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Contact WEC: Fax: 1-307-721-2955
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WEATHERIZATION PROCESS The Weatherization process begins with an energy audit. The audit team inspects your home inside and outside, including crawl spaces, attics, and furnace room(s). The audit team checks for insulation, health and safety problems and tests your indoor air quality. The audit team interviews the client about the home and how they live in the home. The audit team will perform combustion analysis and performance testing on all fossil-fuel (i.e., natural gas, LP) burning appliances in the home, including the cook stove, furnace, and water heater. The audit team then performs a blower door test to determine areas where air leakage occurs and the ratio of cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air movement through the home. There is minimum standard the ratio must meet to consider the unit energy efficient, and the audit team keeps this in mind during the diagnostic testing. The audit team photographs and diagrams your home, and educates the client on energy conservation. The audit team brings this information back to the office, evaluates it, and enters the information into a computer program called the "NEAT Audit" which prints out the work needed and the savings to investment ratio. This report determines the most cost-effective energy saving measures to perform. The client may point out certain issues during the audit, but the decision as to the work to be done is made by the audit team based on the results from the NEAT Audit. The client does not ultimately decide what work will be performed. The audit team can't tell the client everything that will be done until the computer analysis is complete. The audit team designs a detailed work order of what will be done and in which areas (e.g., insulation, air infiltration, HVAC systems, health and safety, and window/door repair or replacement). After the audit team develops the plan, office manager then assigns the work to the weatherization crew who handle the insulation, furnace tune-ups, and other weatherization measures. Some work may be subcontracted. Each subcontractor schedules its own appointment. Typically, windows are not a high priority for replacement. After all work has been completed, the audit team returns to perform a final inspection, which includes another blower door test to determine your air leakage reduction and to ensure that the unit now has an acceptable CFM ratio. The audit team checks the quality of the work, obtains client feedback, and educates the client on the work that has been done. Some homes may be randomly selected for an additional quality assurance inspection. If you have been approved for the program and are currently on our waiting list, we can help you with certain crisis needs such as a nonfunctioning furnace as soon as possible. This help will not affect your position on the waiting list for the remainder of the Weatherization work. Broken windows, leaking roofs, frozen pipes, and nonfunctioning water heaters will not be addressed as a crisis measure. |
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