THE PROCESS

BLOWER DOOR TEST + ENERGY INSPECTION

As a proud participant in the Wisconsin Focus on Energy New Homes program, Bay Lakes Builders is proud to offer testing and certification for each of their qualifying new homes.  As part of the certification process, one inspection is completed after the insulation is complete.  The final inspection is done after the home is substantially complete.  During this final inspection, a blower door test is conducted to create a negative pressurization in the home.  This allows a reading to be taken measuring the building's air tightness.  Air tightness is the leading factor in a home's energy usage (or lack thereof) for heating and cooling.  Besides the blower door test, the third-party energy inspector also tests and verifies the following:

• All mechanical ventilation equipment (range hood, bath fans, etc.) is tested to ensure proper operation
• All space heating equipment, water heating equipment, and fireplaces are verified to be in compliance for proper exhaust of combustion vapors to eliminate any possible backdraft effect.
• Sump basins and plumbing stub-ins are verified to be properly sealed.

Once the final testing is complete, the energy rater completes the certification process and within the coming weeks mails out the test results and certification documents.  You can view the results of some of Bay Lakes recently Focus on Energy certifies homes by clicking the button below.