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Is your Annapolis or Eastern Shore home making you feel sick or unhealthy? There are a lot of different ways that a home can be uncomfortable or unsafe. Total Home Performance offers Healthy Home Assessments along with our Healthy Home Solutions to help identify and address the aspects of your home that are preventing you from creating a healthier, safer, and more comfortable living environment for you and your family.

What makes our Healthy Home Assessment different from a Home Energy Audit? With indoor air quality testing, a visual inspection and evaluation, and more, our assessments look at every area and system in your home that could pose a threat to your health, from poor air quality all the way down to a rug that may cause a tripping hazard!

What Does a Healthy Home Assessment Address?

Our assessment leaves no stone unturned when it comes to the health of your home. We look to resolve the following home-health issues:

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Indoor Air Quality

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Mold & Moisture

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Indoor Drafts & Inconsistent Temperatures

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Excessive Dust & Allergen

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Ventilation & Filtration

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Pests & Rodents

Often, homeowners don’t even realize that the symptoms they’re experiencing, like chronic coughing,frequent sneezing, congestion, or itchy eyes and skin, can be traced back to their home and poor indoor air quality. If you feel better when you leave your home, only to be sick again when you return, it could be due to an unhealthy indoor environment.

What Is Included in a Healthy Home Assessment

We tailor each Healthy Home Assessment to accommodate the unique circumstances of the individual home and its occupants. This is done through a series of inspections, interviews, and diagnostic tests, including:

Tests and Measurements for:

  • Humidity and Moisture

  • VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds)

  • CO & CO2 (Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide)

  • Airborne Particulates

  • Gas Leaks

  • Mold, Lead, and Asbestos

Visual Evaluations of:

  • Ventilation & Filtration Systems

  • Electrical & Chemical Hazards

  • Aging-in-Place Safety Concerns

  • HVAC Components and Duct System

  • Building Envelope (Air Leaks, Insulation, Pest Intrusion)

  • Attic, Crawl Space, and Basement

The Healthy Home Assessment Process

Step 1: Interview

First, we take the time to sit down for a conversation with you and your family to hear more about the specific problems you’re looking to address. This homeowner interview helps us better understand what it’s like to live in your home and what you experience at different parts of the day.

Step 2: Visual Inspection & Diagnostic Testing 

Sometimes we will use diagnostic tools, like infrared cameras or blower doors, to inspect different parts of your home and uncover the source of moisture or humidity intrusion. However, the most powerful diagnostic tool we have is our eyes, backed up by our building science and healthy home knowledge and experience!

During your Assessment, we’ll check out all the different parts of your home, including areas you probably don’t spend much time in, like your crawl space, looking for the cause of unhealthy indoor air and safety concerns.

Step 3: Indoor Air Quality Testing

Almost every Healthy Home Assessment we conduct includes indoor air quality testing. It’s a top concern for many local families and homeowners, and we can test for a variety of indoor air pollutants, including mold, mVOCs, and microtoxins, all of which can be a problem in Maryland homes due to our higher humidity levels.

Step 4: Review Your Report & Proposal

After we are done, you will have a chance to sit down with your Healthy Home Expert to discuss the issues affecting the health and comfort of your home. You’ll immediately receive a copy of your indoor air quality testing report, followed by a write-up outlining our recommendations for a healthier and safer home. These recommendations can be anything from installing aging-in-place upgrades in your home to services like crawl space encapsulation, ventilation, humidity control, and more.

 

Healthy Commercial Building Assessments

Don’t let the name fool you—we have just as much to offer businesses and commercial building owners who are experiencing signs of an unhealthy building and looking for answers to the same questions local homeowners have. Reach out to our team today to learn more about the ways we can help!

 

Make your home as healthy as possible, from top to bottom—it all starts with a Healthy Home Assessment. Call our Healthy Home Division at (410) 593-1824 or get in touch here.

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What Our Customers Are Saying About Us

  • The contractor was thorough, professional and impressive in the presentation and completion of the work completed at our home. Their work crew was extremely neat, efficient and timely in getting the work done. I highly recommend Total Home Performance, L.L.C.

    John Davis

  • Total Home Performance did an outstanding job. The work was completed as promised (time/price/quality).

    Joseph Holt

  • Entirely Satisfactory - Derek Dombrosky is an extremely capable young man.

    Elden and Barbara Hartshorn

  • Over all the THP experience was complete thorough and very professional. The equipment utilized was first rate and the work was excellent.

    William Gilmore

  • Total Home Performance is a yong company that is dedicated to doing outstanding work. Following the energy audit, Derek made an excellent presentation to us regarding our problems and their proposed solutions.

    Bill Leasure

  • Excellent staff. Professional work. Worked well with my schedule.

    Dean Hinton

  • Total Performance LLC was a very professional, hard working group. Since we are a total electric house with three heat pumps and a crawl space, we are looking forward to a lower power bill this winter.

    Ed Bishop

  • Total Home Performance was an excellent contractor. They were very knowledgeable and recommended solutions which were very helpful in improving the livability and energy efficiency in my home.

    Peter Kennedy

  • Contractor was on time, neat, had very good workers, and cleaned up after finished. Very satisfied.

    Patrick

  • The owner of the company Derek, came to our home soon after we contacted the company for an audit. He seemed to do a very thorough evaluation in all parts of the house.

    Joyce M. Fitzpatrick

  • We had our home sealed and our crawl space too and as the winter months are here---we feel the difference already.

    Tim Nowak

  • Addressed a number of issues we had with an old "ballon frame" house. Updated crawlspace and insulated attic.

    Gary

  • The work was done effeciently and I could feel the difference in the in the heat/air right away. I am very happy with the work that was done.

    Judy

  • Designated work completed as scheduled. Workers were courteous and completed work in above average manner.

    Larry Fry

  • I was amazed at the immediate impact of house sealing on the level of comfort. I have to wait until next winter to see if the savings are as expected. The contractors crew were very professional and very careful.

    B J Latka

  • We were very pleased with Total Home Performance and the energy audit experience. All the employees were very professional, they showed up on time to perform the audit, which took about two hours, as they indicated.

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  • Very capable personnel, respectful of our home, pleasant, able to answer question intelligently, thorough.

    John Bayliss

  • Company was outstanding.

    Dr Bill Plack

  • This is the second time the contractor has done work for us and each time it was a delight doing business with him.

    The Danns

  • We are delighted with the work that Total Home Performance performed in our home. The workers and the type of work they did were professional. They updated us on the status of work. We would definitely utilize them in the future if the need arises.

    David Turner

  • Total home performance did a great job sealing, removing decking in attic and installing new insulation and attic tent. They cleaned everything left no mess. Wife was very happy when she got home.

    Jimmy

  • Everyone was very nice and explained the reason for every improvement they suggested. There were several issues with having my information submitted for my rebates from my electric company, but they were eventually resolved.

    Crystal D.

  • Professional and friendly people provided excellent service.

    David Gibson

  • The company was dependable in terms of doing what they said they would, when they said they would. They seemed to be very knowledgeable. They resolved several of the issues that their audit indicated were problems.

    Karen

  • I can only say one word for the performance of Total Home Performance LLC is EXCELLENCE in all areas of work performed. Aside from a job well done, cleaned up working space at the end of each day, kept me informed as to what was taking place from day to day, and also finished the job on time.

    BJD

  • Everthing done well – sales, energy audit, installation, paperwork.

    Roger Crow

  • Total Home Performance has been very easy to deal with and I found them very efficient.

    Julie Libby

  • Matt Hargrove and his crew were excellent, on time and completed the work as indicated with no additional ala carte charges. Matt came out on the evening of hurricane Irene after we noticed our sump pump not working.

    Deb Rich

  • All went well. Very polite and professional. Finished work in timely manner. Hope it helps improve our heating costs!

    Bonnie Greer

  • From start to finish a very good experience. Complete analysis of needed upgrading to implementation was very positive experience. Work crew was very responsible and personable.

    Chuck and Ruth Barbour

  • My experience with the Maryland Home Performance program was very good for the following reasons. 1. The use of a certified contractor in energy efficient methods. 2. Having a certified contractor company that employs a crew that does good work.

    Sidney Schneider

  • Contractor was professional and completed all tasks as agreed. Program was helpful. We hope to realize energy savings over the coming years.

    Bruce Thomas

  • The contractors were kind, courteous and respectful of our home.

    Ed Watkins

  • The workers were experienced, fast, and neat. In addition they were polite. This is my first year in my home so I have no way of comparing my energy use this year with other years. I am satisfied with the work done.

    Carol

  • Work was completed on time and the workers went above and beyond. Great company to work with kept us informed the whole process

    Richard Covert

  • I can only say one word for the performance of Total Home Performance LLC is EXCELLENCE in all areas of work performed. Aside from a job well done, cleaned up working space at the end of each day, kept me informed as to what was taking place from day to day, and also finished the job on time.

    Maryland Local

  • From start to finish a very good experience. Complete analysis of needed upgrading to implementation was very positive experience. Work crew was very responsible and personable.

    Maryland Local

  • The workers were experienced, fast, and neat. In addition they were polite. This is my first year in my home so I have no way of comparing my energy use this year with other years. I am satisfied with the work done.

    Maryland Local

  • Matt Hargrove and his crew were excellent, on time and completed the work as indicated with no additional a-la carte charges. Matt came out on the evening of hurricane Irene after we noticed our sump pump not working.

    Maryland Local