The Home Energy Manual — Where the Money Goes and the Order to Fix It

Most of what your house spends energy on is heat, cold and hot water — and almost nobody has ever split their bill to find out how much. This book does that first, then fixes it in the order that works: seal, store, then make.

Inside: how to read your own bill and separate it into six numbers, the payback ranking that decides what to do first, finding air leaks with a stick of incense, what each insulation material actually returns per dollar, the arithmetic that shows a $60 water tote holds twice the energy of a $10,000 battery wall, storing heat and cold at home, the four hot-water fixes that pay back in under a year, cooling with shade and night air, and how to size a heat pump after the house is fixed instead of before.