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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Do you need an enrgy audit on your home?

I was recently talking to a home inspector and he was saying that government mandated energy audits are coming. That means added expense when selling a home. And if you have a government mandated energy audit, I'll bet there is government mandated repairs to go along with the sale of a house.

So I'm thinking that it might be wise for all of us to get on the trend now and start looking at how much our homes are wasting energy. I know my own home has to waste a lot of energy, my electric bill in the summer tells me that!

So I did some digging around and found a great area of the CPS Energy site from San Antonio. CPS recomends that we look into four main areas in our homes for energy waste:

I found the following tid bits to be interesting:
  • - The air conditioner is the single most top energy user in your house.
  • - There are great ways to save money with your water heater without compromising your confort.
  • - Compact fluorescent light (CFL) or Light emitting diode (LED) light bulbs can save more money that you would think
  • - The fridge is the most wasteful applicae in the home. Is yours energy efficient.

If you would like to have a professional come to your house and conduct a thorough energy audit of your home, give me a call.

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