Save Money With Home Energy Audits and Efficiency Consulting & Renovation in New Hampshire

For Home Owners, Builders and Architects in NH, VT, ME Who Wish to Audit Home Energy Use and Save Money

How to audit and modify your home plans to be Energy Star compliant at all levels of Energy Star Ratings, Save Money Heating Your New Hampshire Home and Earn Energy Saving Rebate Dollars!

Consultant for new or existing homes & additions.  We can audit your homes energy use (before and after it is built) to insure that you are saving as much money as possible on your home heating and energy use

• 2x6 construction- audit how to make it energy efficient.
• Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS)- what are they do, how they save money, how they work, when to use, are they an important component of an good home energy audit?
• Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF)- what are they ,do they work, when to use
• Log Homes- are they really energy efficient homes?
• Modular Homes- do they really save time & money, when to use them?
• Windows- what differences do the different types make, what are the energy star requirements, what are your lifetime requirements? Are there tax rebates available?
• Heating/AC equipment, does geothermal, wind & solar (active, passive, hybrid) work in the North east? Will it save money on my home energy use?  Oil, gas or propane?  Which is cheaper to buy, run?  Can I retrofit an existing home to Geothermal to save money?
• Distribution systems- FHA, BBHW, radiant (ceiling & floor) what works best, what are their limiting factors

• Solar gain (Yes, even in New Hampshire!)
• Blocking the winter wind
• Minimize carbon footprint
• Site drainage & natural landscaping

Consulting and Audit for Energy Renovations

Door Blower Test In the typical home, as much as 25% of your heating and cooling dollars escape thorough the unseen cracks and gaps.  It’s like leaving a window open all year round.

• Determine and audit the energy performance of the home, heating equipment, shell of the building, lifestyle of the people
• Identify areas of efficiency improvement
• Prioritize improvements by energy savings benefit
• Infiltration
• Insulation levels & performance
• Heating equipment efficiency
• Windows
• Exterior doors
• Life style of family
• Duct work & piping for heating & domestic hot water

Perform Blower door test to pressurize the house to determine the efficiency and air leakage of the house

Evaluate heating equipment to prevent or identify potential or existing CO2 poisoning

Recommend energy savings improvements showing payback dollars

Discuss/recommend energy sustainable options, such as solar (hot water & PV), geothermal (earth & water), wind turbines (active, passive, hybrid), pellet boilers & stoves

All work performed by energy team at BAI including energy rebates, & energy solutions financing

After all the work is done retest house to confirm the improved energy performance of your house

Home Green Home: Hunting Energy Leaks
By Tom Zeller Jr.
NY Times article

The following link take you to one in a series of articles in which Green Inc.’s editor, Tom Zeller Jr., explores ways to improve the energy efficiency of his home.

Home Green Home

On the occasion of my first home energy audit, I decided to see what I could dig up on the topic from The New York Times’s archives. How far back, I wondered, does this notion go — particularly the idea of using infrared cameras and other high-tech gizmos to really get the energy fingerprint of a home?

Readers might not be that surprised to learn that it reaches at least as far back as the 1970s — the last time energy and economic woes were forcing serious dinner-table conversations about insulation, air and heat loss, and other efficiency bugaboos.... (click for more)

Bobs Energy Saving Tips

For over 20 years we have been a family owned business, building and renovating homes throughout NH & parts of ME, MA, & VT.  Throughout this time, we have paid particular attention to "Green Building" techniques... long before it was fashionable. We are a Single-Family Housing Construction company specializing in “System Built” Homes. That is Timberframe, Log, SIPS, ICF, 2x6 Panelized, & Modular Homes. All our homes are potential Energy Star rated. Energy efficiency starts with the construction of the home and continues with Passive, Hybrid, & Active Solar. Geothermal Earth or Water source for heating, AC, & domestic hot water.   With all this experience, comes a fair amount of knowledge of energy saving tips that you can use with your existing home to save energy, money and feel good in the process.

• Your Home’s Air and Insulation Barriers dictate the Energy Performance or Heating bill and comfort level (Winter & Summer) of your home.
• Building Science has determined that 70-77% of your Homes heat lost is thought infiltration that is air that leaks in around your doors, windows, electric outlets basement and attic. It’s not “How much Insulation is Installed” it’s How well was it installed”!
• Many of the items listed below are no or low cost remedies, to high heating bills and increase comfort for your Family. The only way to determine the Overall Energy performance of your Home is through an Energy Audit. This is performed by a professional utilizing such testing equipment as a Blower Door, Draft Test and Gas Combustion Analyzer as well as a Gas Leak detector and most important visual inspection.
• The ultimate goal is to reduce your “Air Exchange Rate” (ACH) to 1/3^{rd ACH per hr.}
• Most Homes built in NH before 1970 have an ACH of 4-5/hr, that’s where the curtains blow in the wind. Homes built under the energy codes of the last 30 years have an ACH of +/- 2 ACH. The Energy Star program is trying to get builders to achieve an ACH of 1.25 for new construction. Existing home owners I’m sorry to say you’re on your own, not really but you need to want the improvements. There is rebate money from the Power Company as well as the Feds. It is possible to achieve an Energy Star rating for an existing Home. Here are some of the tasks you can do to your own home.

 Heating Energy Savings Tips (click here to read more...)

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