Kansas City Home Energy Audits Service
Posted by George on Dec 11, 2010 in Energy Audits | Comments Off
Kansas City Home Energy Audit Service (Raytown, Independence, Blue Springs, Lee’s Summit, Raymore, Belton, Gladstone, Missouri (MO) Olathe, Lenexa Shawnee, Overland Park, Leawood, Mission, Kansas (KS).
A home energy audit is a service where the energy efficiency of a house is evaluated by a person using professional equipment (such as blower doors and infra-red cameras), with the aim to suggest the best ways to improve energy efficiency in heating and cooling the house.
An energy audit of a home may involve recording various characteristics of the building envelope including the walls, ceilings, floors, doors, windows, and skylights. For each of these components the area and resistance to heat flow (R-value) is measured or estimated. The leakage rate or infiltration of air through the building envelope is of concern which is strongly affected by window construction and quality of door seals such as weather stripping. The goal of this exercise is to quantify the building’s overall thermal performance. The audit may also assess the efficiency, physical condition, and programming of mechanical systems such as the heating, ventilation, air conditioning equipment, and thermostat.
A home energy audit may include a written report estimating energy use given local climate criteria, thermostat settings, roof overhang, and solar orientation. This could show energy use for a given time period, say a year, and the impact of any suggested improvements per year. The accuracy of energy estimates are greatly improved when the homeowner’s billing history is available showing the quantities of electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, or other energy sources consumed over a one or two-year period.
Some of the greatest effects on energy use are user behavior, climate, and age of the home. An energy audit may therefore include an interview of the homeowners to understand their patterns of use over time. The energy billing history from the local utility company can be calibrated using heating degree day and cooling degree day data obtained from recent, local weather data in combination with the thermal energy model of the building. Advances in computer-based thermal modeling can take into account many variables affecting energy use.
A home energy audit is often used to identify cost effective ways to improve the comfort and efficiency of buildings. In addition, homes may qualify for energy efficiency grants from central government.
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Home Green Home Energy Audits (Kansas City’s Certified Auditor) performshome energy-saving services such as adding home insulation, installing and upgrading furnaces and water heaters, replacing windows and doors, and more.
Your house is made up of many systems that serve your needs – lighting, hot and cold water, comfortable indoor temperatures, healthy air quality, and power for appliances and plenty of other electrical devices. These systems interact, which means that when one system isn’t working like it should, it affects the way other systems work. For example, leaks in your duct system make your heating and cooling systems work harder, wasting energy and costing you money.
KC’s Home Green Home Energy Audits identifies the efficiency of your home’s systems. Let us perform a Home Energy Evaluation, and we’ll help show you where your home energy losses are, and we can even fix many of them at the same time! Contact us today to get started!
About Home Green Home Energy Audits
Home Green Home is a premier certified energy auditor for the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan area (Raytown, Lee’s Summit, Independence, Blue Springs, Belton, Raymore) in both Missouri (MO) and Kansas (KS).
Green Home knows what it takes to professionally make the necessary changes to your home to correct its inefficiencies. We have over 30 years of home building and remodeling experience, along with our certified training in the energy auditing field to draw on. We will provide you with guaranteed prices on many of your improvements. Who better to correct the work than the experts who identified the problems? Home Green Home provides complete insulating services, weatherization, door and window replacement. We partner with verified, dedicated professionals in several fields who will take care of all your heating and air, plumbing or remodeling needs.
Green Home always performs a no cost, second audit after all work is completed, and regardless of who was hired to do the work. This allows us to confirm that the home hasn’t become too tight for good indoor air quality and that all combustion appliances are still performing correctly.
Take advantage of new tax incentives, save 25% to 50% on your utility expenses and help the environment. We can help get you started:
To schedule your Energy Audits Appointment.
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- We will contact you to schedule a free, no obligation building analysis.
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Qualify for up to $1,200 in bill credits from MGE and KCP&L when you conduct a home energy audit using a certified Home Performance with ENERGY STAR auditorand implement at least one of the qualifying improvements recommended by KC’s Certified Energy Auditor – Home Green Home Energy Audits.
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