Address: 5314 Bardwell Street
Riverside, CA 92506
Property Details:
Victoria Neighborhood
Built in 1964
4 bed, 2 bath
2,410 Square Feet
This home is the perfect candidate for an energy efficiency overhaul!
- Practically NO insulation
- Nasty old leaky duct work
- Feel drafts in the living room and master bedroom
- Front bed rooms received no airflow - stuffy and nasty
- Tons of recessed can lights and attic penetrations
- Old single pane windows
2 inches of Insulation Moldy & Dusty Return Box
We performed a preliminary walk and audit. The results would make you cringe!
- Ducts leaking more than 25% of the air passing through the system. The previous owners were paying to air condition their attic! And sucking polluted air into their system!
- Air Changes per Hour at 50 Pascal's of pressure was nearly 20! A tight house is 5. That means this home has 400% of the recommended air infiltration. Another way of looking at it; the home is losing 400% more air than it should when heating/cooling their home. This is also the casue of the severe drafts in the home.
We are going to make the following improvements
- R-38 attic Insulation
- New dual pane windows
- Complete sealing of air handler, duct system, & registers
- Install return box
- Insulate hot water heater
- Seal all attic penetrations
- Caulk around doors/windows and plumbing penetrations as appropriate
- Upgrade every light bulb to a CFL
- Install low flow shower heads in the showers
We should be able to reduce the baseline energy consumption for this home by at least 25%. Be sure to follow our blog to watch the progress.
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