Energy Audit
We believe it is important to educate all home owners on the tremendous value from having an energy audit performed on their home. This report identifies all kinds of ways to reduce home energy consumption, save the home owner money, help them do their tiny part to help reduce the spread of global warming and help save the planet.
So, we have created the ECOENERGY page on our web site to make it easier for everyone visiting our site to find all 15 articles in the order in which they were written. These articles examine the various charts, graphs, ratings and recommendations specific to our home which is a very typical suburban home in a residential area.
We hope you not only enjoy reading this collection of articles, but also that they motivate you to conserve energy in your own lives and, if you are a home owner, to have an energy audit done on your own home, regardless of where you live on this planet we humans call Earth. So, here are our articles on our ecoENERGY Grant program experiences. More to come in the future. Enjoy!
ecoENERGY Report - Part 1 - Progam in Brief
ecoENERGY Report - Part 2 - EnerGuide Rating Chart
ecoENERGY Report - Part 3 - EnerGuide Rating Concerns
ecoENERGY Report - Part 4 - Basement Wall Insullation
ecoENERGY Report - Part 5 - Report Error
ecoENERGY Report - Part 6 - Windows & Tankless
ecoENERGY Report - Part 7 - Drain Water Heat Recovery (DWHR)
ecoENERGY Report - Part 8 - Air Sealing / Leakage
ecoENERGY Report - Part 9 - Bathroom Fans & Standby Power
ecoENERGY Report - Part 10 - Wind Power & Solar Space Heating
ecoENERGY Report - Part 11 - Photovoltaic (Solar Power) System
ecoENERGY Report - Part 12 - Space Heating Consumption Graph
ecoENERGY Report - Part 13 - Annual Heat Loss Graph
ecoENERGY Report - Part 14 - Annual Heat Loss Further Analysis
ecoENERGY Report - Part 15 - Now What? / Our Action Plan
ecoENERGY Report - Part 16 - The Second Audit - Part 1
ecoENERGY Report - Part 17 - The Second Audit - Part 2
ecoENERGY Report - Part 18 - The Second Audit - Part 3
ecoENERGY Report - Part 19 - The Second Audit - Part 4
ecoENERGY Report - Part 20 - The Second Audit - Part 5
ecoENERGY Report - Part 21 - The Second Audit - The Results
ecoENERGY Report - Part 22 - Final EnerGuide Rating
Hopefully the DailyHomeRenoTips.com ecoENERGY Report series is sufficient motivation for you to particpate in the program by selecting the ecoENERGY Retrofit Program link in our blog roll if you are in Canada. If you live outside of Canada, hopefully you contact your local utility to inquire about an energy audit on your home.
In either case, you don’t have to wait for an energy audit to take action now. We found this wonderful new solar blind product from EZ Snap Direct which is amazingly simple to install on the exterior of windows of any shape and size, does not block the view from the inside, yet is an effective energy conservation product; it reduced our interior temperature gauge reading by a full 15 degrees F! Seriously.
Their web site has excellent short videos explaining the product and how most anyone can easily install it in a, well, a snap. :-) We purchased ours, installed it this spring and have written a series of articles about our experiences with it starting with Exterior Solar Blinds - Part 1 - The Need. If you want to learn more simply select the link below.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Art // Mar 21, 2008 at 2:29 pm
The ez snap shades sound very interesting. If you don’t mind sharing, where did you purchase them and what was the price.
Thanks,
Art
2 Dan // Mar 22, 2008 at 2:11 am
Hi Art,
I ordered mine directly from EZ Snap using their graphic above to link directly to their web site.
The products costs under $3 per square foot…even less if one uses the Coupon code they provided in the above graphic.
Dan
3 Chris // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hi, where is the info re. the 1% public uptake of this program?
Thanks
4 Dan // Aug 1, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hi Chris,
You can find it here in the article we wrote:
http://dailyhomerenotips.com/2008/04/02/ecoenergy-retrofit-program-1st-anniversary-progress/
We obtained it directly from the Natural Resources Canada.
Dan
5 Aaron // Dec 16, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Great read! Energy efficient and green friendly home improvement info is such a great help to homeowners. Even if they don’t know until they read it…
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