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Energy Saving Products
We have lots of energy saving products to help you start saving on your energy bills right away. Here are a few of our favorites. To purchase products, or to find out about our other energy saving products, please call us at 904-268-8211.
Home Energy Monitoring Devices
A home energy monitor provides you with real-time feedback of your home’s electricity or other energy use. It allows you to monitor your energy using behavior and reduce your consumption accordingly. Homeowners typically reduce their energy consumption by 4-15% with a home energy monitor. Some models also display the cost of the energy used, as well as estimates of greenhouse gas emissions.
Water Heater Insulation Blankets
If your water tank is warm to the touch, you can save energy with a water heater insulation blanket. The blanket simply wraps around the tank to prevent heat from escaping, which lowers the amount of energy it consumes.
Water heater insulation blankets can reduce energy loss by 25%-45%, and save 4%-9% in water heating costs. The cost of the blanket is often recovered within one year through reduced energy costs.
Chimney Balloons
Chimney dampers often degrade and warp over time, and no longer provide a good seal – allowing your heated air to escape and cold drafts to come in. But there’s a simple and effective solution.
A chimney balloon is an inflatable plug for your fireplace chimney which prevents drafts, odors, bats and bugs from entering your home. It’s cost-effective, easy to install, and you can deflate the balloon when you want a fire, then re-install it later.
Insulated Attic Hatches
Even if your attic is properly insulated and air sealed, chances are your attic hatch isn’t. Attic hatches are usually pieces of plywood with fiberglass batt insulation stapled to the top side. Over time the insulation degrades and the wood warps, allowing air leaks.
In the winter, heated air escapes into the attic, making your house colder and costing you more money to heat. The warm, moist air in the attic can also contribute to mold and mildew growth, premature roof failure and ice damming. In the summer, hot air from the attic infiltrates your home, increasing your cooling costs.
Programmable Thermostats
Replacing your manual thermostat with a programmable thermostat is an effective and inexpensive way to lower your utility bills all year round. You can program the thermostat to automatically turn the heat or air conditioning on or off throughout the day, according to your needs. This way, you can use the utilities only when you’re home, or set it to turn on shortly before you arrive home to heat or cool your home for your arrival.
Of course, the savings will depend on how you use the thermostat, but many users save hundreds of dollars on their energy bills each year.
Water Heater Timers
Why pay to heat water while you’re sleeping or at work? With a water heater timer, you can set the water heater to shut off when you don’t need it. You can save $15-$20 on your electric bill each month – which can add up to a free month of electricity every year.
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P.B.
The energy auditor was very good and helpful. He keeps in touch with me to answer any of my questions.
D.G.
I was very satisfied with my energy audit. The auditor gave me some tips on attic insulation that were very helpful.
R.G.
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A. M.
My energy audit was very helpful. Joe Dempsey, your auditor, identified some structural problems that I was not aware of and explained to me why I need more insulation.
J. F.
The auditor was EXCELLENT! He spent ALOT of time with me. I am going to take 3 to 4 of his suggestions and correct these small items to save on my energy bills.
M. B.
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Your energy auditor was very nice and helpful. He answered all of our questions. We will recommend Home Energy Team to our friends and neighbors.
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Steve Sleigh, Chevy Chase
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Tim Clary
I was very satisfied with the auditor. He was great and gave me some very valuable information. I will refer him to people I know who may need a home energy audit.
Willie Gantt
Your home energy audit proved to be very informative and helpful. I was not aware of the updraft created inside our walls because of the balloon framing construction. You said that that can cause heat to be pulled out of the house with the draft going up inside the walls and should be re-mediated. You also said that the attic insulation was insufficient and that fiberglass batts can leave spaces for around the edges causing heat loss and that it should have blown in insulation on top of what was there to seal the whole attic and increase the r factor. After going over your findings and telling me how you would fix the problems you told me how I could do it myself with stuff from the Home Center and for a quarter of the cost. Well, I did. I went into the basement and filled the bottom of the wall joist with unfaced insulation where they set on the sill plate. I then cut one inch foam board the size for each space and set it in and the sealed the edges of that with expanding foam as well as the sill plate to the foundation. I also sealed the sill plate to the foundation where the joist ran along it, as well as the top of those joist where it made contact with the subflooring. Next I went to the home center and rented their blown insulation machine and got ten bales of the insulation. I filled the attic on top of the batt insulation with about six inches giving another r-19 factor on top of the r-19 that was there. You said that the blown in would also help seal the heat loss around the edges of the batt. The work in the basement cost $144.00 and the work in the attic cost $328.00. After the 30% federal energy tax credit it will end up costing me about $330.00, which you said I should recover in savings in the first year. Thank You for all your advice and expertise. You made me aware of things I should consider and did.
Tommy Thompson
