First and foremost, you may wonder what exactly is a Home Energy Audit?. Most homeowners in the United States face escalating fuel and energy costs during summer and winter season, discover that it's hard to know where to begin when you're faced with the intimidating task of determining where exactly your heat from the furnace and cool air from air conditioning or central air unit are going! Is it out through your windows and doors? Perhaps its even through the roof. It could very well be your basement that is drafty and robbing your home of its heat in the winter? Last but least perhaps it your furnace that is no longer energy efficient?
A Home Energy Audit can take the guess-work out of isolating the culprit. An energy auditor has been trained to perform tests on your home in order to determine exactly how you are losing these precious resources. Basically, an energy audit consists of a "blower-door" test in which all windows, doors and any other openings (i.e. fireplace flues, etc…) are sealed shut, except for the front door. Whoever conducts the test places a large fan in the front door opening and literally creates a negative air-pressure environment inside of your home by sucking as much air as possible out of your house. By doing this, he or she can then use smoke-sticks, incense sticks or infra-red photography to determine where the leaks in your home are most evident. Once this is ascertained, you'll have a checklist of items which are in need of attention.
A licensed, professional contractor can then provide the products and professional installation required to solve all of the problems identified by your energy audit. Check to ensure that the company performing the audit has experience installing replacement windows, doors and insulation. The Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org) is a good source for obtaining an independent opinion.
We hope that you will choose American Home Concepts, Inc for all of your energy-saving needs.
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