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With home energy costs rising at an all time record pace, knowing where your energy dollars are being spent is more important than ever.
What is a Home Performance Audit?
As the name suggests, it's an an evaluation of how a home performs from an energy efficiency, air quality and environmental safety standpoint.
Performance Plus Homes specializes in consulting and testing services that take a comprehensive look at the make-up of a home in an effort to identify ways to improve it's comfort, safety, and energy efficiency. With this audit, we can:
- Document building structural elements (envelope, mechanical, insulation)
- Evaluate energy usage using 12 mos. of utility bill information (if available)
- Conduct infiltration test using blower door
- Conduct back draft test on furnace, water heater and other combustion appliances
- Make prescriptive retrofit recommendations based on data gathered and computer modeling of the home’s systems identifying potential cost savings
What does it mean to test the infiltration rate of the home envelope? This can be interpreted as a way to find out where air may be leaking. With a computer and a little exploration, we can identify the location of those air leaks. We also provide documentation and make recommendations as to how to fix those leaks. Many times it can be as simple as adding insulation and caulking around doors and windows.
We can also perform Infra-red Thermal Scans. This test can scan an existing building looking for areas of energy loss. It requires the use of the blower door and an Infra-red camera. We can actually see areas of heat loss on the camera.
Performance Plus Homes is an independent company that can give you an unbiased assessment of improvements and equipment that can improve your testing results. We can also partner with EnergyStar certified contractors to make repairs and upgrades like:
- Partner with Home Performance Network contractors to complete recommended home upgrades based on audit results
- Seal ductwork
- Upgrade Heating & Cooling System (if applicable)
- Improve Indoor Air Quality
When repairs are completed a new test can be performed to measure how efficient the house has become.
Call us today at 913-851-0732 and start saving energy and $$$.