Healthy Home Energy Audits

Road Map to a Healthy, Comfortable Home!

Chances are, you're spending much more on utility bills than you need to be. A Healthy Home Energy Audit gives you the opportunity to fix that. We use state-of-the-art equipment including Blower Doors, Infrared Cameras, Combustion Analyzers and Duct Blowers. Our auditors perform diagnostics that can lead to solutions to problems such as hot or cold rooms, mold/mildew or moisture, unsafe levels of carbon monoxide produced by mechanical equipment or air leakage from your garage, drafts, ventilation and other problems. We provide you with a detailed report of our findings and recommendations for a work scope that can help solve problems while substantially lowering your utility bills and helping dramatically reduce your carbon footprint. (We accurately cost out these improvements using real numbers that we stand behind.)  Click for a list of what is included in a Healthy Home Energy Audit.

Thermal Imaging Diagnostics

A trained and certified thermographer will analyze heat losses, building air leaks, insulation deficiencies, even moisture leaks. Having your home evaluated with an infrared scanner sheds valuable light on the effectiveness of your home's thermal envelope. An infrared scanner reveals hidden air leaks and areas where insulation isn't performing, and can also yield some interesting surprises -- such as where an uninsulated hot water pipe or recessed lights may be contributing to an ice dam, for an example. It's a valuable part of any good home energy audit, and a step that we guarantee to take with thoroughness and precision (although our experience tells us that it can also be a fun part of the energy audit for homeowners).

Blower Door Testing

Blower door testing is a way to test the "leakiness" of your home. By depressurizing your home and measuring the rate at which air infiltrates through imperfections in the building envelope, we're able to assess how much energy (and money) is escaping through air leaks, and how much you're likely to save by fixing those leaks. As part of this process, we will inspect the house with a smoke stick to pinpoint potentially hidden air leaks (making it much easier to address them when the time comes to get to work). We also offer blower door testing as an isolated service to test the effectiveness of improvements that have been made to a home, and to provide homeowners and contractors with a road map to further improve a home's efficiency moving forward.

HERS Home Energy Rating: Qualifying New Homes for Energy Efficiency Programs

The Home Energy Rating System (HERS) was developed with national guidelines from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to provide uniform, reliable and unbiased information about the energy efficiency of a home (especially new homes). Many federal and state tax credit programs, Energy Star certification and Energy Efficient Mortgage programs require this rating system. Please call or email for more information on setting up a HERS rating!