Home Performance Audit

A home performance audit sounds technical and a little intimidating, but it's really about understanding how your home works. The team at Wisconsin Home Improvement has the expertise and experience to show you the particular strengths and weaknesses of your home. Once we've completed the energy analysis, we can recommend solutions to improve your home's performance. And by performance, we mean comfort as well as efficiency, safety and energy savings.

Is Your Home Experiencing These Issues?

You're probably aware of some problems in your home that you experience during day-to-day living:

A room that's always too hot or too cold
Unusual drafty spots
Ice dams that return every winter
A musty smell that won't go away
Higher-than-average heating or cooling bills

A Wisconsin Home Improvement home performance audit uses many industry-standard tools to identify the causes behind these problems and many others. Once your home energy audit is completed, we can help identify the best solutions to these problems.

What is a Home Performance Audit?

This energy analysis is a comprehensive series of tests that inspects and measures your home's efficiency from top to bottom. In most cases, a Wisconsin home performance energy analysis can be completed in just 90 minutes. We always allow extra time in the appointment to answer your questions about what the results show and what steps are needed to correct the problems.

Our home performance team is certified by both Building Performance Institute (BPI) and Owens Corning to provide the most complete and accurate assessment of your home.

Steps to a Complete Home Energy Efficiency Analysis

There are several elements that are included in the home performance audit conducted by our Wisconsin Home Improvement experts. They include:

Infrared thermal imaging and diagnostics to identify thermal gaps in your home's perimeter
Blower door draft testing to use air pressure readings to determine air leakage
Combustion safety testing to test furnaces, water heaters and gas stovetops for proper and safe venting of gases formed from burning
An attic, basement and exterior assessment to visually confirm where under-insulated areas are located as well as identify moisture and mold issues.

Home Performance Audits: Useful & Important Information

Many of our customers are amazed and surprised by just how much wasted energy and money we identify once we've completed the efficiency report. Fortunately, improving your insulation and other steps are considered some of the most cost-effective ways to improve home performance. In fact, many homeowners save as much as 20% in energy bills upon completing remedies indicated by a home performance audit!

In addition, by solving some of the problems caused by poor insulation, leaky walls and ice dams, your home's systems will gain a longer life expectancy because they'll be working less hard to keep you comfortable.

Ready to save on energy bills with smart home improvements? Get in touch to schedule a home performance audit, and be sure to read up on our current specials to take advantage of money-saving opportunities!

Infrared Thermal Imaging & Diagnostics

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All homes require a certain amount of air exchange to keep the indoor air quality healthy and properly vent combustion appliances, like furnaces and gas stoves. Most homes, however, allow much more air than is necessary in and out through tiny leaks and cracks, which can be very difficult to locate.

Blower Door Draft Testing

If you've ever wondered where your home might be leaking your heated and cooled air, a blower door test is the best way to find out. Wisconsin Home Improvement uses blower door draft testing to find gaps, cracks and holes in your home's building envelope, or the boundary between your conditioned indoor air and the unconditioned air.

Combustion Safety Testing

Most homes are now equipped with standard carbon monoxide (CO) and smoke detection alarms for home safety. These detectors give families warnings when fire breaks out or unsafe levels of CO gases build up. A Wisconsin Home Improvement combustion safety test looks at the mechanical appliances that burn natural gas or fuel oil to ensure that dangerous gases, including carbon monoxide, are properly vented outside the home.

Attic, Basement, & Exterior Assessment

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The exterior walls or "envelope" of your house is where many efficiency and comfort problems originate. These areas of your home — including the roof/attic, exterior walls and basement — come in contact with the elements and are often where air infiltration or water seepage can cause problems. At Wisconsin Home Improvement, we assess these areas of your home in particular to make sure everything is functioning properly.

Does your home's energy efficiency measure up?

Our professional home performance audits will find out!

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I just wanted to take a minute to thank you and your Madison crew for the great work they are doing. Over the last few months I have worked closely with Dann, Roger, Marc and Jeremy and am extremely impressed with their attitudes and the quality of their work.

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The work your team did is fantastic! Also I would like to compliment your crew on their professional approach to our house and their work.

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Jan and I were amazed and impressed by the crew’s positive work ethic coupled with their gracious and friendly manner. Obviously they knew what they were doing and set to task with quickness and absolute thoroughness… you have our deepest appreciation.

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Please thank your crew for the great job they did here. They were all very personable, worked very hard, and they took the time to explain what they were doing.

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Thursday and Friday of last week one of your crews were at my home putting in some additional insulation and doing some other work. I just wanted to tell you that my wife and I were very impressed with the professionalism of your men.

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Lois W., Menomonee Falls, WI

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I wanted to thank you and your team again for the
great work you did and insulating our home. It is only been a week, and the
difference is amazing. Every room in this house feel substantially warmer.

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Mike & Erin M.

We wanted to provide feedback on our experience with Peter, who did our home energy audit. We felt he went above and beyond what was expected of him. He was very thorough and was genuinely concerned about any issues causing inefficiencies in our home. He explained things in terms we... Read More

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Tim S.

Steve, just a side note and I would not send this if it was not completely true - Mike and Pete were both fantastic. I was impressed. We had just had other major construction and have many comparatives for the work WHI did. I would come home and never know they had even been there.

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Cindy S.

I really feel compelled to give a "shout out" to everyone I have come into contact with at WHI. First off - Jody. You are so friendly and helpful on the phone, forgiving me for my inability to "on-line sign", switching up of dates, declining work and then changing my mind.

Cindy S., Whitefish Bay, WI

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James V.

Dear Steve,
We at Grace are so pleased with the quality of work and the professionalism of the crew that did the insulation. Mike and Igor were so respectful of the building and its contents, and so nice to everyone in the congregation who was working at church.

James V., Milwaukee, WI

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Jenny P.

I just wanted to extend a thank you to you and all of your employees who have spent time at our home fixing our attic issues.

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