by HomeReadyInspections | Nov 25, 2022 | Home Inspection, Insulation
Insulation in your home provides resistance to heat flow and lowers your heating and cooling costs. Properly insulating your home not only reduces heating and cooling costs, but also improves comfort. How It Works To understand how insulation works it helps to...
by HomeReadyInspections | Nov 25, 2022 | Energy Tips
Heat pumps offer an energy-efficient alternative to furnaces and air conditioners for all climates. Like your refrigerator, heat pumps use electricity to transfer heat from a cool space to a warm space, making the cool space cooler and the warm space warmer. During...
by HomeReadyInspections | Nov 25, 2022 | Energy Tips
Three-quarters of all homes in the United States have air conditioners. Air conditioners use about 6% of all the electricity produced in the United States, at an annual cost of about $29 billion to homeowners. As a result, roughly 117 million metric tons of carbon...
by HomeReadyInspections | Nov 25, 2022 | Blower Door Test, Energy Tips
You can save money on your heating and cooling bills by simply resetting your thermostat when you are asleep or away from home. You can do this automatically without sacrificing comfort by installing an automatic setback or programmable thermostat. Using a...
by HomeReadyInspections | Nov 23, 2022 | Blower Door Test, HVAC Duct Testing
Home energy professionals use a blower door as a diagnostic tool to determine how much air is entering or escaping from your home. Professional energy assessors use blower door tests to help determine a home’s airtightness. Our blower door instructional video...
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