas State University did a fuel consumption comparison with two buildings and determined that the carpeted building saved 13.4% on heating costs. The advisory on ways to conserve fuel and energy said to put carpet on hard floors, weather strip windows, insulate attics, close off unused rooms and even to put carpet in finished attics, basements and the crawl space under a home. According to Kansas State University, the insulating qualities of carpet help in the summer time, too, when the building is being cooled.
Does this sound like something recently published because of high fuel and home heating costs? No! These excerpts were taken from a column called "Your money's worth" which was published in hundreds of newspapers across the land. It was written over thirty years ago, by Sylvia Porter, February 14, 1976.
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