Sustain Word

As a home performance contractor, it is great to see the concept become more popular and almost to the point of becoming a commodity.  When we first started offering Home Performance with Energy Star services over 6 years ago, we had to explain what home performance meant, not everyone else is doing that for us.  We were the first remodelor in the program and the market was very young.

While I am happy to see it becoming more popular, I am worried that many companies are offering this as an add on to the services instead of making it standard.  The other issue that I see is HVAC, insulation and general contracting companies selling home performance ONLY from the point of view of the product they sell.

That’s is how I came up with the paper scissors rock approach to Home Performance.  As a kid, the game “Paper/ Scissors/ Rock” was played to see if you could guess which item that you opponent would select and hopefully, you would select the item that would trump theirs.

Scissors- would cut paper- would beat rock- which would crush scissors- which would cut paper…

So how does this apply to Home Performance?

Insulation- has a faster ROI than HVAC- which should be sized based on insulation- which cannot be installed with certain types of HVAC- which must be altered for better insulation- which should be installed before adding solar power- which is a great option for heating water- which is the 2nd leading use of power in the house- which can be reduced if you use less hot water…

As you can see, nobody really wins in home performance if not installed properly, they all must be designed to work together.

Keep in mind:

An HVAC guy makes money based on equipment sales

An insulation guy makes money selling and installing insulation

A solar installer make money by creating power for you

However a home performance contractor gets satisfaction out of a finely tuned house that they designed so you can have insulation and HVAC engineered to work with each other and other options that are designed to make your home more comfortable and energy efficient.  You will also tells your friends more often about a home performance contractor verse a single product installer.

Bottom line.

It’s not paper/ scissors OR rock it’s: HVAC, insulation, AND moisture management- The complete Home Performance package.

Fresh World the performance division of The Hoots Group is Atlanta’s leading home performance contractor with hundreds of improvement and thousand of assessments to date.

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