Energy Audits
Complete Home Evaluation Services offers the most thorough, comprehensive Energy Audit of multi-family, commercial, municipal and residential buildings in the state of Maine.
Read more:
- Home Energy Audits
- Multi-Family Energy Audits
- Municipal Energy Audits
- Commercial Energy Audits
- Energy Audits for DIYers
- Air Quality and Combustion Safety Testing
- The Independent Energy Audit vs. The Sales Pitch Audit
- Questions to Ask Your Energy Auditor
DeWitt Kimball of Complete Home Evaluation Services is among New England's premier building science experts. His independent, third-party positioning and peerless expertise, combined with the most advanced diagnostic equipment available, all combine to set his energy audit services on a level above the competition.
While many energy auditors are content to do a quick visual inspection and maybe change out some lightbulbs, without doing a complete and thorough evaluation of a building's primary source of heat loss -- the building envelope -- CHES is equipped with the most advanced diagnostic technology to create an accurate, true energy model for the building based on a huge number of data points.
Among them:
- The entire surface area of the structure is measured.
- All windows are measured. Type of glass, orientation and overhangs are all accounted for.
- Flat surfaces vs. sloped surfaces are accounted for.
- Heating system output/efficiency is measured.
- Current insulation characteristics are determined.
- Air leakage rates are determined.
- Indoor air quality is analyzed (always based on winter conditions, when the house is sealed up, for greater accuracy).
All of this information is taken at the address itself, and the energy model is created for the climate zone for a particular house, down to the address. Most "energy audits" definitely do not do this -- they're often based on averages and rules of thumb, but a true energy model of the building is not created (with the result that typical analyses and recommendations can be way off base).
Whether you own a commercial, residential, multi-family or municipal property, you can be sure to maximize energy savings, indoor comfort, air quality and building durability by investing in the thorough, trusted services of Dewitt Kimball of Complete Home Evaluation Services.
