Whether you’re looking for a remodel for your bathroom or kitchen or a more extensive renovation for your entire home, before you get started, it’s important to do your homework. Beyond comparing contractors and making idea boards, you should also make sure your renovations are not just beautiful, but make your home a healthier, happier place to be. A home evaluation with an energy audit improves renovations by looking at your health, comfort, and home efficiency.
What Do Home Evaluations with Energy Audits Cover?
Let’s first talk about what a home evaluation is. A home evaluation with an energy audit assesses your home’s air quality, ventilation, humidity, heating, cooling, energy efficiency, and other factors that can affect how you live and feel in your home and your utility bills. It gives the inspectors a lot of data about your home, including potential issues and possible solutions.
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How a Home Evaluation and Energy Audit Improves Renovations
By getting all this diagnostic data analyzed by an expert who also understands home renovations, all these pain points can be turned into solutions—both in specific renovations and as part of “whole home” projects. Many of these solutions focus on ventilation improvements, something often forgotten during home remodels.
A Healthier Home
Air quality plays a huge role in home health. Stale air, pollen, dust, and even mold or off-gassing can contribute to both sickness and chronic conditions. Include ventilation systems, such as better bathroom fans and kitchen vent hoods, to remove humidity, reduce air pollution, and cycle air through your home.
A Happier Home
Home comfort is often overlooked in home renovations, playing second fiddle to beauty, function, and convenience. But you can have all four. A comfortable home is all about making sure rooms aren’t too hot, too cold, too dry, or too humid. Incorporating air sealing, insulation, and ventilation into your remodel can do all these things.
An Efficient Home
The last thing you want is a remodel to cost you more in the long run because of inefficient appliances, systems, air leaks, or insulation issues. Incorporating ENERGY STAR systems and appliances, making sure remodels don’t compromise insulation and airflow, and taking this time to address existing issues are vital.
Get an Evaluation Before Home Renovations in the St. Louis Area
At Greenmark Home Performance, we believe everyone should not just love the home they live in, but also be healthy and comfortable in it. It’s why we offer home evaluations and energy audits before home renovation and ventilation services start: so, before any work is done, you know the issues with your home and our suggested solutions, backed by diagnostic data and our years of experience. If you’re in the St. Louis area, schedule an evaluation today or call us at (314) 845-9144 to get started.
