You don’t need an engineering degree to perform a DIY energy audit on your own home – with a bit of preparation and some common sense, you can easily find many opportunities to cut your home heating, cooling, lighting and appliance costs. As I explain elsewhere on my site, the first step in any home energy conservation effort is carefully assessing your energy consumption. Once you know where you’re using (or losing) energy, you’ll find it a lot easier to figure out ways to cut out waste.

Kill A Watt Meter

Specifically mentioned were the DIY energy audit with a home electricity monitor like the Kill a Watt meter or the Belkin energy cost monitor to measure the electrical use, in kilowatt hours, of all kinds of household devices.

Then they specifically mentioned the book as the way to go for $20.00 on energy efficiency audits, HVAC audits, etc.  However, they gave praise to the book.

Get This Book

If you want all the informatin on a DIY energy audit in one place, I also suggest you look over David Findley’s excellent book on Do It Yourself Home energy audits, shown here.

This is probably the best book on the market for helping people plan their own DIY energy audit and follow up with home energy efficiency improvements that have the highest impact for the lowest cost.

Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audits helps you determine where your energy budget is being spent – some of it unwisely – and how to plan renovations, lifestyle changes, and other actions that can cut out the waste. It offers advice on topics such as the impacts of your personal energy and other resource use on the environment, how to decide which energy efficiency upgrades you can do yourself and which ones to look for help with, and what kinds of outside funding such as tax rebates and incentives you can take advantage of to help pay for the upgrades you decide on. You can view selected pages of the book and check the reader reviews on Amazon.com.