Welcome to Fekete Thermal Inspections
Fekete Thermal Inspections provides home energy audit with blower-door, infrared survey, electrical system scan, heating and cooling system analysis in Bangor-Roseto, and surrounding areas such as Lehigh Valley, Pocono Mountains, Bucks, Carbon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Monroe, Northampton and Pike Counties in Pennsylvania, and Western New Jersey.
What does the Home Energy Audit means?
A Home Energy Audit is often the first step in making your home more efficient. An audit can help you assess how much energy your home uses and evaluate what measures you can take to improve efficiency. But remember, audits alone don't save energy. You need to implement the recommended improvements. If you are interested in getting specific recommendations for improving the efficiency of your home, consider contacting a professional Home Energy Auditor. A professional Home Energy Auditor can use a variety of techniques and equipment to determine the energy efficiency of your home. Thorough audits often use equipment such as blower doors, which measure the extent of leaks in the building envelope, and infrared cameras, which reveal hard-to-detect areas of air infiltration and missing insulation.
Fekete Thermal Inspections creates professional documentation about your home to enhance energy efficiency, lower utility bills, and increase comfort.
Process of the Home Energy Audit
Each energy audit will include a blower-door test, a heating-system assessment, a base load audit, a health-and-safety evaluation and recommended building shell air sealing and insulation retrofits.
The audit takes about 2-3 hours and starts with a visual building shell inspection. We discuss with the homeowner the problems and concerns about the home. We measure air leakage true the blower-door test, we take infrared pictures, analyze flue gas on combustion appliances, and calculate Steady-State-Efficiency. Under worst-case depressurization test we check spillage, measure natural draft pressure and pressure difference between combustion appliance zone and outdoors. We perform gas leak test.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) sets minimum ventilation rates to ensure acceptable indoor air quality in homes.
The U.S.Department of Energy now recommends that a thermographic scan be done before purchasing a home, even on new homes.
To Do List Before The Energy Audit
- Close all the windows and doors on the building shell – we will do it before the audit starts
- Open all the doors inside of the thermal boundary – we will do it before the audit starts
- Clean out the ash and seal the fireplace (close the dumper and the front door of the fireplace if applicable) – owner require to do it before the audit, we will check it
- Turn off the heating and water heater system (only the pilot can be on), except if it is electrical – we will do it before the audit starts
- Keep away the kids and pests from the blower door through out the audit
- Make the refrigerator electrical connection accessible for the watt meter test – owner require to do it before the audit starts
What is Thermography?
Thermography means "writing with heat", just like photography means writing with light". The picture that is generated is called thermal image.
Where Can We Utilize Thermal Scan Inspection?
- Thermal heat loss inspections for buildings, plants, facilities, refineries
- Moisture contamination evaluations in buildings, condos, plants facilities
- Concrete integrity inspections
- Locate missing or damaged insulation
- Identify air leakage energy losses
- Locate radiant heating wires or pipes
- Concrete water heated floor inspections for leaks and temperature distribution
- Flat roof leak detection for buildings, plants, facilities
- Identify water damaged portions of a roof quickly and accurately
- Document problems before the warranty expires
- Furnace insulation inspections
- Heat exchanger quality and efficiency evaluation
- Refinery process line insulation loss or leak detection
- Flame propagation explosion analysis
- Detects insulation leaks in refrigeration equipment
- Heat ventilation air conditioning equipment evaluation
- Mechanical bearing inspections
- Scan the exterior of boiler for refectory damage or locate warmer areas where potential refectory damage may occur
- Electrical system scan to check for overloaded circuits or breakers
Why is Thermography so Useful?
- It is non contact: We are only looking at naturally emitted radiation that will be there, whether we can see it or not.
- It is two dimensional: The image allows for excellent overview of the target. With an image I can actually find where the problems are, or see which points are of special interest.
- It is real time: Many dangerous situations would have been discovered too late.