A home energy audit is an essential first step in making your home more comfortable, healthy, and affordable to heat and cool. Through a series of tests and analyses, our team of building science experts can pinpoint the exact areas in your Northern VA and DC area home where upgrades and insulation services can make the biggest difference in home performance.
HOW YOU BENEFIT FROM A HOME ENERGY AUDIT
- A review of your home from building science-certified, award-winning home experts
- Understand the underlying issues causing indoor drafts, high energy bills, unhealthy indoor air quality, noise pollution, and more
- Find solutions based on testing and building science, not guesswork
- An assessment of your home’s insulation and building envelope as well as home appliances and HVAC equipment including furnaces, boilers, air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, and ductwork
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Home Energy Medics is a home performance and energy audit contractor that can help you improve your home.
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EXTERIOR INSPECTION
We take an in-depth look at the outside of your DC area home, including your roof, exterior HVAC units, and look for areas where water and moisture could be getting inside.
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INTERIOR INSPECTION
We then head indoors, where we check the highest and lowest points of your home—like your attic and basement—for things like air leaks, moisture, and quality of insulation.
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COMBUSTION SAFETY TESTING
Your home energy auditor will test to see if combustion appliances like your furnace, boiler, water heater and kitchen stove are operating properly. Sometimes appliances may be producing high levels of carbon monoxide that is drafting into your house instead of out.
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FURNACE/BOILER/WATER HEATER EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS
How efficiently your appliances are running can have a significant effect on home performance, not to mention your energy costs. An energy audit includes a thorough performance test of all of your appliances.
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BLOWER DOOR TEST
With this test, a fan is set up in an exterior door, and air is drawn out of the house to determine your home’s overall air leakage level and identify exactly where air leaks are occurring.
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INFRARED CAMERA ANALYSIS
An infrared camera can see through walls and ceilings to pinpoint exactly where cold or hot air is entering and exiting your home. Through this test we get a better sense of your home’s insulation levels, and can spot where moisture may be creating problem areas in your home’s structure.
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BASIC DUCT LEAKAGE ASSESSMENT
Significant leaks in your ductwork can mean that you’ve been paying to create lots of conditioned air that is being lost before it reaches the living areas in your home. (A note that inspecting ductwork can be complicated, and comprehensive testing of your duct system can be performed, for an additional fee, to determine exactly where leakage is occurring and at what level.)
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AUDIT REPORT
All the results of our testing, including observations and our energy auditors’ recommendations for your home, are written up and presented in a final detailed report with pictures.
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CHOOSING BETWEEN OUR ENERGY AUDIT OPTIONS
Home Energy Medics offers two different tiers of home energy audits: our flat fee estimate and our comprehensive, full home audit. You can learn more about the differences between the two options here.
FIND OUT HOW MUCH YOU COULD SAVE ON HOME IMPROVEMENTS WITH REBATES AND TAX CREDITS
Many of the home improvement services we offer qualify for incentives because they make your home more energy efficient. As part of our home energy audits, Home Energy Medics will not only outline the recommendations for services we think your home will benefit from, like insulation and air sealing, but we’ll also outline any rebates and tax credits you may qualify for, including:
- Rebate programs run by local utility companies like Dominion, Pepco & BGE
- Federal tax credits of up to $1,200 for insulation, air sealing, and energy audits and $2,000 for heat pump and heat pump water heater installation
We’ll also outline financing options that can help you upgrade your home sooner!
A home energy audit is the first step towards lowering energy bills and improving the health and comfort of your home. Contact the local experts at Home Energy Medics now to get started.
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Our comprehensive home energy audit pinpoints problems.
A FULL HOME ENERGY AUDIT SHOULD ALWAYS BE THE FIRST STEP BEFORE SCHEDULING ANY UPGRADES OR RETROFITS.
A full home energy audit should always be the first step before scheduling any upgrades or retrofits. The solution to your heating and cooling problems may seem as simple as new insulation or air sealing, but without an audit, you're just taking a guess and may not see as much of an improvement in home performance (or reduction in energy costs) as you were hoping. A home energy audit from Home Energy Medics gives you peace-of-mind, and best of all, we refund all or part of the cost of an audit when you hire us to do the follow-up work!
HEAR WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE TO SAY
I hired Home Energy Medics August of 2021 to soundproof my bedroom. I live in a condo and could hear the neighbors above and next door to me and it was disrupting my sleep.