Expertise

The professional who conducts the audit will have all the tools and techniques necessary to give you an accurate assessment. But the personal touch cannot be underestimated. Your trained professional will have years of experience in assessing a home and finding common problem areas.

In addition, he will take the time to talk to you about how you use your home, and he will show you key ways to boost your energy efficiency, such as lowering your water heater’s temperature setting and changing your air filter regularly.

Tools

An energy-efficiency technician will then conduct a formal inspection. This process includes a visual evaluation of your home’s interior and exterior, as well as a thermographic scan and a blower door test.

• Thermographic scan – Using a camera that goes over your home with infrared technology, your inspector will be able to see areas where air leakage and thermal losses occur. Able to detect and measure the temperatures of your home, the infrared camera will see cool areas, which show up as white on the camera, along with warm areas, revealed as black on the camera. In this way, the results will show where insulation is lacking.
• Blower door test – This device connects to your home’s exterior door. It uses a fan to draw air out of your home, which will pressurize it to reveal air leaks. This test is often done in combination with the infrared camera, because air leaks will show up as black streaks on the infrared camera.

With a professional energy evaluation, you'll be able to target inefficiencies in home performance and make improvements to increase comfort and savings. In Middle Tennessee, contact Roscoe Brown Heating & Cooling & Insulation for more information.

Energy Experts is a comprehensive home performance and energy assessment program for Carrier® Factory Authorized Dealers. The program will help consumers be more comfortable in their homes and business, reduce home energy consumption and save money on utility bills.

Carrier Energy Experts will conduct home performance energy audits that typically analyze a variety of factors within the home, including the heating and cooling system, air flow, the home envelope (roof, windows, doors, insulation, etc.), and provide solutions to improve on the overall efficiency of your home or business.

As part of the Energy Experts program, the Carrier 360 Degree whole home energy audit includes a six-step assessment of the home, including inspection, testing, analysis, recommendations, resolution and results on the HVAC system, air filtration/distribution and home envelope. Carrier Energy Experts will utilize state-of-the-art technology for the energy audit, such as thermal imaging cameras, blower door testing equipment or static pressure gauges. Following the audit, consumers are provided with steps to improve on home performance, through adjustments to home energy systems, including repair, upgrades or replacement of the heating and cooling and air filtration/distribution systems as well as the home or business envelope.

Carrier Energy Experts can provide Tullahoma, Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee business and homeowners with solutions that address the energy efficiency of the whole home or business, identify areas where you could be losing valuable energy and provide a prioritized list of ways you can save on your energy costs.  

At Roscoe Brown, our experienced professionals are well-equipped to give you a precise home or commercial energy audit. We offer rebates and promotions from our trusted heating and air conditioning manufacturers, including Carrier. To schedule an appointment, call toll free 1-888-MY-ROSCOE (1-888-697-6726).

 The Air Distribution System: The ducts should be sized and designed to distribute the amount of airflow the air conditioning and heating system produces. If a homeowner upgrades their equipment, but the house has old ducts, the duct system will not allow the equipment to meet its designed efficiency.

Refrigerant Lines: If you are upgrading your air conditioning and heating system to a 13 SEER or higher, the refrigerant lines should be replaced. Without replacing undersized Freon lines, a high efficiency unit will operate at a lower efficiency level.

Installation: Efficiency is only achieved through proper installation. Design manuals must be carefully followed to deliver its operating capacity. An installer must also understand system design, airflow design, how to achieve maximum capacity and how to achieve maximum airflow delivery.  All Roscoe Brown technicians follow manual installation instructions and are factory trained.

At Roscoe Brown, our experienced professionals are well-equipped to give you a precise home and commercial air conditioning unit size assessment. We can answer any and all of your cooling capacity questions as well as offer rebates and promotions from our trusted heating and air conditioning manufacturers. To schedule an appointment, call toll free 1-888-MY-ROSCOE (1-888-697-6726).

A ton of cooling is now defined as delivering 12,000 BTU/hour of cooling. BTU is short for British Thermal Unit, which is a measure unit for heating or cooling energy. Usually, an air conditioning unit in a smaller Tullahoma, Murfreesboro or Nashville, Tennessee home will use about two tons and a unit used in a larger home would be about five tons.

Air conditioners generally range from 5,500 BTU per hour to 14,000 BTU per hour. For example, a typical window air conditioner might be rated at 10,000 BTU, but a typical 2,000-square-foot Tennessee house or business might need a 5-ton or 60,000 BTU per hour air conditioning system to perform properly and maximize comfort.

At Roscoe Brown, our professionals are well-equipped to give you a precise home and commercial air conditioning unit size assessment. We can answer any and all of your cooling capacity questions as well as offer rebates and promotions from our trusted heating and air conditioning manufacturers. To schedule an appointment, call toll free 1-888-MY-ROSCOE (1-888-697-6726).

• WARM WEATHER: Heat pumps work like air conditioners, extracting heat from inside of the home and transferring it to the outdoor air through a condensing process.
  
  
• COLD WEATHER: The process is reversed and heat is collected from the outdoor air and transferred inside your home. The pump pulls the heat from the outdoors and sends it inside to warm your home, using a similar process a refrigerator would. When there is not enough heat in the outside air to meet the demand of the thermostat setting, an electric heater supplements the outdoor air to warm the home to the desired temperature.

Furnaces turn fossil fuel or electricity into heat, while heat pumps collect heat that already exists by means of its refrigeration cycle. A heat pump will produce two to three times more heat than the energy it uses. In other words, heat pumps save you money!

A heat pump can also be an effective add-on option to use in addition to an existing gas furnace. With a dual-fuel system, the two systems share the heating load but never function at the same time. Each system operates when it is most cost-effective; thus, keeping your home warm in winter and cool in the summer, while saving you major dollars in utility bills.  

If you have any questions regarding how a heating pump can help you save money, feel free to schedule an appointment by calling toll free 1-888-MY-ROSCOE (1-888-697-6726).

Here are several factors to consider before making a decision:

1. The cost to repair versus the cost of purchase and installation.
2. The extent of the energy inefficiency of the old unit.
3. Some units’ repair parts may have been discontinued or are soon to be unavailable in the market.
4. The time that it will take to recover the cost difference between repairing and replacing, considering that older units use up to 50% more fuel/electricity than new high efficiency units.
5. Is another breakdown expected in the near future or is the repair going to keep the unit running for a long period of time?
6. Consider the benefits expected from the new unit; such as tax credits and/or rebates.
   
   

If you want to schedule a routine maintenance, repair or replace your air conditioning equipment; our local Nashville, Murfreesboro and Tullahoma, Tennessee Roscoe Brown dealers can provide a load calculation for your home or business to ensure that you have the proper sized unit. If you have any questions, or would like to schedule an appointment us toll free at 1-888-MY-ROSCOE (1-888-697-6726).

 Ms. Yvonne Summers is a resident of Murfreesboro and is very excited about being a homeowner! She applied in the fall of 2010 and was accepted in the Habitat program by January 2011.  Once accepted, she immediately started attending the Homeowner Education Classes, working on her sweat equity, and helping other families in the program.  Ms. Summers is looking forward to having a special place for her grandchildren to visit, a yard for a garden and her own time to relax.  “Before I leave this earth, I can say I owned something,” she said with a smile.  Everyone at Roscoe Brown is so happy for Ms. Summers and  wishes her the absolute best in her new home.

Through the work of Habitat for Humanity, thousands of families around the world have found new hope in the form of affordable housing. Roscoe Brown, plus other community groups and businesses join together to successfully tackle a significant social problem - decent housing for all.

Today, Habitat for Humanity has built more than 500,000 houses, sheltering 2.5 million people worldwide. Roscoe Brown and its employees feel privileged and pleased to have been involved with such a worthy endeavor.

Top Picture:   Roscoe Brown employees and family members spent a weekend installing a complete HVAC system in a Murfreesboro Habitat for Humanity home.

Bottom Picture: Jaime Craig, Roscoe Brown Office Manager, taking a bereak with Ms. Yvonne Summers who will soon be moving into this fine home.

• HVAC System Maintenance
  Neglect and dirt are the two main causes of HVAC system failure, so be sure to maintain your equipment. Any time is a good time to schedule a check-up of your heating equipment to make sure your system is operating at peak performance. Check and clean your system’s air filters every month. Make sure to replace if necessary.

• System with Energy Star
  Whether you are replacing light bulbs or HVAC appliances in your home, Energy Star qualified products can help you save energy and reduce energy bills.

• Programmable Thermostat
  Regulate your home’s temperature while you’re away or asleep by using one of the convenient pre-programmed settings on a programmable thermostat. When used properly, programmable thermostats can save you up to $180 every year in energy costs.

• Improve Insulation in Your Home
  As much as 20 percent of the air moving through your home’s duct system is lost due to leaks and poor connections. Sealing air leaks with caulk or spray foam, or weather stripping your doors and windows will have a significant impact on improving your comfort and reducing energy bills.

For more information on the new HVAC equipment, rebates and/or scheduling a spring check-up of your HVAC equipment contact Roscoe Brown Heating and Cooling.