Find out where the money leaks out
Summer bills that make you wince have specific causes: duct leaks, thin insulation, air infiltration, aging equipment. An audit measures which ones are yours and ranks the fixes by payback.
The straight version
Every August, North Texas homeowners open electric bills that read like car payments and wonder where it’s all going. The honest answer differs house by house: one home hemorrhages through leaky ducts, another through an attic with insulation flattened to nothing, a third through an AC quietly running at two-thirds of its rated efficiency. Guessing which one is yours leads to the classic mistake, spending thousands on the wrong fix while the real leak keeps billing you.
An energy audit replaces the guessing: duct leakage evaluated, attic insulation depth and condition checked, air infiltration paths identified, equipment efficiency measured against its rating, and usage patterns reviewed. The deliverable is a ranked list, what each fix costs, what it saves annually, and the payback order that gets you the most relief per dollar. Some of the best items on that list are routinely cheap: sealing, a thermostat strategy, a duct correction.
Timing matters more in this trade than most people expect. Spring is the honest window for cooling work, before the first triple-digit week exposes every marginal capacitor and low charge in the county at once. Fall belongs to heat: combustion checks, heat exchanger inspections, and the repairs that are cheap in October and miserable in January. If the calendar lets you choose, choose the shoulder season, and if it does not, the emergency line answers either way.
What the audit measures
- Duct leakage and conditioned-air loss
- Attic insulation depth and coverage
- Air infiltration at doors, windows, and penetrations
- Equipment efficiency against nameplate
- Thermostat strategy and usage patterns
- Ranked fixes with honest payback math
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How we approach it
We’re an HVAC company, and the audit stays honest anyway: when the biggest item on your list is attic insulation or window sealing, work we don’t sell, that’s still what the report says. The ranked list is only worth something if it’s ranked by your payback, not by our product line.
Efficiency work only counts when it survives contact with the utility bill. That is why everything in this category starts from measurements, blower door logic, duct leakage, static pressure, runtime data, and ends with a weather-adjusted comparison against your baseline. Some of the best-value fixes are unglamorous: sealing, balancing, controls set up correctly. The glamorous ones get recommended only when your numbers justify them.
Financing through Synchrony and Wisetek is there when the timing is hard, and the emergency line reaches a real person 24/7. Serving Midlothian and the four-county southern DFW footprint: Ellis, Johnson, Dallas, and Tarrant counties. See finished work in the gallery.
What a visit looks like
- You call or send the form and describe what the system is doing. You get an honest arrival window on the phone.
- Jimmy diagnoses with instruments, shows you what he found, and quotes a firm price before any work starts.
- You decide. Repair-first is the default when the math favors it, and nobody here earns commission on findings.
- The work gets done, verified, and explained. If something we did isn’t right, we come back and make it right.
Good to know before you call: the diagnostic visit carries a plain flat charge that gets told to you when you book, and it comes off the job if you go ahead with the work. After-hours emergencies cost more and the terms get stated on the phone before a truck rolls, never discovered on an invoice. And if what you describe sounds like something you can safely check yourself, a tripped float switch, a clogged filter, a breaker, we will say so and save you the visit.
Home Energy Audit Services, plainly answered
Something more specific going on? Call (214) 717-3959 and describe it. You’ll talk to the owner, not a call center.
What does an energy audit cost and is it worth it?
It costs a service visit and routinely finds savings several times that in the first year. Call for the current price, and if we find nothing actionable, you’ll at least know your house is already running tight, which is worth something too.
What’s usually the biggest energy waster in DFW homes?
Duct leakage and thin attic insulation trade first place, with aging AC efficiency close behind. Every house distributes the blame differently, which is exactly why measuring beats assuming.
Will you just try to sell me a new AC?
No. The report ranks by payback, and plenty of audits conclude the equipment is fine while the ducts or attic are the story. When equipment genuinely is the biggest lever, you’ll see the actual math that says so, and the decision stays yours.
How long does an audit take?
Two to three hours on site for a typical home, then the written report with rankings and prices. It’s a real assessment, not a walk-through with a clipboard and a pitch.
Can an audit lower my bill without buying new equipment?
Usually yes. Sealing, thermostat strategy, filter and airflow corrections, and small duct repairs are cheap items with immediate effect. The audit’s job is finding the cheap wins first, then letting you decide about the bigger ones.
Where we do this work: Midlothian and the whole southern DFW footprint, Ellis County (Waxahachie, Red Oak, Ennis, Ferris, Ovilla, Maypearl, Palmer, Italy, Milford) · Johnson County (Burleson, Cleburne, Joshua, Alvarado, Venus, Godley, Keene, Rio Vista, Grandview) · Dallas County (Dallas, Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Duncanville, Lancaster, Wilmer, Hutchins, Balch Springs) · Tarrant County (Fort Worth, Arlington, Mansfield, Kennedale, Forest Hill, Crowley, Everman, Benbrook). Every community links to its own local page from the service-areas map.
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