Speaker: This home is wasting energy and creating unnecessarily high bills for it's owners. An energy assessment will help determine where energy is being wasted, and offer recommendations that could safe hundreds of dollars annually on utilities.
Cliff Genereaux: This house current rates 55 on the EnerGuide Rating System. By implementing the recommendations it could rate to 72. This would qualify home owners up to $10,000 in federal and provincial grants from the government with the ecoENERGY program.
Speaker: To qualify for the ecoENERGY Retrofit-Homes program, you must first have an energy evaluation of your home. This can be done by one of AmeriSpec's certified energy advisers.
Cliff Genereaux: To determine what a home's energy is, a thorough basement-to-attic assessment is done. This is also referred to as pre-retrofit evaluation.
Speaker: Home owners must carry out specific improvements in order to qualify for a grant. The post-retrofit evaluation must take place within 18 months or by March 31st 2011, in the subject to available funding.
Cliff Generaux: Once your energy upgrades are completed, you need to have a post-retrofit evaluation. At that point you will be given a new EnerGuide label.
Speaker: Only homes that have both pre and post retrofit evaluations from a licensed energy adviser are illegible for grants. The grant amount is based on each of the recommended retrofits we have completed, and the relative impacts the retrofits have on the efficiency of your home.
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