I live in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, where the winters are very cold. My house is an older home with double-hung single pane windows. Will window replacement with double or triple pane windows save me money on my heating bill, and how much? How long will it take to recover my investment?
Esther B. ~ Minneapolis, Minnesota
You will save significant money with a window upgrade. Ten to twenty-five percent of your heating bill can be allotted to heat loss due to windows. An upgrade from your old single pane windows to new low U-factor windows, (the lower the U-factor the better the insulation in the window), could save you $75-$375 annually.
Recovering the investment of your new windows could take a while. If you spend $9,000 on your new windows, and realize a $300 /year savings on your energy bill, than you are looking at a potential 30-year payback. There are also some tax credits available for installing new windows but the real value here is in increasing your property value, and making your home more comfortable to live in.
There is one interesting phenomenon I would like to mention here, and that is many times a home’s annual energy cost goes up when installing new windows due to the perception that these new windows will save energy even when the the heat or A/C is dramatically increased from previous years. The best way to see these energy savings is keep your home at the same temperature prior to the installation of the new windows.
new window wont save you much at all air is a insolater the old stile storm are a bout 1inch from storm to window new windows are about 1/4 inch thick the uv is for light reflection will not help with heat savings if your old storm are bad replace them for 25 to 35 dollor apeace.youle never recover your costin a new window. but if you want to spend a forchin to open your window eazaly by new windows theres componys out there husoling up all the window sales and subbing them out to contractors hoo dont spend money on addvertising. thay are husolers there lagidament you wouldent call them conartusts witch most people are trying to spot but cant becouse thay have books full of referunces.and nice pitures takon from a distunce and set up for onll the bist shot dont trust a good piture it tells a thousond lies. thy always say youle save on your heat but its never proved the sales is finle maybe now won says enthing bacouse they wont to beleave theyre lie i saved a penny on heat and spent $6000 on new windowsi got a $300 tax brake saved 2 cents on heat and only spent $3640 on new windows if anuff people tell the same lie thay all can sell windows a good window man can put a window in inabout 1/2 hr that good money for the sub and rely good for the sails husler.
if a house is werth $60000 and has new siding instald and new windows instaled its stills warth $60000 if a house is warth $60000 and is painted with old window its still worth $60000 the only differuce is the $20000 you put in the siding and windows you got cond a gin. these siding and window sales people have a saying theres a sucker born every minite.
Mike, you are an idiot, learn how to spell…