Are you worried about high energy costs, indoor air quality, or home comfort issues? You need a home energy assessment! An energy assessment is the first step toward improving your home’s energy efficiency and creating a healthier, more comfortable living environment.
What Is an Energy Audit?
An energy audit or energy assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of your home’s performance, which impacts energy efficiency, health, comfort, and safety. It measures air leakage and energy loss, uncovers inefficiencies and safety issues, and helps you determine which problem areas you should prioritize when making home improvements.
The Total Home Performance Energy Audit Experience
Total Home Performance offers comprehensive, whole-home energy efficiency assessments in the Maryland and Delaware areas. We take a holistic approach to home performance that considers every aspect of your home, including you and your family.
Rather than just looking at your HVAC or insulation in isolation, our residential energy audits use advanced diagnostics to find the root cause of comfort and efficiency issues. Our process includes:
- Homeowner Interview: We start by listening to your experiences with hot/cold spots, high bills, or indoor air quality concerns.
- Interior Examination: A room-by-room walkthrough to identify visible signs of energy loss or safety issues.
- Attic and Insulation Evaluation: Checking for proper R-values and hidden areas where heat escapes.
- Basement and/or Crawl Space Evaluation: Identifying moisture issues, wood rot and mold, or air infiltration at the foundation.
- Blower Door Test: This critical diagnostic depressurizes your home to reveal exactly how much air is leaking out and where those leaks are hiding.
- Thermal Imaging: Using infrared technology, we can “see” what is behind the surface of your walls to find missing insulation and air leaks that the naked eye can’t detect.
- New Construction Testing: We provide specialized verification for new builds to ensure they meet modern performance and code standards from day one.
- Home Performance with Energy Star Certification: We help homeowners and builders meet rigorous EPA criteria for high-performance, energy-efficient living.
- Detailed Report of Our Findings: A comprehensive breakdown of your home’s current performance levels.
- Prioritized List of Recommendations: We tell you what to fix first to get the best return on your investment.
- Review of Rebates and Incentives: We ensure you maximize the local utility and any state or federal tax credits you qualify for.
Why Would You Need An Energy Audit?
Benefits of a Home Energy Audit
The benefits of a home performance evaluation speak for themselves.
- Improving Comfort - By addressing issues identified during an assessment, you can improve the overall comfort of your home by eliminating temperature inconsistencies, reducing drafts, and more.
- Reducing Energy Bills - Implementing the recommended improvements from an energy assessment will improve energy efficiency and can significantly reduce your energy bills.
- Improving Indoor Air Quality - Energy assessments identify issues that may affect your home's indoor air quality, such as poor ventilation, moisture and mold concerns, or pollutants. Addressing these issues will lead to a healthier indoor environment.
- Reducing Environmental Impact - Improving your home's energy efficiency helps reduce your carbon footprint.
Signs You Need an Energy Audit ASAP
The problems caused by poor home performance can have serious consequences for your home and your family. If you’ve noticed any of the following issues in your home, you should schedule an energy assessment immediately.
- Comfort issues like uneven temperatures, cold drafts, cold floors, or a hot second floor
- Signs of moisture, condensation, or mold growth
- Indoor air quality concerns like excessive dust or allergy symptoms that get worse at home
- Inexplicably high energy bills
- HVAC and water heating equipment that needs frequent repairs
What To Do After an Energy Audit
After your home energy audit, Total Home Performance will provide a complete audit report with pictures and recommended energy-saving strategies. These strategies typically include:
