Want to know how your home can save you money?
Often the hardest part about home improvements is knowing where to start. $ave Energy NEK is a group of volunteers from several local towns that are willing to support their communities, their neighbors – YOU – to improve energy efficiency. We are here to listen to your needs, help answer your questions, and direct you to trusted knowledgeable professionals that you can work with to take the first step.
3 Home Weatherization Tours, Saturday, May 4th
Want to find out what it takes to finance and carry out home weatherization improvements?
Meet at the Craftsbury Town Hall @1 pm for NETO presentation
Home tours @1:30 pm, 2:15 pm, 3:30 pm
Full details below.
Sponsored by the Craftsbury Energy Committee and $ave Energy NEK
Contact: [email protected]
For more information contact your local representative and click on the image above for helpful resources.
Old & New Home Weatherization Tours:
1 pm, 2:15 pm, and 3:30 pm.
Sponsored by the Craftsbury Energy Committee and SaveEnergyNEK
Featured presenters:
– NETO, income-qualifying free weatherization and appliances
Website: Vtneto.org Email: [email protected]
– Mark Snyder of Vt. Energy Audits Vtenergyaudits.com
– Matt Moody, energy efficient home contractor [email protected] 802-696-2147
Note, the first NETO weatherization presentation is for all homes: homes with foundations, Trailer Homes and renters.
1 pm is the first presentation on the Federal Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) by NETO at the Craftsbury Town Hall, 85 S. Craftsbury Rd, Craftsbury, and then a 1:30 follow up basement tour of their weatherization work next door at the 150 year old Silva home, 67 S. Craftsbury Rd., Craftsbury.
NETO will talk about their free weatherization approach and applications on old homes. For the Silva home they decreased the air leakage in the home by 37% by spray foaming the upper basement walls, dense-pack cellulose in the walls, blown cellulose insulation in the attic, weather stripping on exterior doors, rebuilding and air sealing the bulkhead door and the attic hatch, repaired and installed a chimney clean out, re-vented the dryer, and installing a heat pump space heater and a heat pump water heater.
Along with their offering of other free appliances, the NETO presentation will also show you how you can income-qualify for free weatherization.
NETO Income Eligibility Guidelines: Number of People in the Household:
1: $55,050 2: $62,900 3: $70,750 4: $78,600 5: $84,900
Below is a link to the NETO application: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dkgv6iWZmH2POBAZ4YGnry8y7Us-JvBM/view?usp=sharing
An involved application, but you can set up an appointment with an Energy Committee member who can come to your home and help with the application. Just let us know!
The scope of NETO’s work on the Silva house can be viewed at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sTjPwmr-jAGaqnNlokt0mCKRQhcxM3n45CrYzzTkxB4/edit
2:15 pm is the start of the second tour at the Hanson home, 95 S. Craftsbury Rd., Craftsbury. This is an Efficiency Vt. incentive-qualifying home. Eff. Vt.’s weatherization incentives are the best they have ever been, $4,000 minimum to $9,500 maximum.
Mark Snyder, Efficiency Vt.-Certified Auditor, will show the benefits of a blower door test (air is pulled out of the home and quantified with a big fan placed in a doorway). Mark and the owners will also talk about the insulation and air sealing applications and benefits in the house, ventilation and moisture concerns, and the priority of the work done.
3:30 pm is the start of the third tour at Matt Moody and Paula Davidson’s new, energy efficient, 1200 sq. ft., timber frame home and accompanying timber frame tiny home at 251 Mountain Hill Rd., Craftsbury Common.
Matt is a contractor and built the houses himself. Some of the applications of the two houses are: double wall construction, modified timber frame, ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms), recycled 3” foam board, Zip R6 plywood, Rockwool insulation, Lunos fans for heat recovery ventilation, both homes are off-grid, LP gas heat for the tiny house, heat for the main house has a wood stove using less than 1 cord of firewood per year.
Their full house specifications can be found at this link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f6XVMa0IjQ5qN28KFivrxwJIs9080jA7qApfAhqmEhY/edit
Information about SaveEnergyNEK is here: https://greensborofreelibrary.org/save-energy-nek/
Quick links to NETO, Eff. Vt. incentives, and weatherization are here: https://linktr.ee/saveenergynek
Follow our events on the Craftsbury Energy Committee Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069323105070
If you have any questions please contact: [email protected]
Learn more at https://linktr.ee/saveenergynek