Energy Audit Guys

This afternoon, my energy audit guys (Eric and Ed) from ProEnergy Consultants swung by and checked out my place.  These are the guys who did my energy audit last April.  Well, they walked around with their really cool thermal cameras and checked out my walls, attic and crawl space.

So what was the outcome?

Drum Roll Please....

My HVAC system is old and crappy.  What a surprise, huh?  And that's why I'm going to replace it!

Overall, my walls are fine.  We found some really small spots...but nothing really bad.  My attic insulation is fantastic...so that makes me feel good for paying that $430.  One suggestion was to put on some hoods over my air vents to direct the air more towards the middle of the room.  Using a smoke pen, the air apparently goes straight up to the ceiling and hugs the wall.  So I can fix that relatively easily.

My crawl space could use some more insulation...and I could do that fairly easily.  But the air temps down there were in the 60s, so its already staying fairly warm there (thanks to the crappy downstairs HVAC system).

Oh...and when sitting with the guys showing them how of the HVAC runs on TED, their impression was that the insulation was great...it's just the heat pumps are just old and have issues keeping up.

Anyhow...I also got my natural gas turned on.  I played with that a little bit beforehand.  I ran the system for an hour...and it didn't raise the room temperature at all.  Apparently the majority of the heat goes right up the chimney (it's a vented system...so I have to keep the chimney open)....so that sucks.

Well...I guess now I just wait for that geothermal quote...