Home Energy Audit in Delmar, DE
Challenge
If you've never had a energy audit conducted on your home, even if it was recently constructed, you don't know the facts about how energy is being wasted in your home. Conditioned air, which you have paid to heat, cool, and adjust to proper humidity levels is being lost through the combined effect of hundreds of tiny leaks, individually are almost undetectable, but which combine to create expensive losses that can total tens of thousands of dollars over time.
This new construction in Delmar, DE had to be tested to meet Delaware Building Code.
Solution
Energy audits can show you the most cost effective measures you can take to make your home not only more comfortable, while reducing energy costs, year-round. These measure also provide protection for both your home and your health, guarding against problems that result from excess humidity, mold, microbial growth, and radon gas accumulation. These issues can lead to serious health problems including deadly lung and other cancer, as well as causing expensive structural repairs.
In the picture below we see the read out from the Blower Door Test. The blower door is a device used to measure the air leakiness of a home by measuring the amount of air flow needed to create a slight vacuum on the home. These have been required in the State of Delaware in recent years. This structure passed the test.
