You can think of a home energy audit as your home’s energy efficiency check-up. We use diagnostic tools like a blower door test, manometer (a pressure-measuring gauge), smoke sticks, and thermal imaging cameras to see where your home’s energy efficiency could be...
We had a lot of rain this past summer and we’re seeing a lot of crawlspaces that are still wet. And this is the time of year when the dryer wintertime air should have absorbed the excess moisture from the torrential rain we experienced over the summer. So if you...
It’s that time of year again. Cold nights and cooler temps during the day. New River Valley area residents are remembering the arctic freeze that took place last winter and thinking about preparations needed to prepare for the winter to come. Yes, this is our...
This is a very interesting topic to me, and furthermore, this is a subject that may be of great interest to the many Virginians who own homes with crawl space foundations. Conditioned crawl-spaces have their exterior walls insulated instead of an average home that has...
I’ve loved the look of log homes since I was a kid, and I always wanted to build one. And when I learned about cordwood construction a few years back, I knew a time would come when I would be stacking those logs up and admiring the beauty that this construction...
Should we make the attic a conditioned space? Should we hose it down with several inches of spray foam and close off all the vents, maybe even remove the existing insulation sitting above the ceiling? This is a building science topic of debate on many different levels...