Energy Audits

A home energy audit is the best way to assess how much energy your property consumes and where savings can be made.

Why should I get an Energy Audit carried out?

It's a good idea to get an energy audit carried out on your house to assess heat loss through roof, walls, ground floor, windows, and your space heating and domestic hot water system. The home energy audit will highlight the energy loss through these parts of the home. The energy audit will advise on practical choices and solutions that will improve the energy efficiency of your home. Recommendations we make will ensure that you only install systems and technologies that are suitable to your home.

What are the benefits of a Home Energy Audit?

In an environment of rising energy prices, it is now more beneficial than ever to be aware of the level of energy consumed by your home. This knowledge can be used to save money as you reduce your energy consumption.
The cost of the energy audit can be recouped quickly through adopting some of the no-cost and low-cost measures outlined in the accompanying advisory report. Implementing some of the high-cost measures can have even greater benefits over time.
The knowledge gained will help build energy awareness in your home.

What does the Energy Audit cover?

Electrical sage
- areas where you are using electricity unnecessarily
Window and Doors
- draught stripping
- structural analysis
Ventilation
- analysis of current system - Natural or Mechanical Ventilation
- feasibility study on ways to improve the efficiency of this system
Lighting
- percentage of low energy lighting throughout your home
Insulation
- checking of insulation standards in your home
Space and Water Heating systems
- assessing the efficiency of your current systems
- analysing the hot water cylinder and plumbing insulation

Each of the above areas is analysed and examined for defects. We also highlight areas of improvement. It is essential that all of the above are working to the optimum levels as this will ensure that as little energy as possible is being used.

What then?

Energy Efficient Bulb

Our home energy audit comes complete with an advisory report. This report will outline, in plain English, areas where energy consumption can be reduced. The advisory report will detail easy to follow steps that will improve energy efficiency in your home. Any technologies we recommend are researched by our team to guarantee that they will be compatible with your home. Suggested solutions will come with an estimated savings forecast, which will specify an estimated return on your investment. We will also seek to find suppliers in your local area.

The report will outline in three simple stages the ways in which you can become more energy efficient: no-cost, low-cost, and high-cost. Quite often the audit will indicate that drastic action is not always required to increase the energy efficiency of your home. No-cost, simple measures can have a positive impact.