How Solar Attic Fans Can Save You Money‪!‬ Austin Solar Attic Fans and Insulation Podcast

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Podcast Episode Transcription:
And the check a pro radio show starts now as I'm working hey everybody thank you for joining me here on my show the checker pro radio show I am check a pro show it's so great to have you here each and every week hold on tight it's going to be a fantastic fact filled program if you have a house and you have an attic in your house you need to listen to the show today it's really that simple so if you don't own a house or don't have any interest in the house even if you're an investor and you have rental houses you need to listen to the show today my guest Tom the attic fanatic is going to be joining me in just a few moments I brought him in as the expert on attic ventilation what happens here this time of year in Austin it gets hot in our homes and it's because of the sun for the most part and because of the basic just all around heat that comes off of the sun it radiates off of everything the attic is the hottest part of our house he's got a great product it's a solar attic fan and this pulls the heat out of the attic to allow us to be more comfortable in our home it saves us money and it keeps our house healthier with that I'm going to introduce my guest Tom the attic fanatic Tom is good to see you it's good to be here thanks for having me absolutely it's hot this time of year here in Austin why doesn't every roof have a solar attic fan to answer that question for me the builders put them in right well two reasons we haven't got to all the houses yet OK we're working on it we're trying to get them all done house by house and then yeah a lot of times the builders so we have this conversation on time with builders and like if I have to put ten more dollars in a house and I build a 1000 houses a month or a year it's you know it just adds up so they kind of cut corners where they can and they're like you know what the end of the day we're not paying the electric bill for that homeowner it's their problem let them figure out so they're really more worried about houses house look meet building minimum building code and that's it they're good to go houses so I mean they like well we can't even keep up we sell houses we have 100 houses so we might can't even get them built so we're good so they don't really care about the homeowners so much as as we do is looking at the attic temperature so we specialize in attic temperature adding ventilation it's all about air exchanges per hour get more air flow through the attic and keep the attic temperatures down and when you do that you lower the energy cost of the home because your extra is running less that's how you save your energy the less the air conditioner runs or the less hours in a day so if it's running 15 hours a day and we can get it down to 120 and say 11 or 10 or 11 hours a day well they need to save 30% on your cooling cost so that's how you save energy and it's pretty simple it's about solar doesn't cost anything to run so when you're lower the edit temperature that's free to do it doesn't cost money to run that thing there are a couple of them but then you get all the energy savings so that's why they're so valuable and you get a 26% federal energy tax credit with solar ventilation so it's a lot it's a win- win situation and it's relatively painless as simple to do our installations take about an hour it's not like it's a big long project you can call us up we'll come out we'll do the evaluation we'll look at your add and see if it's a good fit for you for the house if it is then we get it scheduled and usually within just a week or so we have it installed and like I said it's a one