Energy-efficiency program offer rebates
ENERGY Homeowners can get rebates through city and state programs
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Brian and Kelley Johnson could tell their new home wasn’t airtight.
Drafts brought in the chill that permeates the Sunset neighborhood, deep within San Francisco’s fog belt. The furnace didn’t seem to help much.
“I didn’t like the fact that we were heating the neighborhood,” said Brian Johnson, 45.
The house wasn’t just uncomfortable. It was wasting energy. So when the couple heard that programs from the city and the state offer rebates worth as much as $7,000 to make homes more energy-efficient, they signed up.
Contractors vetted by the city insulated the walls and ceilings, put flashing around doors to stop the drafts, rebuilt the system that returns air to the furnace and fixed the thermostat, which turned out to be broken. They wrapped up the work in May – and the Johnsons haven’t needed the furnace yet. The insulation keeps the house cozy
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