How much time do you spend in your home on an average day? Is it eight hours? 10 hours? More? Would you like your home to be as comfortable and energy efficient as possible? Then it makes sense to assess just how much energy you use—or waste—each day in powering, heating, and cooling your home.
A home energy audit is the first step to assess how much energy your home consumes and evaluate the measures you can take to make your home more energy efficient. An audit can help you pinpoint where your house is losing energy. It also determines the efficiency of your home’s heating and cooling systems and may reveal ways you can conserve heating fuel and electricity.
A professional auditor uses a variety of techniques and equipment, such as blower doors, which measure the leaks in the building, and infrared cameras, which reveal hard-to-detect areas of air infiltration and missing insulation.
For a list of energy auditors in Maine, go to www.efficiencymaine.org. Click on “At home” and then “Home Energy Savings Program,” and then “Find an energy advisor.”
