Tulsa Home Energy Analysis

Morris Heat and Air offers Home Energy Analysis, often called an Energy Audit, to residents and business owners in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  One of the first steps in diagnosing a home's deficiencies is to conduct an Energy Audit.  Aside from this energy audit, it is also very helpful to conduct an ACCA Manual J and an ACCA Manual D systems and duct load calculation.  An Energy Audit and Load Calculation help us to determine what size your air conditioner and furnace need to be and help us determine what will be required to seal your home and duct system and insulate your home correctly.  Once we know these things, we can develop a strategy for your home so that, when implemented, all deficiencies can be addressed at one time and fixed correctly without guesswork that, often times, causes more work than necessary.  The International Energy Conservation Code lays out the guidelines for maximum allowable leakage on homes and duct systems.  These guidelines, or standards, are our main focus at Morris Heat and Air.  Aside from the guidelines laid out by the IECC, we also follow ACCA Standards when designing and installing HVAC Systems and duct systems and BPI Standards that also address maximum allowable leakage on homes and duct systems.  Our home energy audits consist of a blower door test which will help us to determine where leaks exist within your home or business.  We will also conduct a duct blast to determine how leaky your ducts are.  If your duct system is very leaky, it is sometimes necessary to conduct a pressure pan test to better determine what ducts are leaking more than others.  Our pressure pan testing is done in conjunction with a blower door test.  This same pressure pan test can also help us to strategize home leakage repairs for people on a tight budget.  We can pinpoint the areas of your home that yield the highest levels of leakage and focus our attention on fixing those areas prior to fixing less problematic areas of leakage.  When necessary, we can also conduct a fan flow test for your bathroom exhaust vents as well as your kitchen exhaust system and compare our findings to the BPI Standard that sets the minimum requirements for fan flow for exhaust systems.  Insulation levels are a high priority to us, because they effect an air conditioner and heater's ability to condition the air within your home.  Our Home Energy Analysis will include a detailed inspection of all insulation levels which will include documentation of materials used to insulate your home and their R-Value.  Based on our findings we can make recommendations to plan for removal and installation of insulation on your home.  Last but not least, we want to ensure your safety on all levels when preparing your home to be sealed.  Because a sealed home is unable to exchange large amounts of air to the outdoors, it is very important that we test all gas appliances within the home for proper combustion and proper installation.  Natural Draft Combustion appliances within a sealed home can pose an imminent threat to people and animals within the home if they begin to backdraft.  It is very important that any combustion appliances, especially natural draft combustion appliances, are sealed from the living space.  A sealed home and sealed duct system mixed with the proper insulation levels within your home ensure that the air within your home is conditionable.   When we align your home to the highest levels of standards that exist, your air conditioner and furnace become second nature.  Deficiencies within a home, if addressed and repaired, offer a lifetime of energy savings whereas, heaters and air conditioners do not.  Let us help you and your family focus on a more permanent solution to home comfort by diagnosing all deficiencies within your home.  If you own a home or business in Tulsa Oklahoma, you will benefit tremendously by allowing us to diagnose and repair your home or business's deficiencies.  Call us today to learn more about our Home Energy Analysis package.  As always, if we do the work, the price of the load calculation and energy audit is applied towards the repair cost.