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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 an Energy Trust Existing Mobile Homes 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 air sealing as a free service for residents of mobile homes that are not on a permanent, attached foundation.

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

Energy-saving improvements can only be performed one time per home, regardless of new ownership. If you do not own your mobile home, your property owner or manager must approve the work.

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

Your mobile home must be prequalified before installation can begin. To prequalify your mobile home, call us at 1.866.368.7878.

This energy-saving improvement must be performed by an Existing Mobile Homes trade ally contractor.

Your mobile home must be prequalified before the installations can begin. To prequalify your mobile home and receive a list of Energy Trust contractors in your area, call us at 1.866.368.7878.

If you are a renter, talk to the owner of the mobile home unit or property about the benefits of making energy-saving improvements.

After these improvements have been made to your home, Energy Trust may contact you to schedule a quality control inspection. The inspection will ensure the work has been completed to program specifications and that your home is now saving energy.