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No, unless the house was tested and verified, there is no assurance. Some of EPA’s protocols do not even meet minimum Florida energy code requirements (specifically Building Option Packages)! Also, how do you know if your home is energy-efficient it if has never been tested…

If your house was rated and tested, you should receive a report with your address, signed by a certified Energy Rater, with a signed financial disclosure form. The report looks similar to this:

No, your house may have been “sampled” under one of EPA’s policies. If your house has been sampled, only 1 out of 7 houses in your subdivision may have been actually inspected and tested!

No, Energy Raters Plus services regarding mold is to diagnose the building conditions and analyze the reasons why the mold is present for preventative purposes. Unless those conditions are understood and rectified, there is a high probability that the mold will return. Mold remediators collect…

An Energy Rating is a quantitative report that contains as one of the inputs, a duct leakage number. A Smoke Test is a visual method to identify and correct failures in the duct system, without the need to quantify a number. That number will be…

Nothing. An Energy Rating is a report that is one of the predictors of the energy uses in your house. The true indicator of the energy efficiency of your house is your monthly electric bill. It is hoped that since an Energy Rating has been…