Air Sealing

Air Sealing

Sealing the shell of your home—outer walls, doors, ceiling, windows and floors—from air leaks is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to increase comfort and energy efficiency. Air sealing reduces drafts, controls moisture, keeps out pollutants and improves overall comfort.

Many air leaks and drafts are easy to find because they are easy to feel, like those around doors and windows. However, hiring a contractor to perform a Blower Door test, which pressurizes and depressurizes your home to measure air leakage, can help you find many of your home’s hidden leaks. (Find out more about air sealing.)

Energy Trust offers cash for air sealing. Read more below about applying for cash incentives and hiring a contractor:

Energy Trust Incentives

Electric-heated homes: 50 percent of cost, up to $400; minimum 300 CFM50 reduction

Gas-heated homes: 50 percent of cost, up to $275;
minimum 300 CFM50 reduction

Air leakage test: $35 per residence tested
Blower Door test required (measures the air leakage of your home before and after air sealing is performed).

Save even more in your electric- or gas-heated home with our Home Comfort Package.

Incentive offer is subject to availability of funding and may change.

Tax Credits

There are not any tax credits available for this improvement.

Oregon customers heating their homes with electricity or natural gas from Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural or Cascade Natural Gas can participate.

Washington customers heating their homes with natural gas from NW Natural can receive our incentives.

Oregon homes that heat with oil, propane, kerosene, butane or wood can conduct their own energy audit and apply for cash rebates for installed weatherization upgrades through the Oregon Department of Energy's SHOW (State Home Oil Weatherization) program.

Energy Trust does not pay incentives for energy-efficient improvements that are mandated for building code compliance, such as remodeling, renovation or new additions to the home.

Follow these easy steps to get cash for air sealing your home:

1: Establish your eligibility.

2: Select a contractor and have the work done.
To receive an Energy Trust cash incentive, contact a qualified, energy-efficiency trained Energy Trust trade ally contractor or any other licensed contractor with a current Construction Contractors Board (CCB) license.

If you plan to apply for the Home Comfort Package, you must install attic, wall and floor insulation, seal air leaks, and work with an Energy Tust trade ally contractor to install your upgrades.

3: Sign and submit your application form within 90 days of installation. Often, your contractor will help you complete the form.

Mail or fax your signed and completed incentive application form along with your contractor's invoice—marked “paid in full”—to:

Mail:
Energy Trust of Oregon
Home Energy Solutions
P.O. Box 847
Portland, OR 97207

Fax:
1.866.516.7592

Please allow six to eight weeks for incentive processing and payment.

Questions? Call us at 1.866.368.7878.

Oregon Customers

Please mail or fax Form 320ADS (along with your contractor’s invoice marked “paid in full”).

You may choose to submit Form 320ADS or Form 300A. If you submit Form 300A, you are required to also submit a customized invoice that includes energy-efficiency information in addition to installation costs and materials.

Washington Customers of NW Natural

Please mail or fax Form 320WA (along with your contractor's invoice marked "paid in full").