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Home Energy Audit

It seems like you can hardly keep your energy bills from going through the roof these days. If you are having a lot of trouble determining what exactly you need to do first to make your home greener and more energy-efficient, then maybe you should think about a home energy audit. A Home Energy audit will give you an assessment of how much energy your home is utilizing. Then there will be a plan that is drawn up so youll know what to do to decrease these cost. Having this list is vital and usually shows exact percentages of utilities waste. A professional can help you to get started with this assessment. Call us at the Home Center of West Michigan and we will put you in touch with only pre-screened contractors.
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Home Energy Audit

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Professionally Testing Your Home
A home energy audit helps you to have the game plan that you need to succeed with your energy savings and greening efforts. When the auditor that comes to your home, they will perform a series of test. They will go room-by-room and look everywhere around the interior and exterior space you live in. Most notably, they will do a thermo scan to detect any drafts that might be coming from walls, or hidden cracks. There will also be detection devices used to test for moisture problems. Other machines are used to test how airtight your home is overall. Another round of test will ensure that your appliances and lighting are optimal and whether or not they should be changed. They will also check blown-in and other kinds of insulation in various parts of your home. There are extremely thorough audits and more limited ones depending on how in-depth you want to be. In the end, it is certainly worth the investment. At the Home Center of West Michigan, we excel in referring these kinds of specialists. Just give us a call and we will help you to get this process started.
Problems with Self Auditing and Other Free Services
Often, when you get something for free, its not exactly what you wanted to be. Many energy companies claimed that they will help you by doing a free energy audit. However, you soon learned that you have to work with their schedule and you are just too busy. You also may find that the service is incomplete. You may even be bitter with poor past experiences and think to yourself that the term free service cancels itself out because service is never free. You want to hire professional that will not only work with your schedule, but give you as much or as little as you need.
We may also want to try a self audit by checking for drafts everywhere in the house. However, you can save yourself the time and the effort by hiring a professional who has special equipment they can immediately identify even the tiniest of cracks. Self auditing also limits the number of options that you can test. If you stop want full service and a full commitment to going green, give us a call and we will put you in touch with an energy efficiency home auditor they can help you get moving in the right direction.
 

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