Home Energy Audits — Yuma & Yuma County

A lot of homeowners picture an "energy audit" as someone walking through with a clipboard and guessing. Ours isn't that. We run the same instrumented tests used to qualify homes for utility rebate programs — a thermal imaging pass, a calibrated blower-door depressurization test, a separate duct leakage test, and a physical attic inspection with insulation depth measured at multiple points, not just near the access hatch.

Each test answers a different question. Thermal imaging shows where heat is actually moving through the building envelope right now. The blower-door test puts a single, comparable number on how much outside air the whole house is exchanging with a 120°F afternoon. The duct test isolates whether the HVAC system is losing conditioned air before it ever reaches a room — a separate failure mode from envelope leakage that a quick walkthrough audit typically skips entirely.

We run all four together because they catch different problems. A house can have a reasonably tight envelope and still waste 20–30% of its conditioned air through leaky attic ductwork sitting in a 150°F attic all summer. Another house can have perfectly sealed ducts and still lose the fight through an under-insulated attic floor. An audit that measures only one of these gives you half the picture — and half the picture is how homeowners end up paying for insulation in the wrong place.

At the end of the visit you get a written report, not a verbal impression. It documents your blower-door number, duct leakage results, thermal-imaging findings by room, and measured attic insulation depth against the R-38 code floor and R-49 recommended target for 2026 work. Where the property is a manufactured or park-model home, the report addresses skirting, underbelly insulation, and roof-over condition specifically, since those assemblies fail differently than a standard site-built attic.

We then rank the findings into a prioritized fix list: what's costing you the most conditioned air right now, what's a moderate-priority item, and what can reasonably wait. Not every finding needs to happen in the same visit or the same year — the point of the list is helping you sequence spending, not pushing every line item at once.

If you decide to move forward with install work, the audit becomes the starting point for your quote instead of a separate expense that gets thrown away. We don't re-measure your attic from scratch or re-run a blower-door test you already paid for — the numbers carry straight into the project scope, and the audit fee typically rolls into the install price rather than stacking on top of it.

That audit-to-install path also keeps your APS rebate paperwork and any WACOG eligibility documentation consistent, since both trace back to the same visit. For the most common next step after an audit, see our attic insulation page — it's where most prioritized fix lists start, and where the R-38-to-R-49 numbers from your report turn into an actual install spec.