How to Monitor Your Home’s Electrical Usage
It’s easy to get caught up in day-to-day living without giving much thought to energy usage in your home. But a little foresight, planning, and monitoring will go a long …
Xeriscaping for Your Portland Home
With summer here, thoughts turn to the outdoors here in the Pacific Northwest. Gardening and landscaping become priorities for homeowners, and increased water usage is inevitable. Whether you have an …
How to Prevent and Clean up Mold in Your Portland Home
Mold growth in homes is a common occurrence in Portland with our long, damp annual periods. Mold spores—the microscopic cells that reproduce and cause mold to spread—can be insidious, creeping …
Top 4 Ventilation Options for Your Portland Home
We recently wrote an article about how to control moisture in your home, and as we said, one of the key focuses in your home to prevent moisture is proper …
How to Control Moisture in a Portland Home
Controlling moisture in your home is essential to your budget and your health. In Portland, this can be a challenge considering all the rain we get. Three-quarters of the year …
Top 3 Heating Systems for Homes in Portland
Portland is described as having a Mediterranean climate due to its close proximity to both the ocean and the mountains. However, we don’t see the warm weather found in other …
Home Energy Score 1 – How Bad is It?
Since the Home Energy Score (HES) became a legal requirement for most Portland, Hillsboro, and Milwaukie home owners wanting to put their homes on the market, concerns about a score …
How to do a DIY Home Energy Assessment
Before you commit to a professional home energy assessment to learn your home’s energy score, you might want to consider taking the DIY route. Now you can’t perform your own …
Why Get a Home Energy Score Before Selling a Home?
Since January 1, 2018, all residents who wish to publicly list their homes for sale in Portland are legally required to get and disclose a Home Energy Score Report (HESR) …
Hillsboro Home Energy Score Program – 2022 Update
The possibility of the Hillsboro Home Energy Score Program we wrote about back in June is now a reality. Though not an official vote, community response to a survey of …