This is the second part of our Home energy audit basics series , our first part in this section dealt with an introduction to Home Energy Audit. Now we are going to see how to save money by performing a home energy audit yourself.

Home energy audit not only makes you familiar about the energy consumption of your home but also paves way to minimize the cost of utilities for a life time. While the process would lead you to a money saving path, you can save some more money by adoption ‘ Do it Yourself’ Home energy Audit. Here is how you perform it.

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A few days back i had posted an article on reasons to get a home energy audit done. Then i started wondering, how many of us really know what we need to know about home energy audit. Till i posted that article even i wasn’t completely aware of what it was all about. I am sure there are millions out there like me.So i am going to start posting on basics of home energy audit and how you can save money by making use of this facility.

Today we are going to take a brief look on what home energy audit is. To put it in a simple manner, it is the first step you could take to know the energy consumption of your house. This way you would know how to make it more energy efficient. Audits can spot problems in your home when corrected can save you a lot of money. You would also know how efficiently your heating and cooling system works. You could learn though an audit how to save electricity and hot water.

Home energy audit can either be done by yourself or by a professional who would use equipments like blower doors(measures leaks in the building) and infra red cameras (to spot areas of missing insulation and air infiltration).

If you find this information useful then let me tell you, i have a lot more coming in future about home auditing.

If you are a regular reader of 8000credit, you must be familiar with the posts that tells you how to save money on travel, clothes, electricity bills, phone bills and television bills. Today there is an addition to this list. I am going to tell you how to save money on Energy and have a comfortable living while contributing to the ‘Go Green’ movement.

What will you gain out of home energy audit?

1. Save money on utility bills for all years to come
2. Learn to make your home feel comfortable during warm and cold seasons without having to spend a lot
3. Learn how your heating system works and why it doesn’t work sometimes
4. Learn to keep your home cool without the aid of air conditioning.
5. Less burden on earth
6. Spot the energy vampires of your house and learn to slay them effectively and save money in turn
7. Be sure about the safety of the air you breathe everyday

While this is just an attempt to creative an awareness about energy audit, more on this will be discussed in detail in upcoming posts.