Specializing in
Indoor Air and
Energy Efficiency
503-526-3828
Our Services
We can take care of the following. Click on a link to learn more.
From energy audits to full-service home performance contracting, we offer a range of services to help you start making your home more comfortable, more affordable, and more environmentally friendly, today.
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Air Sealing
WHAT IS AIR SEALING?
Air leakage occurs when cracks and openings release conditioned air from inside the house and allow outside air to enter the house. Properly air sealing unseen cracks and openings in your home will help reduce drafts, control moisture, reduce indoor air pollutants and improve overall comfort.
Air Sealing Benefits:
- Save money and energy. If your house is leaking air, you're losing valuable heated and cooled air, making your home drafty and less comfortable. You're also wasting energy and money because your heating and cooling equipment will need to work longer and harder.
- Improve insulation effectiveness. To get the most from insulation, your home should be properly sealed against air leaks. Just as insulations helps retain the heat in your home, air sealing prevents conditioned air from escaping from your home.
- Minimize moisture and indoor air problems. Air leaks in attics and walls carry heated air into cold places where condensation is likely to form. Air leakage from garages, crawlspaces and other locations can also transport moist air, pollutants and odors into your home.
- TESTING
We come to your home and perform a blower door test to identify air infiltration and leakage throughout your home. From there we seal areas in the home that provide air leakage and may recommend ventilation and insulation improvements for greater efficiency, comfort and safety.
ENERGY TRUST AIR SEALING INCENTIVES
As with all of our services we will bring along the correct incentive paperwork and help you fill it out.
Blower Door Testing
Blower door testing is a way to test the "leakiness" of your home. By depressurizing your home and measuring the rate at which air infiltrates through imperfections in the building envelope, we're able to assess how much energy (and money) is escaping through air leaks, and how much you're likely to save by fixing those leaks. As part of this process, we will inspect the house with a smoke stick to pinpoint potentially hidden air leaks (making it much easier to address them when the time comes to get to work). We also offer blower door testing as an isolated service to test the effectiveness of improvements that have been made to a home, and to provide homeowners and contractors with a roadmap to further improve a home's efficiency moving forward.
Duct Cleaning
The Environmental Protection Agency has said that indoor air quality is up to 100 times worse than outdoor air quality.
It's Time To Clear the Air
- Cleaner Healthier air to Breath
- Reduced Dust Levels
- Improved Efficiency of Heating and Cooling System
- Do you live in a new or newly remodeled home?
- Do you experience headaches, nausea, or burning sensations in the nose, throat, or eyes more frequently at home than when outside?
- Do you live in a house that has been recently insulated or weather-proofed?
- Do you have allergies to mold and mildew?
- Do you regularly clean excessive dust accumulations from your household furniture?
- Do you have pets?
- Do you notice poor air flow?
- Do you one or more smokers in your household?
- Do you have a central air circulating system that utilizes a standard throw-away fiberglass filter?
If you answered "Yes" to any of the above questions, your home may suffer from indoor air pollution
We believe in keeping our pricing simple and affordable.
Duct Cleaning - Residential Homes
NO BAIT AND SWITCH LIKE THE "$99.95 CLIPPER ADS"
Residential home have a $50 set up fee and a charge of $15 for each register and opening to be cleaning and sanitized. The sanitizer, Environcon has the lowest EPA toxicity rating and work at killing odors and microorganisms associated with mold, mildew and bacteria growth.
Additional Services:
Cleaning of supply and return lines - $89.00
Cleaning of furnace blower motor - $99.00 - $149.00
Moisture Barrier Installation and Repair - To be determined
Mold Inspection - Free
Mold Remediation - To be determined
We service the Portland metro area, including Portland, Tigard, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, Wilsonville and other near by areas.
Ducts for Buck$
Help us spread the word! After you’ve had your air duct system cleaned by us, tell your friends, neighbors, co-workers and relatives. To thank you for helping us get new customers, we’ll send you $15 following the completion of any job that has resulted from your recommendation!
Duct Sealing
If your home is heated or cooled with a ducted system, it's important to make sure your ducts aren't leaking. Leaky ducts let hot or cold air escape, which wastes energy and money. Testing and sealing your ductwork can trim your energy costs, make your home more comfortable and reduce indoor air pollution.
We are proud to be an ally with Energy Trust of Oregon and have been trained and certified to perform the needed tests and sealing procedure that will allow you to receive amazing Energy Trust incentives. The best part is that we furnish and fill out the incentive paperwork along with bringing a stamped addressed envelope with us to send in immediately after we complete the process.
What is the process and how long does it take?
Our certified technicians first conduct what is called a
If your ducts are leaking, we seal the leaks and conduct a second blower test to determine the CFM reduction. After the second test is complete, we complete the needed test worksheet that reflects to pre and post CFM numbers. The entire process can take from four to 8 hours depending on the size of home and leakiness ducts.
Infrared Diagnostics
Having your home evaluated with an infrared scanner sheds valuable light on the effectiveness of your home's thermal envelope. An infrared scanner reveals hidden air leaks and areas where insulation isn't performing, and can also yield some interesting surprises -- such as where an uninsulated hot water pipe or recessed lights may be contributing to an ice dam, for an example. It's a valuable part of any good home energy audit, and a step that we guarantee to take with thoroughness and precision (although our experience tells us that it can also be a fun part of the energy audit for homeowners).
Insulation
Properly insulating your home will not only help reduce your heating and cooling costs but also make your home more comfortable. Here you'll find the following information.
You need insulation in your home to provide resistance to heat flow. The more heat flow resistance your insulation provides, the lower your heating and cooling costs.
Heat flows naturally from a warmer to a cooler space. In the winter, this heat flow moves directly from all heated living spaces to adjacent unheated attics, garages, basements, and even to the outdoors. Heat flow can also move indirectly through interior ceilings, walls, and floors—wherever there is a difference in temperature. During the cooling season, heat flows from the outdoors to the interior of a house.
To maintain comfort, the heat lost in the winter must be replaced by your heating system and the heat gained in the summer must be removed by your cooling system. Properly insulating your home will decrease this heat flow by providing an effective resistance to the flow of heat.
An insulation's resistance to heat flow is measured or rated in terms of its thermal resistance or R-value.
Adding Insulation to an Existing Home
Unless your home was specially constructed for energy efficiency, you can usually reduce your energy bills by adding more insulation. Many older homes have less insulation than homes built today, but adding insulation to a newer home may also pay for itself within a few years.
Home Performance Contracting
Home performance contracting includes looking at everything from lighting to insulation, from the boiler in your basement to the air sealing in your attic, to solve everything from moisture problems to energy waste and beyond. A relatively new field grown out of an increased awareness of the need to address the poor performance of our existing homes, the goal of HP contracting is to fix them. We do so by maximizing energy efficiency and building durability, ensuring the healthiest possible indoor air quality, and evaluating the relationships between your home’s various components to ensure that they’re all functioning as they were designed to. The result is a home that is more durable, more comfortable, more energy efficient and better for the environment and future generations—exactly how a home should be.
Home Energy Audits: Great Information for Existing Homes
Chances are, you're spending much more on utility bills than you need to be. A home energy audit gives you the opportunity to fix that. Using the latest technology, including a blower door to assess air leakage and infrared thermography, a comprehensive home energy audit will point out leaks in your home's thermal envelope, deficiencies in insulation, and other opportunities to stop heat loss and reduce energy consumption, while improving the comfort and safety of your home. In addition to recommending fixes to reduce energy, we'll also evaluate carbon monoxide safety, mold and other air quality isssues and improvements to temperature and lighting comfort. Our comprehensive audit report will include a prioritized list of potential improvements, and an estimate of the savings our recommended work will likely lead to.
HVAC
In 2010 we added Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Services with a new partner. Please call us for any of your HVAC issues or problems!
