Free Home Audit Tool Helps Save You $$$

Lowe's is offering a free home audit tool that can help you save money on your energy bills.

After taking a short survey regarding your home and the equipment in it, you can select from a variety of measures to help you save energy. The calculator shows the cost of the measures, as well as estimated savings. You can select which ones you are interested in, get more information on them, and even shop online for the materials you will need.

Of course this is an advertising gimmick, but I ran it for my house and the recommendations made sense. I think the savings may be a bit conservative, but that is probably good, so people don't get their hopes up.

The biggest savings measure for my house? Change my incandescents to CFLs.