DOE/CE-0180
January 2008

Department of Energy
Assistant Secretary
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

ZIP-Code Results

Here is what we know about your house. You live in Anderson, IN and your zip code starts with 460.Your existing house has no ducts located in unheated spaces. Your alternative investment rate of return is 3.4%. The following table shows what we know about your heating and cooling systems:
  Heating Cooling
System Heat Pump Heat Pump
Efficiency Very High (HSPF = 10.0) Very High (SEER = 18.0)
Cost 8.69 cents/kWh8.69 cents/kWh

If you want more information about how to buy or install insulation, please read the Insulation Fact Sheet. To view the cost values used in this calculation, please see the Insulation Cost Table. Here are our insulation level recommendations for your home.

Wood-Framed Building
Insulation Location R-Add* R-Value* Notes
Attic 0.0 30.0
-
Add insulative sheathing to R11 wall 0.0 11.0
-

Basements and Foundations
Insulation Location R-Add* R-Value* Notes
Crawl space wall 13.0 28.0 Crawl space walls are only insulated if the crawl space is unvented and the floor above the crawl space is uninsulated.

* R-Values have units of F-ft2-h/Btu. R-Add is the R-Value of the insulation to be added. R-Value is the sum of the R-Value of the existing insulation and the R-Value of the insulation to be added.

Building Envelope Research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For more information, contact the facility manager for Building Envelope Research:

Andre O. Desjarlais
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P. O. Box 2008, MS 6070
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6070
E-mail desjarlaisa@ornl.gov
Revised: February 12, 2008