Everyone wants to get the most for their money these days. Cars with the highest MPG, grocery store loyalty cards, coupon clipping, shopping the sales…But what about your home? Are you getting the most bang for your buck? Find out with a home energy audit. An energy audit measures the resistance to heat flow of your walls, ceilings, doors, floors, windows, and skylights. Heat naturally flows toward cooler temperatures. In the summer heat flows from outside to the air conditioned inside, and in the winter heat flows toward upstairs rooms and ultimately the attic. A higher resistance to heat flow means your home is properly insulated to prevent this from happening, or to greatly reduce it. With proper resistance to heat flow, your HVAC system does not need to work as hard.
Your home energy audit will include a written report estimating energy use based on local climate conditions, thermostat settings, roof overhang, and solar positioning and reveals the energy usage for any given time, as well as suggest improvements. If you have your billing statements handy for this chosen time period, you can improve the accuracy of these estimates as they have the total usage of energy your house consumes. The audit may also include a homeowner interview to see what your personal patterns are and can give you suggestions to better use your HVAC system. It may seem like a large upfront cost, the few hundred dollars for the estimate and then implementing the suggested changes to your home, but you will see a decrease in your heating and air conditioning bills that over time will cover the costs and then some.
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