I heard from my neighbor that you could get an energy tax credit from putting in new vinyl windows. I was not sure how that would work so I called my accountant and she explained everything to me over the phone. I was very excited to hear that since we had just had an estimate done for new vinyl windows but had not made a decision if we were going to do it or not.

When my husband came home from work that day, I explained the energy tax credit to him and we decided to take out a home equity loan to put in our vinyl windows. Our house was built a long time ago and the windows were so old that we covered them with plastic every winter and knew that it would help with our energy costs down the road. We scheduled the installation to be about a month after we had originally had the estimate done. I could not believe how quickly they put in the vinyl windows.

They were so professional and cleaned up all the mess that taking out the old wooden windows had made. We also put new shutters on the house when they finished the new vinyl windows. The neighbor who told me about the energy tax credit came over and commented about how awesome the house looked and I of course thanked her for telling us about the credit that made us make the final decision to have the vinyl windows installed.