Our Services

From energy audits to full-service home performance contracting, we offer a range of services to help you start making your home more comfortable, more affordable, and more environmentally friendly, today.

Our professional energy audits go into great detail. We do a thorough examination of your past utility bills as well as a room-by-room examination of your residence, an interview with you to listen to your concerns and answer your questions, followed by a blower door test and a thermographic or IR camera scan. To ensure the safety of all family members, we evaluate all your gas appliances for efficiency and carbon monoxide. All accessible areas outside the conditioned spaces (attics, basements, crawlspaces, etc.) are inspected for energy losses, ventilation problems, insulation levels and quality of insulation installation.

This information is entered in to our proprietary modeling software where we examine your unique issues and generate an audit report, along with an analysis of each recommended improvement. This report includes approximate costs to make the improvements, estimated savings and the payback period to break even on your investment. We strongly recommend that you have an energy analysis performed on your home before designing or installing any solar or HVAC features. Once the new, smaller heating and cooling requirements are determined, it is then possible to design a solar heating system sized to your new and smaller requirements. Plus, if your home needs energy upgrades, it makes economic sense to perform these upgrades first and then conduct a new energy analysis on the updated building. By reducing the heating and/or cooling requirements of your home first, you can reduce the size of the solar system needed to heat and/or cool your home. This can result in a lower up-front cost to you.

Home Performance Contracting

Home performance contracting includes looking at everything from lighting to insulation, from the boiler in your basement to the air sealing in your attic, to solve everything from moisture problems to energy waste and beyond. A relatively new field grown out of an increased awareness of the need to address the poor performance of our existing homes, the goal of HP contracting is to fix them. We do so by maximizing energy efficiency and building durability, ensuring the healthiest possible indoor air quality, and evaluating the relationships between your home’s various components to ensure that they’re all functioning as they were designed to. The result is a home that is more durable, more comfortable, more energy efficient and better for the environment and future generations—exactly how a home should be.

Home Energy Audits: Great Information for Existing Homes

Chances are, you're spending much more on utility bills than you need to be.  A home energy audit gives you the opportunity to fix that.  Using the latest technology, including a blower door to assess air leakage and infrared thermography, a comprehensive home energy audit will point out leaks in your home's thermal envelope, deficiencies in insulation, and other opportunities to stop heat loss and reduce energy consumption, while improving the comfort and safety of your home. In addition to recommending fixes to reduce energy, we'll also evaluate carbon monoxide safety, mold and other air quality isssues and improvements to temperature and lighting comfort. Our comprehensive audit report will include a prioritized list of potential improvements, and an estimate of the savings our recommended work will likely lead to.

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 and an InfraRed camera 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 roadmap to further improve a home's efficiency moving forward.

Infrared Diagnostics

Having your home evaluated with an InfraRed camera 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).