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1. Structural Maintenance and Efficiency Plan
2. Thermal Scan
3. Heat Leakage Test
4. Occupant Behavior Consultation
5. Tune-Up Energy Audit
6. Home Performance Packages

This is the core platform of the Orca Efficiency Group philosophy to home energy and resource conservation. In our opinion, it is insane to embark on energy efficiency work to your home if you have pre-existing structural, system or moisture conditions that are damaging the home. We also believe that you can not make an old home more efficient overnight; you need a plan so that steps can be taken in a logical and efficient sequence. We like to call any home performance analysis with a structural maintenance and efficiency plan a HOPE report: Home On Path to Efficiency.

Our Maintenance and Efficiency Plan provides a non-technical evaluation of the following systems and provides an approximate replacement schedule as well as recommendations to better maintain, update and retrofit these systems for lower maintenance and improved energy efficiency:

• Exterior: Roofing materials and ventilation, siding, decks, windows, gutters, and drainage
• Heating and Cooling: Equipment and distribution systems
• Plumbing: Water heater, supply and waste pipes
• Electric: Electric load center and basic quality of branch wiring.
• Chimneys and auxiliary heaters
• Crawl space, basement, attic
• Appliances

Thermal Scan
Thermal cameras are an excellent tool for diagnosing where a home is loosing heat and where air sealing and insulation are needed. If thermal imaging is not done with a quality camera and by a trained expert, you risk, poor and incomplete images and inaccurate diagnosis of the images. That is why we bring in an expert. Brent Foster of Northwest Infrared is one of the most experienced thermographers in the state. He has invested in top of the line thermal imaging equipment and he is a level II thermographer. He spent over ten years as a home inspector prior to specializing in infrared. A Home Efficiency and Maintenance Consulation combined with a thermal camera scan is a very effective home diagnostic package.
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Heat Leakage Test
Air seal up is one of the least expensive ways to make your home more energy efficient and if you do the work yourself, paybacks are often less than 1 year. The heat leakage diagnostic service can speed up detection and repair of home leakage, allowing you to reduce heating and cooling costs very inexpensively. Air seal up can also greatly improve indoor air quality and home comfort. A heat leakage test involves setting up a fan called a blower door to depressurize the home. It utilizes a pressure and flow gauge to test relative pressures inside the home by which we can determine overall home leakiness. Using pressure pans and or duct blasters, we can also determine leaky areas of heating ductwork. This is a great diagnostic tool to establish how much improvement is needed in the house or ductwork. We also do what is called a CAZ test to make sure the home is not getting dangerously depressurized where combustion gas appliances are located.
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Occupant Behavior Consultation
The way in which an occupant lives in and uses a building can make a huge difference in the amount of energy consumed. In commercial properties they have found that a 50% energy savings can be affected by simply adjusting occupancy behavior. In residential homes a 20% swing in energy use is common. Aaron Campbell of Campbell Energy offers residential and small business energy audits and conservation consulting services. He performs a thorough whole-building wattage analysis, evaluation of utility bills, and overall occupant behavior conservation consulting. The goal: reduce the largest amount of energy loss for the smallest financial outlay possible.

Aaron Campbell is an Energy Star certified energy conservation consultant with training in home performance testing and weatherization retrofitting.

Campbell Energy LLC
glowplug@gmail.com
http://www.campbell-energy.com
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Tune-Up Energy Audit
The Tune-up Energy Audit is a home efficiency diagnostic designed to be friendly to home owners. Unlike many energy audits that are difficult to read and understand, the Tune-up energy audit lays out clean and easy to read tables listing recommendations to improve the energy efficiency of the home.

This Energy Audit Tune-up report will:

• List energy efficiency improvements and their approximate savings and cost for those improvements
• Identify those efficiency upgrades that save more than they cost when financed over 30 years.
• Explain each recommendation in detail
• Provide information on implementation and contractor services
• Suggest additional energy efficiency measures
• Provide guidance on indoor air quality
• Provide information on financing improvements and available tax incentives

Home Performance Packages
Looking at your home.s energy-using systems individually and ignoring the rest of the home is not a holistic approach to home energy and resource conservation and it is fraught with potential problems. That is why we offer Home Performance Packages that are recommended combinations of our services. This allows us to take a much more holistic approach to home performance and efficiency. Our approach is rooted in an "embodied energy" philosophy to conservation that is both fiscally and environmentally sound:

1. Respect and carefully maintain the systems that have been installed in your home because a lot of energy went into manufacturing and installing these systems and they have value that should be preserved to maximize useful service life and conserve energy.
2. Create a long-term plan to make an existing home more efficient. Just as a plan was needed to build the home in the first place, a plan is needed to maintain and retrofit your home to be more efficient; you can not do everything overnight.
3. Provide sound advice regarding which old and energy-hogging systems should be replaced, retrofit and updated and which should be tolerated until a later time. These packages offers just such a sound and realistic approach to home energy conservation advice.