Buying a home is a big investment. Home Performance with ENERGY STAR helps you care for that investment. A home energy audit is often the first step in making your home more efficient. An audit can help you assess how much energy your home uses and evaluate what measures you can take to improve efficiency. But remember, audits alone don't save energy. You need to implement the recommended improvements.Energy efficiency improvements save money and increase the comfort,safety and durability of your home. For more videos on Home Performance check out Focus on Energy video channel on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/wifocusonenergy#p/u/2/Tj4h13vgQk0
Step one is to schedule an in-home evaluation. Our expert consultants will conduct a thorough inspection of all the systems in your home and identify problems such as air leaks and drafts, moisture, cold spots and more. You'll receive a written report of the findings and a list of recommended solutions.
Once all work is completed, we'll follow up with a post-performance evaluation and inspection to ensure the improvements are effective. Cash-Back Rewards are available for many types of work, including insulation and air sealing. Your consultant will complete all required paperwork to make sure you receive any applicable Cash-Back Rewards for the work you've done. Call 414-364-5422 to learn how you can add to your home's: - Comfort, with appropriate levels of insulation and air sealing that eliminate drafts and give you more control over indoor air quality and temperature
- Safety, by identifying and eliminating potentially dangerous carbon monoxide levels due to inadequate venting of your heating system and water heater
- Durability, by preventing warm, moist air from inside the home, as well as rain and external moisture, from entering walls and attic spaces and causing structural damage
- Energy efficiency, by reducing monthly space heating and cooling costs
Plus, when you use the services of Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, you get the added benefit of knowing you're helping preserve Wisconsin's environment. Less energy used means fewer environmental effects on our air, water and land.
  
The Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program is available to customers in participating utility areas throughout the State of Wisconsin. The inspections include full diagnostic testing and thorough visual inspections of the home. Among the concerns we generally address in this program are high bills, comfort problems, ice dams, Carbon Monoxide investigations, moisture/condensation issues, or simply general energy efficiency and performance evaluations in the home.
Scope of Service:
1. Blower door test - to determine just how leaky the house may be, and to locate air leakage locations throughout the home. This test simulates a 20 mph wind from all directions. How tight is your home? Air sealing measures often can solve a wide range of problems in addition to saving on energy costs. 
2. Infrared Scanning
 Using a radiometric infrared camera, each property will be scanned for temperature changes that can indicate problems "trapped" in the walls, ceilings or floors such as: - Water Damage
- Missing Insulation
- Hot Spots in Electrical Wiring
- Framing Defects
- Air Leaks in Ductwork
- Drafts Around Doors and Windows
3. Combustion Safety Testing – To make sure your atmospherically vented gas appliances are expelling combustion by-products properly to the outside of the home, and to ensure reasonable levels of carbon monoxide. Back-drafting appliances can be a significant source of water vapor in a home.
4. HVAC Airflow Testing – We may want to measure supply and return airflows from the furnace (if this is how your home is heated) to ensure that the system is reasonably balanced, where comfort is an issue. Balancing of airflows can often improve comfort.
5. Ventilation system testing – In an older home, this may simply mean testing of the bath fans to make sure they are working properly. In newer homes or homes with moisture concerns, more elaborate testing and analysis may be involved.
6. Visual inspection of attics and basements for air leakage and insulation integrity. Also, we have ways of checking wall insulation.
7. A complete written report summarizing our findings, and prioritizing recommended measures. The report may include digital photos and infrared images from our on-site evaluation.
8. Optional: A Home Energy Rating is a computerized Energy-Use Analysis which allows us to estimate savings associated with energy improvements (proposed and/or implemented), calculate HVAC sizing, and occasionally to verify if a home meets Energy Star 86 rating score standard or for an Energy Efficient Mortgage.
9. We can submit Request for Proposals (RFP’s) to experienced and qualified contractors if appropriate based on our findings, with written specifications for the agreed upon measures.
10. Re-testing and re-inspection after improvements are completed result in Cash Rewards for Homeowners from the Focus on Energy Program (only available for natural gas customers). This follow-up visit is paid for by the Home Performance program.
Please visit www.focusonenergy.com Existing Homes for further details.
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