Would you like a home that is:

  1. Comfortable year round – no hot or cold spots?
  2. Long lasting – 100 years or more of life left?
  3. Healthy – no (or realistically very few) nasty things inside like carbon monoxide, mold, toxic chemicals, radon, etc?
  4. Energy efficient – bills you can afford even on the hottest and coldest of months?

Of course you do!

These are all addressed with a Home Performance (sometimes called Whole Home) Approach.

Your home, like your body, is made up of systems: electric, plumbing, roofing, HVAC, walls, and so forth. These systems all work together, sometimes well, sometimes like siblings in a spat.

For instance, if you change your furnace but don’t add insulation or seal ductwork, you have to install a larger and more expensive model, and you will be less comfortable than if you insulated.

Or, if you air seal and insulate the attic, you concentrate heat there, shortening the life of your roof, and ventilation becomes more important.

These are a few examples of how home performance is important.


What is Home Performance? Home Performance is making your home a comfortable, long lasting, healthy, and energy efficient place by producing heated and air conditioned air (HVAC) as efficiently as possible, and keeping it inside the house as efficiently as possible (insulation and air sealing.)

Home Performance is founded on Building Science, which studies how to build structures that are healthy, durable, and energy efficient. So yes, we are all geeks.

This is also the approach that Energy Smart Insulation takes in recommending upgrades to your home. 

Click here to learn more about what the Department of Energy says about a whole home approach.

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