Welcome to the Orca Efficiency Group Web Site
We offer a complete array of Home Performance Testing services and diagnostics
Our Goal
Provide non-biased advice to:
  • Reduce energy use and resource consumption in residential and commercial buildings
  • Improve home / building comfort
  • Lower utility bills
  • Reduce deferred maintenance
  • Improve indoor air quality and home safety.
  • Diagnose building moisture problems
How We Do It
  • Structural Maintenance and Efficiency Plans (view sample)
  • Infrared thermal imaging for heat loss and latent moisture diagnosis
  • Blower door heat loss and home leakage tests
  • Heating duct leakage tests
  • Occupancy behavior consultations
  • Utility bill consultations
  • Tune-up energy audits
Who We Are
Orca Efficiency Group is a consortium of three different businesses: By drawing on the experience of three different companies we offer the most thorough home performance diagnostics available. Together we have over 40 years of construction, home inspection, energy retrofit and building science experience. Below is a partial list of our credentials.
  • Energy Star certified home performance testers
  • Certified Tune-Up energy auditer
  • A full member of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI #243727)
  • A Washington State Licensed Structural Pest Inspector # 65540
  • A member of the Washington State Pest Management Association
  • Educationally certified by Inspection Training Associates
  • A carbon neutral business
We Feature
  • Hands-on consultation during the Home Performance Test
  • Custom narrative reports of our findings
  • We include digital photos and infrared photos of problem areas
Energy Facts
  • Home weatherization is the cleanest, cheapest and most abundant source of energy available to us today in the United States.
  • Many homes can be made 10-30% more energy efficient without spending more that $2500 for performance testing and repair.
  • If every home in the United States were to weatherize and implement a 15-year home efficiency plan we could cut the Nation.s energy use by 5-10% over the next 15 years using readily available and existing technology.
  • Home performance testing and weatherization often costs much less than a high efficiency furnace, heat pump or solar hot water system and can typically save much more energy. In addition, those expensive systems have services lives that range from 10-25 years before replacement is needed, while home weatherization lasts forever.