The ecoENERGY grant program is over, but there is still a need to know how to best improve our homes to make them more energy efficient. One or more of our services is ideal for Homeowners who wish to have one or more of the following questions answered:

• You are concerned with high heating bills and wish to know what you can do to lower them, including the possibility of switching to a different heating fuel. We can answer the question, how much could we save? We can provide a time to break even analysis for heating system upgrades.
• You are a recent purchaser of an existing home and wish to include energy efficiency input into plans for future improvements.
• You are planning major renovations, and wish to identify and solve issues related to construction and insulation defects during the renovation. You would also like to make your home more energy efficient.
• Most houses have unwanted air leaks that make our houses unnecessarily more expensive to heat, and create uncomfortable cold drafts. We can identify the sources of these drafts, and recommend solutions. We can also provide a dedicated draft detection service to pinpoint leaks.
• How can I reduce my electricity bill, and what are the major items that contribute to high electricity bill

In the fall of 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on the process of doing energy audits. Today we will resume doing energy audits once the public health measures permit entering other people's homes for non-emergency work.

The spring and fall are the best times to detect air leaks with the thermal camera. Our approach is to request that only one home owner be present during the audit, and that we both wear masks during the visit. One home owner is recommended to get maximum value from our visit so that you can see where the air leaks are located as we use the thermal camera and you can take good notes to assist you in air leak reduction.

We provide good advice to help you make your home more energy efficient. Old-school work ethic and values guarantee your satisfaction and peace of mind.

• Typical Audits with thermal scan are $350 plus HST unless the home is unusually complex.
• Our objective is to give you advice that enables you to improve your home's energy efficiency so it is more economical to operate and more comfortable.
• We focus on finding the best return on renovations to improve energy efficiency, not biased by grant incentives.
• We look for and identify air leaks which when corrected will make your house more comfortable, and more economical to heat and cool.
• We can search for building defects that cause rooms to be hard to heat, or are always cold.
• Using thermal scans and a blower door at the same time we can locate many construction flaws that would not surface with either technology alone. The images shown above are two recent thermal scan images. For more annotated thermal scan examples, click here.
• We can locate missing or sagging wall insulation using thermal scans of your walls.
• We can identify causes of ice dams and can suggest solutions.
• We can advise about indoor air quality topics, and use the air leakage results to analyze if an HRV is required.
• We can give impartial advice on selecting replacement heating systems that can lower your heating costs.
• We can suggest ways to adapt to Time-of-Day metering of electricity and minimize your electrical costs.
• We do a Combustion Spillage safety test on houses that have combustion appliances or fireplaces that are not directly vented, using the methodology specified by NRCan to its ecoENERGY Advisors.
• Our report provides estimated energy savings for various items suggested for efficiency upgrades.
• We can provide good advice about integrating efficiency improvements in your renovation plans