Daily Home Renovation Tips

Short note today.

Regular readers of DailyHomeRenoTips.com know that we have participated in the ecoENERGY Residential Retrofit program whereby Canadian homeowners are given financial incentives to have two home energy audits performed on their home by accredited assessors and undertake prescribed energy efficiency improvements within their home.

To view our entire experiences, good and bad, under this program, simply select his link to our ecoENERGY page.

On February 11, 2009 we had the second, or ‘E’, Energy Efficiency Assessment (energy audit) under the ecoENERGY program. Below is the EnerGuide rating for our home which received shortly after this second energy audit:

On May 13, 2009, three months later, we received the ecoENERGY Residential Retrofit grant cheque from the Canadian Federal Government via Natural Resources Canada,the administrators of the ecoENERGY program.

The amount of the the cheque was $390, or $30 per ENERGY STAR replacement windows we had replaced between the first and second energy audits.

And then on June 11, 2009 we received a second $390 ecoENERGY grant cheque, this time from the Ontario Provincial government via the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.

We would have received much more had we known about the ecoENERGY Residential retrofit program.

We added a whole bunch of insulation in our attic after the program was well under way but the company we used did not tell us at all about the program.

Same for our new air conditioner; the company through whom we purchased our new central air conditioner never told us.

Together, we lost out over $2,000  ($1,500 + $500 for the air conditioner + $130 for the low flow toilet) in Federal and Provincial ecoENERGY grants combined because we did not know and no one told us.

Hopefully through out experiences, you are now aware so it doesn’t happen to you and so you become motivated to participate.

Oh, and don’t forget there is now (until early this year)  the additional home renovation tax credit that is also available.

Natural gas prices will not be at these depressed levels for ever.

Take action now.