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Home Energy Mini-Audit Checklist

Date:
Family’s Concerns:
□ Cold rooms ___________________________________________________________________
□ Hot rooms ____________________________________________________________________
□ Drafts _______________________
□ Dust ________________________
□ Odors ___________________________________________________
□ Humidity/moisture damage ______________________________________________________
□ Respiratory problems _______________________________________
□ Child or elderly health __________________________________________________________
□ Noisy equipment ______________________________________________________________
□ Other concerns_______________

Utility Usage Overview Electricity Gas Water
$ kWh $ therms $ ccf
Peak mid-winter monthly utility charge id-summer monthly utility charge
Peak seasonal differential (peak season
less baseload)

o Does your home have wall insulation? □ Yes □ No □ Do Not Know
□ Insulate the Walls. If the home does not have wall insulation, it can be retrofitted into existing
walls. To do so, holes must be drilled in the walls, either on the interior or exterior, so you should
assume you will need to repaint as part of the wall insulation project.
o Panel Grit: Do you have photovoltaic panels producing electricity or a solar hot water heating
system? ___
When was the last time the panels were washed? _____________
□ Wash Panels. Wash your solar panels twice each year to improve performance.
o Do you use a timer, power strip, or other method to routinely turn off the power to your audio-
visual equipment? ___ Computer peripherals? ___
□ Turn off peripherals and AV system when not in use. Many computer peripherals and
audio-visual system components draw power even when you have them turned off. A readily-
accessible power-strip can be used to manually turn off the electricity to these devices when you
are not using them. If this would be inconvenient, consider placing a readily-accessible timer on
the power-strip, turning off the electricity to the system during the night time or other times when
you anticipate they will not be in use.

© 2008-2009 Emerson Environmental, LLC Home Energy Mini-Audit Checklist page 2

Heating and Cooling Thermostat Weekdays
schedule o Thermostat type:
Morning Mid-day Evening Night □ Programmable
° F time ° F time ° F time ° F time□ Non-programmable
Heating □ Change Thermostat
Cooling Settings. Try setting your
Weekends thermostat to no more than 68°
Heating F in the winter when you are at
Cooling home and awake, and 55° F in
the winter when you are away or asleep. But if your furnace cannot recover quickly enough
from a deep set-back, it is better to reduce the set-back than to increase furnace size.
□ Pre-Chill During Summer. During the summer, set air conditioner to 82° F when you are
away and 78° F when you are home. On cool summer mornings and evenings, open windows
to pre-cool the home. Close shades on sunny sides of home to avoid solar heat gain.
o Filters:
When was the filter on your heater last replaced or cleaned? _____
When was the filter on your air conditioner last replaced or cleaned? ______
□ Replace or clean your furnace and air conditioner filters every
3-6 months. Use a pleated filter, but not a “high-performance” filter,
as it will add too much static pressure to your air-handling system,
reducing its efficiency. For instance, if you use Filtrete filters, use the
“air cleaning filter” in the red packaging, not the “high performance
filter” in the purple packaging.
o Maintenance
o When was your heater last inspected or serviced? ______
o When was your air conditioner last inspected or serviced? ______
□ Tune up your furnace and air conditioner. Hire an HVAC service to inspect, clean, and
tune your furnace and air conditioner every year or to, to assure they are operating efficiently.
o Heating Ducts:
o Type of duct sealing: □ None □ Duct tape □ Mastic
o Level of HVAC duct insulation:________________
□ Seal and Insulated Your Ducts. Hire an HVAC contractor to use mastic to seal your heat
ducts, air handlers, register boots, and connections between the boots and the floor or wall, and
to insulate the entire duct system as well.

Kitchen
o How many refrigerators do you have? ___ How many stand-alone freezers do you have? ___
□ Eliminate Extra Refrigerators and Freezers. The cost of cooling a spare refrigerator or
freezer is often substantial, especially if the appliance is more than 10 years old.
© 2008-2009 Emerson Environmental, LLC
Home Energy Mini-Audit Checklist page 3

o When were the coils on your refrigerator(s) last cleaned? ______
□ Clean the coils on your refrigerator. If they are accessible, the coils on your refrigerator
should be cleaned off annually to improve the appliance’s efficiency.
o Refrigerator and Freezer settings
□ Freezer temperature should be set to between 0-10º F.
□ Refrigerator temperaturebetween 38-42º F.
o Refrigerator humidity control: □ O.K. – Is turned off already or not applicable
□ Should be turned off, as it is unnecessary in this climate.
o Do you use an air-dry or heat-dry setting on the dish washer?
___ Air dry all year ___ Air dry in summer ___ Heat dry all year
___ Other: __________
□ Air Dry. Use the air-dry function more frequently.
□ Use Economy (if available) or Regular instead of Pot Scrubber for better efficiency.
o Does the home have a hot water circulation pump? ____
If yes, is it demand (push button), timer controlled, or continuous? ________
□ Convert continuous pump to demand-pump, or at least control it with a timer.
Continuous hot water circulation pumps result in substantial energy being lost from hot water
circulated throughout the home. Convert to a push-button on-demand hot water pump, or at
least install a timer to limit the pump circulation to morning and evening times when hot water
is most likely to be used.
o Hot water temperature at tap:
□ Set water heater so temperature at closest tap is 120º F or lower to save energy and avoid
scalding.
o Faucet flow rate: ____ gallons per minute
□ O.K.: 2.5 gpm or less
□ Flow is unnecessarily fast – install flow restrictor of 2.5 gpm or less.
o Hot water lines insulated: □ Yes □ No. Install insulation around all hot water lines.
o Penetrations sealed, inc. exhaust vent:
□ Yes □ No. Seal openings in walls and ceiling:_______________________________.
o Energy Star appliances: □ Yes
□ No. Upgrade to Energy Star, CEE Super-Efficient Home Appliances (www.cee1.org)
now (or, less preferably, when appliances need to be replaced).

© 2008-2009 Emerson Environmental, LLC
Home Energy Mini-Audit Checklist page 4

Bathrooms

Master Hall
Bathroom Bathroom
Faucet Flow (gpm)
Recommend Install Flow Restrictor
(1-2.5 gpm) if current flow is over 2.5 gpm
Shower Flow (gpm)
Recommend Install Low-Flow
Showerhead (2.5 gpm or less) if currently
is over 2.5 gpm
Hot Water Lines Already Insulated
Recommend Insulate Hot Water Lines
Plumbing Penetrations Already Sealed
Recommend Sealing Plumbing
Penetrations
Recommend Toilet Replacement or, less
preferably, Tank Displacement Device if
toilet is over 1.6 gallons per flush
Water leaking from tank to bowl: repair

• Bedroom Area
o Carbon Monoxide detector:
□ Yes □ No. Install CO detector in bedroom area.
o Smoke Alarm: □ Yes
□ No. Install smoke alarm at least in room/area containing furnace and in bedroom area.
o Passive loads: _______________________________________________________________.

Utility/Laundry/Hot Water
o Washer: □ Front-Loading □ Top-Loading
□ Upgrade to Energy Star. When replacing washer, look for an Energy Star rated front-
loading washer, to reduce water use and spin more water out of the laundry, reducing energy
use by dryer.
o What proportion of your laundry loads are washed/rinsed at the following temperatures:
___ Hot/warm ___ Hot/cold ___ Warm/warm ___ Warm/cold ___ Cold/cold
□ Use Cold. Wash more of your loads in cold water, and always rinse in cold
o Dryer
□ Use Moisture Sensor. Use moisture sensing settings to reduce over-drying of clothes.
□ Use “Solar Dryer”. In warm weather, air-dry clothes outdoors to reduce energy use.
o Hot water lines insulated: □ Yes
□ No. Install insulation on all hot water lines and 3’ of cold line closest to water heater.
© 2008-2009 Emerson Environmental, LLC
Home Energy Mini-Audit Checklist page 5

o Water tank insulated: □ Yes □ No. Install water heater insulation.
o Vent & other penetrations sealed: □ Yes
□ No. Seal openings in walls and ceiling:________________________________.

Exterior:
o Air conditioner condenser
clearance: □ OK □ Need two feet of clear space around air conditioning unit
coolant line insulation (on thicker of