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Blew $600 on a home energy audit that just told me to close my blinds
Last month I paid a company $600 to walk through my house with a thermal camera, and all I got was a printout saying my attic hatch needed weatherstripping and I should shut the curtains on sunny days. My neighbor borrowed a $40 camera from the library and found the same leaks in an afternoon. Did anyone here actually get useful results from a paid audit, or is this whole thing a racket?
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morgan.rose25d ago
My sister paid $450 for an audit last winter and the guy found a duct leak behind her furnace that was dumping heat into the crawlspace, which fixed a $90 a month gas bill problem she'd been chasing for two years. The library camera shows you cold spots but it won't tell you why they're cold or what to do about them, and that gap is worth something. Your guy just sounds lazy, because a real audit should include a blower door test and a duct check, not a walk around with a camera and a printout about curtains.
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