Every House Needs an Energy Audit

Want to save some money on your heating and cooling bills? If so, it might be time to consider an energy audit for your home. Available for free from many utility companies and for a fee from trained, licensed technicians, home-energy audits identify the location and severity of a home's energy-loss sites. Using tools such as blower doors, duct blasters, and infrared thermographs, home-energy auditors help homeowners to determine the best ways to make homes energy tight. Living in a new home doesn't necessarily make you safe from scrutiny, either. Every house needs an energy audit. This article includes a listing of Web sites that do energy-audit calculations to help you get the process under way.