Vinyl Siding Install - Free Energy Audit

Through AWT Vinyl's subsidiary company, Georgia Energy Audits, we are able to offer the industry’s most advanced, effective and environmentally safe products and services. Since every home is different, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to increase comfort and reduce utility bills. That’s why every consultation begins with a 15-Point Energy Inspection to determine your home’s unique characteristics and your specific needs and objectives. This audit is completely free of charge with no obligation to buy anything.

Comparing Your Results to Your Utility Bill
Energy use varies widely, even among seemingly identical homes! This is because of differences in house design, appliances, lifestyles, and comfort requirements. If your Home Energy Saver results differ from your actual energy bills, be sure to first check that all your input values agree with how your home is actually designed and operated. If the total cost differs but energy use is the same, keep in mind that we use a single price for energy, while many utilities use complicated "tariff structures", where the price varies by the time of year and/or day, your level of consumption, or other factors. Any remaining differences are probably due to one or more of the factors below. After reviewing these factors, you may want to modify some of the HES inputs that are more difficult to measure or estimate (thermostats settings, washer loads, insulation levels, percent of floor area that is conditioned) to get a better match between your actual bills and the HES estimates.

Following are factors that could cause your actual consumption to be higher than the HES results. Most can be corrected by double-checking and modifying your house description.

You have miscellaneous appliances not included in the HES input pages

You have more than one refrigerator or other major energy user that you forgot to input into HES

You use portable space heaters during the winter, but did not include them in your house description

Your ducts are leakier and/or less insulated than specified

Your insulation was not properly installed or has deteriorated over time

Your appliances, spa, pool, or other miscellaneous appliances are larger, less efficient, or operated more than HES assumes

You keep your thermostat on higher settings than modeled in HES (remember that thermostat settings can be very complicated if different household members use different settings)

Last winter (or the period that your actual bills are from) was colder than average, and/or the summer was hotter than average*

You had extra visitors (remember those pesky in-laws that came in August... and stayed through Thanksgiving?)

Following are factors that could cause your actual consumption to be lower than the HES results. Most can be corrected by double-checking and modifying your house description.

You have a wood stove or solar heating, whose energy cost is not included in your utility bills

You don't heat or cool parts of your house that were included in the HES inputs

You use a clothesline instead of a clothes dryer

You took a long vacation this year

Your appliances, spa, pool, or other miscellaneous appliances smaller, more efficient, or are operated less than HES assumes

You keep your thermostat on lower settings than modeled in HES (remember that thermostat settings can be very complicated if different household members use different settings)

Last winter (or the period that your actual bills are from) was warmer than average, and/or the summer was cooler than average*

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