Comments on: How to Get a Free Home Energy Efficiency Audit to Cut Costs & Conserve Energy

By: money babe

money babe — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:06:59 +0000

Good to know that you have a free energy audit. I would ask our electric companies here in Australia if they have such a service. I would love to have one too since I don’t have the technical know how about these electrical things. As long as I have a good running appliance I’m good. But lately we do have higher energy bills that get me worrying a lot. Maybe our house need caulking too or maybe some of the other stuff you mentioned. But I do know that CFL’s are environmentally friendly. My professor stressed that to us in one of our subjects.

By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:30:42 +0000

Our utility company will even offer to haul away the old appliances, too. Sometimes makes it worth the effort both in moving and saving money.

By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:27:39 +0000

How do you like the CFLs? They do make them much better than before. However, I still can’t put them in the bathroom. I still like my soft incandescent light bulbs. (baby steps)

By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:25:27 +0000

Thanks! You’re planning on moving soon anyway, right? How is that going for you two?

By the way, check your local city website for Energy Star Product rebates. Our city is teamed up with California Cash for Appliances to offer pretty good rebates. So, it can be worth it to replace the water heater and dishwasher (oh ya, that is something I need to do). We were going to do an Energy Star washer…um, you need to buy special laundry soap that costs an arm and leg. LOL.

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By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:45 +0000

We had an energy audit done a couple of months ago. The same sort of process but our rep gave us coupons of Energy Star appliances, talked about tax credits and local offers for recycling old appliances. All in all a great experience.

By: Mysti

Mysti — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:31:02 +0000

We had an energy audit in April. It was offered via our electric company, but they outsource. It cost us $25, but we got about $400 worth of stuff.

Two guys came through and hooked up a vacuum fan to the door to figure out how inefficient our windows and doors are. Next they went through the entire house and caulked, installed weatherstripping, barriers. Replaced ALL our lightbulbs with CFL ones. They did the fan test again, and our number went down 25%….the maximum they were allowed to do as part of the audit.

They made some recommendations, and if we had the money, we would have done some of that work. There were some great rebates! But it wasn’t in the budget at the time.

Well worth the money.

By: Little House

Little House — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:44:06 +0000

Good to hear you again! It’s great to know that your energy provider offers this service for FREE and they don’t try to sell you anything. I’d like to have one done on our rental, but I’m afraid they’d come back with some mighty expensive repairs that would need to be done by our slumlord; i.e. nothing would ever get done. Maybe on our next house we’ll ask for an energy audit right away. Thanks for the tip!