Our Services

From energy audits to full-service home performance contracting, we offer a range of services to help you start today to make your home more comfortable, healthier, and more affordable.

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Home Performance Contracting

Home performance contracting means looking at everything in your home as a system that functions together. Some of the elements in that system include the lighting, the insulation in the floors, the walls and the attic, the heating and air, the air sealing in your attic, and the windows. The building science of these interactive elements enable the smart HP contractor to bring solutions to health issues from poor air quality, resolution to moisture problems, making leaky drafty rooms cozy, and getting rid of energy waste.

Home Performance is a relatively new field that has grown out of an increased awareness of the need to address the poor performance of our existing homes. The goal of HP contracting is to fix these homes so that they perform efficiently. Progressive provides that professional installation of measures that will.maximize energy efficiency and building durability, ensuring the healthiest possible indoor air quality. We evaluate the relationships between your home’s various components to ensure that they’re all functioning as they were designed to. The result is a home that is more durable, more comfortable, more energy efficient — exactly how a home should be.

Home Energy Audits: Great Information for Existing Homes

Chances are, you're spending much more on utility bills than you need to be.  A home energy audit gives you the opportunity to fix that. Using the latest technology a comprehensive home energy audit will point out leaks in your home's thermal envelope, deficiencies in insulation, and other opportunities to stop heat loss and reduce energy consumption, while improving the comfort and safety of your home. In addition to recommending fixes to reduce energy, we'll also evaluate carbon monoxide safety, mold, the potential presence of asbestos and lead, and other air quality isssues. Our comprehensive audit report will include a prioritized list of potential improvements, and an estimate of the savings our recommended work will likely lead to.

Energy Star and BPI Accreditation

As energy efficient building standards become increasingly prominent in the real estate community, more and more homeowners are looking to building certifications as a way to distinguish their properties to prospective buyers.

Progressive is fully qualified to determine whether your new construction or remodeling project is up to the latest Title 24 standards of the State of California for energy efficiency. We cooperate with the Energy Star Homes program, which at various points comes up to the California Title 24 Building Standard.

Fully aware that sorting through the red tape of the energy efficient building process can be difficult for homeowners and contractors alike, we offer Progressive Concierge services to help you achieve your building goals.

Blower Door Testing

Blower door testing is a way to test the "leakiness" of your home. By depressurizing your home and measuring the rate at which air infiltrates through imperfections in the building envelope, we're able to assess how much energy (and money) is escaping through air leaks, and how much you're likely to save by fixing those leaks. As part of this process, we will inspect the house with an infrared camera to pinpoint potentially hidden air leaks (making it much easier to address them when the time comes to get to work). We also offer blower door testing as an isolated service to test the effectiveness of improvements that have been made to a home, and to provide homeowners and contractors with a roadmap to further improve a home's efficiency moving forward.

Infrared Diagnostics

Having your home evaluated with an infrared camera sheds valuable light on the effectiveness of your home's thermal envelope. An infrared camera reveals hidden air leaks and areas where insulation isn't performing, and can also yield some interesting surprises -- such as the presence of an uninsulated hot water pipe, or a bay or attic eave with no insulation at all, or recessed lights reaching dangerously high temperatures. It's a valuable part of any good home energy audit, and a step that we guarantee to take with thoroughness and precision (although our experience tells us that it can also be a fun part of the energy audit for homeowners).