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HOUSE DOKTOR - a doctor of your home will cure its illness. Is there something wrong with your house and you want to take actions to solve this?

Call HOUSE DOKTOR and let him utilize his expertise. 

Introductory checkup of your house - by mutual agreement our expert visits you to become familiar with the technologies used in your boiler room and in other technical areas of your house. If you operate in your house modern technologies such as a heatpump or solar or photovoltaic panels, we would need an access to these facilities, too. We will check building design documentation, especially documentation of heating system, hot water preparation system and electrical installation. In many cases we often recognize that the project documentation does not correspond with the reality or is unavailable at all. In this case, we map the situation according to the installed equipment and its actual setup. The purpose of this first visit is to collect as much information as possible on the basis of which we prepare detailed analysis of existing technological systems of your house. It will include a proposal of recommended actions to remedy identified deficiencies.

Measuring the consumption profiles of your house - on mutually agreed nodes of your house electrical system we place our sensors, which records the consumption profile of a given node at a time. For example, sensors can be placed in the cabinet for the electricity supply to the house and measure its total consumption on each of three phases individually or we can measure and compare the consumption of individual electrical circuits at the breaker (can measure up to ten network segments at a time) or we can measure the power consumption of your electric boiler (or heatpump) in time and compare its dependence on outdoor and indoor temperature in the house - look at live measured data of the house heated by heatpump NIBE F2030-7. All these measurements will be arranged individually according to the real situation in your house so that we can use measured data as an ​​additional inputs to our technical reports.

Measuring of real heat loss of your house - part of the project documentation of your house is a theoretical calculation of thermal insulation characteristics of your house and its projected heat losses based on which was designed the heating system of your house. Our experience has convinced us that these theoretical calculations of real heat loss of the house is often highly variable. This is the first reason of high heating costs, when you have an oversized (or vice versa undersized) heat source, so that works out of their optimal operating mode with low efficiency. Our measurements determined objectively true (ie not just mathematicaly calculated) curve of heat loss in your house, in relation to the external and internal temperatures and will give us key information for further actions. Please be aware that this is a long-term measurements in a matter of weeks (to be able to collect enough amount of data ​​by various outdoor temperatures - look live data from the running measurement of the heatpump NIBE F2030-9 at our reference customer site), but does not require any interaction from your site. Also presence of our staff during this long-term measurement will be minimized to a few short visits.

Checking the construction of the house with a infrared camera - in almost every family house are places where the builders left so-called thermal bridges. This concerns mainly the places where the building envelope is broken by a some technological throughput (such as a roof with chimney, look right picture) or by windows, doors etc. Using professional infrared camera FLIR we check all the potential point of heat leakage and based on the measured data and images we determine exactly which places are well made and where some heat loss occurs. Furthermore, we will specify which leakage is normal and acceptable (for example, through windows or ventilation), and where is any fault of thermal insulation envelope and how it can be fixed. We will recommend which fixes implementation is meaningful and when is there a malfunction, the removal of which would not be effective. To make measurement with the infrared camera providing most useful results it must be carried out at the lowest possible outdoor temperatures.

Based on the above described services HOUSE DOKTOR delivers a final report of the detailed technology audit of your house, including a list of recommended actions (such as changing control settings, completing missing or nonfunctional technology, adding new or optimizing existing heat sources, operational recommendations etc.). For each recommended action a ROI and expected costs will be calculated. If you decide for implementation of these steps, we propose you delivery, installation of necessary new technology and system integration with current systems in your house to save you endless haggling with various craftsmen and suppliers, and all that means you get a fully functional, optimized, turnkey system at pre-agreed prices. 

Our main advantage is our independence of any specific technology or manufacturer or vendor. That's why we can always choose the best solution tailored for your needs and expectations.

In addition to the above services we are also able to provide:

• official energy audit report
  
• energy efficiency label of building
  
• detailed aerial photos and video of your home or property from a low altitude

After HOUSE DOKTOR's visit you pay less and you know excactly what you pay for.

Email us to help@housedoktor.cz and you will get limited "new customer" welcome bonus