In order to better answer your questions about ecoProach, our services, and energy auditing, we have created this FAQ for your reference. If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for, don’t hesitate to contact us.
1. What is an ecoProach home health and energy audit?
2. Why is an ecoProach home health and energy audit better than standard home evaluations?
3. What are the benefits of an ecoProach home audit?
4. What is the process of an ecoProach home health and energy audit?
5. What does an ecoProach audit cost?
6. What should I do to prepare for my audit?
7. How long will my audit take?
8. What do I get as far as a deliverable from ecoProach?
General Questions:
9. Why do I need an ecoProach home health and energy evaluation?
10. I just had my windows replaced. Why do I still need an energy audit?
11. I just had new insulation installed. Why would I still need an energy audit?
12. I just recently had my home remodeled. Why would I need an energy audit?
15. Can you do an audit for my business?
17. How does having an ecoProach home health and energy audit help combat global warming?
18. Can ecoProach guarantee that I will cut my energy bill in half?
19. Can you notify me when and if ecoProach offers a special promotion?
20. Who completes all of ecoProach’s recommended retrofitting?
1. What is an ecoProach home health and energy audit?
We like to think of the home as similar to the human body, which also has many systems and subsystems. Every part of the body needs to work together to function at 100%, just like your home. To make sure you're living in a home that is healthy, clean, and efficient, it is necessary to test the functionality of these systems.
As part of our audit, we analyze the following systems: weatherization, heating, ventilation, and cooling systems, insulation, water heating system, windows, lighting, health and safety, and exterior considerations.
What's our deliverable? We provide you with printable analytics that explain where your home can benefit from remediation work, and the projected savings based on the level of work you decide to have done.
2. Why is an ecoProach home health and energy audit better than standard home evaluations?
ecoProach facilitates a full, comprehensive evaluation of systems that go beyond the typical energy-consuming systems of a home. These additional systems include combustion safety, back drafting, asbestos, structural issues, and etc.
In addition to our technical skills, our personal style and flexibility makes our auditors welcome in any home.
3. What are the benefits of an ecoProach home audit?
The benefits of having an ecoProach home efficiency audit come from our quantifiable and measurable analytic readouts that speak to the inefficiencies of a home. Once remediation is completed we can verify the success of the remediation.
Other benefits include a healthy home, a comfortable environment, which enhances quality of life. Tremendous savings on energy bills, taking advantage of tax breaks.
4. What is the process of an ecoProach home health and energy audit?
ecoProach has a very methodical approach to their home health and energy audits which start with a :
Blower door test
Combined blower door test with thermal infrared imaging
Duct blower test
Combustion analysis
Attic inspection
Crawl-space inspection
Exterior evaluation inspection
5. What does an ecoProach audit cost?
Every home is different, so call us today to get a free quote. Toll Free: (877)720-7201
6. What should I do to prepare for my audit?
Your auditor will let you know what to expect and anticipate for their customized audit. ecoProach auditors are very sensitive to the personal space, privacy, and belongings of a homeowner and great care is taken not to disturb the home. This would include wearing booties, laying down drop-cloths, and cleaning up upon completion/departure.
7. How long will my audit take?
an ecoProach health and energy usually takes from 3-5 hours for an average home.
8. What do I get as far as a deliverable from ecoProach?
You get a detailed report that breaks the results of our audit down into 10 categories, some of which will include: Pictures of health and safety issues, test results for combustion analysis, infrared thermal imaging results that identify areas of needed attention, full heating and air conditioning efficiency analysis, measurements regarding building shell integrity, and a recommended summary of proposed remediation. Included in the report is an estimate for remediation.
Your ecoProach auditor will review the results with you personally to answer any questions the you may have regarding the testing results and remediation actions.
9. Why do I need an ecoProach home health and energy evaluation?
Every house is hiding a dirty secret, a secret because you don’t know about it, dirty because it’s something that needs to be cleaned up. Let us help you take care of the problems with your home that you cannot see.
10. I just had my windows replaced. Why do I still need an energy audit?
New windows can make a home more comfortable, efficient, and even help remediate noise. However, this is only one part of the house, and within the house there are many different systems that need to be looked at comprehensively.
You can make your home function better as a whole with an ecoProach audit . The tests we do expose areas of beyond the visible that the average homeowner may not be aware of.
11. I just had new insulation installed. Why would I still need an energy audit?
It's always good to make sure you have adequate insulation , but there are many other aspects of a house that need to be examined that go beyond insulation, some of which are weatherization, heating and air conditioning, system integrity, health and safety, etc.
12. I just recently had my home remodeled. Why would I need an energy audit?
While the city code is slowly catching up to the higher green building standards, they only focus on the remodeled area of your home. There is never a requirement to bring the preexisting portion of the home up to a green standard.
Wasting hundreds and thousands of dollars on energy a year and exposing you and your family to health hazards itself. With that said, ecoProach will credit back the full cost of a home health and energy audit towards the retrofit work.*
Once the retrofit work has been completed, there are multiple tax credits and incentives that are being given NOW to make any remediation more attractive to homeowners. There are no rebates for the audit, but rebates come from doing the remediation work.
15. Can you do an audit for my business?
The same health and home energy audit that ecoProach conducts can be applicable to some small business buildings. Call us to see if you qualify.
It is the energy audit that will put people back to work and end the current economic challenges that Americans are going through. It’s a win-win situation. In addition to saving you money on energy bills
17. How does having an ecoProach home health and energy audit help combat global warming?
By implementing the recommended retrofits as a result of an ecoProach audit, you will reduce the amount of energy your home needs, therefore reducing your carbon footprint. We will show you places in your home where you can take advantage of such as solar panels
18. Can ecoProach Guarantee that I will cut my energy bill in half?
We can guarantee you will save money, but the extend of the savings depends on the home. We can make recommendations that will make some savings but that is dependent upon the age of the home, consumption habits of the occupants, and the quality of workmanship that was executed during the home’s construction. Beyond dollar savings, there is the comfort factor that is very difficult to put a dollar value to.
19. Can you notify me when and if ecoProach offers a special promotion?
Sure, just contact us.
20. Who completes all of ecoProach’s recommended retrofitting?
Remediation and retrofit work is conducted by ecoProach’s parent company: CB&D, a licensed green building company and adheres to NARI Green standards.
*If the audit fee is 10% or less of the cost of the remediation work.
