About FEKETE Thermal Inspections
Szabi is one of only a few Weatherization Specialist, certified BPI Building Analyst Professional and a certified Level I Thermographer in the area who use the latest version of the Weatherization Standards and Field Guide for Pennsylvania. He is also currently working with the Weatherization Assistance Program in Monroe County. He established his company because he believes that people have to know how they can upgrade their homes, increase their energy efficiency rate and reduce utility bills to use less energy.
Started in 2007, Fekete Thermal Inspections is using the latest in weatherization equipment to help home owners identify problems or potential problems in their homes or business. His main goal is to educate the homeowners as part of the Weatherization Assistance Programs, how they can improve their energy rating and save money, and isn't that what you want more money in your pocket?
We create an independent home energy audit using the Weatherization Standards and Field Guide for Pennsylvania, 2009 International Residential Codes and 2009 International Energy Conservation Codes. We will not sell you anything or try to change your existing systems. Our job is to show and explain to you how you can save energy and money. We create a report with our priority list, including our professional recommendations and all the recorded measurements. The final choice is always in the homeowner's hand.
What We Are Doing
Home Energy Audit
With a calibrated blower door, watt meter, combustion analyzer and the newest infrared technology we are measuring, calculating and recording seasonal- and base loads. We also find home air leaks, analyze heating and cooling systems, and look for temperature differences on the target areas to find missing insulation and identify the source of air leaks. These temperature differences show the auditor and the home owner the possibility of energy loss thru the existing building shell, duct system or hot water system. For example with this technology we can calculate heating load or input rating, seasonal heat loss, Minimum Ventilation Guideline and kWh usage. We can see missing insulation, air and water leaks, overloaded electrical circuits. We can also detect malfunctioning heating, cooling and hot water systems. We are also able to measure steady-state efficiency (SSE) and calculate saving-to-investment ratio (SIR).
We record the findings and analyze every measurement.
Within 5 business days after the energy audit every home owner will get printed recommendation or complete work order for repairs based on test results (includes a priority list for future improvements, blower-door test analysis, steady-state-efficiency test, CO test) and a CD with the infrared pictures were taken.
Our equipment
FLIR T400 Infrared Camera
Our camera is the T-400 from FLIR. The features of this camera are wider than a regular home inspector B-series infra camera. This equipment is perfect to make infrared scanning on commercial and residential buildings, and also on high temperature units, for example engines, motors, bearings, electrical appliances, power substations, production lines etc. This camera temperature range is between -8F to 2192F. It has a High Thermal Sensitivity for Maximum Temperature Accuracy. The camera can make Thermal fusion (merging of visible light and IR image), and FLIR fusion (picture in picture -PIP- resizable and movable) and lot of other functions. Our software is the latest version of the Reporter 8.3 software, which creates professionally analyzed reports.
Minneapolis blower door
We are using Minneapolis blower door, pressure pan, DG-700 pressure and flow gauge with Tectite air tightness test analysis software to analyze the air leakage and the duct system on your home. It measures house pressure and airflow from 11 CFM to 6300 CFM.
Fieldpiece HVAC Guide Tester
Our Fieldpiece HVAC Guide is a perfect usefull tool to analyse CO, O2, CO2 in the flue gases of your combustion appliances (boiler, water heater, stove, dryer) and calculate Steady-State Efficiency (SSE).
HVAC Load Calculations & Sizing software
HVAC-Calc sofware is our professional heating-coolind load calculator program.
Using these equipments together with our knowledge, we have created a professional service for our costumers.
We Are Fully Insured