Improving your home’s efficiency

The advent of new equipment lets us check benchmarks for energy efficiency, cost effectiveness, and comfort in your home. Like a forensic scientist we gather evidence about your home, and determine the areas for improvement that make the most sense.

What are these tools and how do we use them.

• Infrared thermography to check the thermal envelope of your house for areas of improvement to the insulation, we can uncover problems that are not apparent with a visual inspection.
• Blower Door analysis allows us detect the most effective areas for air sealing your home.
• Duct Blaster shows us where the leakage is in your ducts.
• Low flow balometer is a devise that allows us to measure delivered air to each room in your house, and determine the efficiency of your furnace as it is actually installed.
• Refrigerant Manifold Gauges allow us to check the refrigerant charge of your air conditioner. When the charge is even slightly off it will impact your system efficiency.
• Moisture management tools include a digital psychrometer and data loggers to track temperature and relative humidity in your home. Moisture management is a critical component of energy efficiency retrofits.
• Glazing tester allows us to check for the presence of low e coatings on your windows. Often even brand new windows come missing one or more of the low e coatings that you have paid for.
• Monoxer allows us to determine if your gas or propane appliances are venting deadly gases such as carbon monoxide into your home. A home should never be sealed or insulated without taking this step.
• Plug load analyzer allows us to test individual appliances for power consumption.
• Data logger track temperature and relative humidity over time.
• Manual J computer analysis of your room by room heating and cooling load requirements.

Building scientist tell us the real deal when it comes to making energy efficient homes. We use concepts and practices that were developed in response to studies by some of the nations most venerable research institutions including Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore, Berkeley Labs, and UC Davis Energy group among others.

We stay abreast of the latest developments in home performance via networking, classes, trade journals, and conferences to put the most up to date knowledge to work for you.

We lay out a plan for your home. When we make recommendations that you can confident about implementing. Our decisions are not influenced by a need sell specific products.

We ensure that your home energy retrofit works. Using the same tools that we used to test your house, we retest to ensure that work that you have completed meets the performance standards that we specify.