https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/5f9c6840-be04-4f6b-ac47-91273d72e35d This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook with tips for saving energy. (See below for a shopping list.) SUBSCRIBE to This Old House: http://bit.ly/SubscribeThisOldHouse Up in the loft, Roger offers some of his tips for making a home more energy efficient, including the use of deciduous trees to shade a house in the summer and allow sunlight to warm the house in the winter. He also recommends pergolas and awnings to provide shade in the summer, and closing shades on windows to reduce air-conditioning costs. Roger also suggests mounting window air-conditioners on the shadiest part of the house to help them run more efficiently and planting trees or shrubs to shade outdoor air-conditioning units. To reduce heating costs in the winter, Roger recommends installing a tight-fitting damper on a fireplace chimney to prevent hot air from escaping up the chimney when it's not being used. Shopping List for How to Manage Heat Gain and Loss Seasonally: chimney-mounted damper, used to seal in warm room air, shrubs, used to shield central air-conditioning unit from sun, The chimney damper that Roger showed was supplied by Black Magic Chimney & Fireplace [http://blackmagicchimney.com/] Many other energy saving tips can be found at: www.energy.gov [https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/energy-saver] About Ask This Old House TV: Homeowners have a virtual truckload of questions for us on smaller projects, and we're ready to answer. Ask This Old House solves the steady stream of home improvement problems faced by our viewers—and we make house calls! Ask This Old House features some familiar faces from This Old House, including Kevin O'Connor, general contractor Tom Silva, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, and landscape contractor Roger Cook. Looking for more step by step guidance on how to complete projects around the house? Join This Old House INSIDER to stream over 1,000 episodes commercial-free: https://bit.ly/2GPiYbH Plus, download our FREE app for full-episode streaming to your connected TV, phone or tablet: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/pages/streaming-app Follow This Old House and Ask This Old House: Facebook: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseFB Twitter: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseTwitter http://bit.ly/AskTOHTwitter Pinterest: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHousePinterest Instagram: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseIG http://bit.ly/AskTOHIG For more on This Old House and Ask This Old House, visit us at: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseWebsite How to Manage Heat Gain and Loss Seasonally | This Old House https://www.youtube.com/user/thisoldhouse/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:57:50 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/5f9c6840-be04-4f6b-ac47-91273d72e35d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.