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At Evergreen Home Performance, part of our commitment to helping Mainers live in healthier and more efficient homes involves taking a step back to view the big picture. Understanding exactly what a home needs before making upgrades can not only help us find the most effective and long-lasting solutions to its issues, but it also allows us to develop a plan of action with what we call a Whole Home Road Map. 

While making home upgrades all at once is ideal, we recognize that it isn’t possible for every MidCoast Mainer to accomplish. The initial cost of improving your home’s performance can be expensive and going at your own pace can break the cost down into manageable pieces. Whole Home Road Maps make big projects—like electrification—more accessible, ensuring that your project stays stress-free and within your budget. 

Taking a Phased Approach to Home Upgrades

Staggering your retrofit upgrades involves strategic planning that both eases the financial burden and overwhelming stress that so often come with comprehensive home improvements. Phasing in services at your own pace has several other benefits as well, including:

  • Clear plan of action – Instead of going through upgrades in chaos, your home project will be broken down into easily manageable sections.
  • Order of Operations – The order in which you undertake home energy efficiency upgrades matters. For example, it usually makes sense to upgrade the air tightness & insulation of your structure prior to changing out heating & cooling appliances. Why? Because air sealing & insulating reduces waste first to enable you to right-size your appliances for maximum efficiency and affordability. 
  • Adaptability – You’ll be able to make adjustments throughout the process in order to fit any changes in your lifestyle or hiccups along the way.
  • You can stay in your home – When remodeling your entire home at once, there’s a big chance that you won’t be able to stay there throughout the duration of the project—with a phased approach, you can! 
  • Timing Coordination – You’ll be able to schedule each piece of your home project when it works best for you.
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Evergreen Home Performance: Your Trusted Home Efficiency Contractors in MidCoast Maine 

We’ve been helping Mainers with their home performance and comfort improvements since 2006. Whether you’re looking to reduce your energy consumption or improve your general home comfort, our team is here for you.

Incentive Stacking for Maximum Benefits

Using a Whole Home Road Map for your home improvements allows you to claim the maximum amount through available incentives, making them more affordable. 

Inflation Reduction Act Federal Tax Credits

The 25C tax credits have an annual limit—however they can be claimed year after year as you make upgrades to your home. When using your Whole Home Road Map from Evergreen Home Performance, you’ll be able to plan your upgrades to maximize your savings.

Efficiency Maine Rebates

As you’re staggering your home upgrades, Efficiency Maine offers several rebates for energy-saving home upgrades. The Evergreen team can help you determine what services qualify for Efficiency Maine rebates and guide you through claiming them with our Whole Home Road Map program.

Where to Start & Finish: Home Energy Audits

The first step to a Whole Home Road Map is to understand exactly where your home needs upgrades with a free energy assessment. This analysis of your home involves a thorough inspection and infrared diagnostics to determine where your home has inefficiencies with insulation or significant air leakage. 

Based on your energy assessment, our team will recommend services to combat your home health, comfort, and efficiency issues. Some common solutions we recommend throughout MidCoast Maine include:

At Evergreen Home Performance, we stand by our work—which is why we also perform an energy audit at the completion of every project to measure its effectiveness.

Get started with your free consult today! Call 207-594-2244 or contact us online.

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Thanks Evergreen Home Performance for helping to make our home more efficient. Many thanks as well to Bryan for the initial walk through and recommendations to make our home more efficient and to Dave, Roland, and Jacob for a job that was done professionally and courteous.  We were amazed at the level of efficiency and everyday they made sure to protect our floors, carpets, and furniture. We had daily discussions with Dave about progress and what was being done and where they were at in the project.

Carol Fink

Evergreen has a professional and reliable team of people who do excellent work. If you want the best of the best in the area, select Evergreen to accomplish your insulation needs.

Mary E.

St. George

We had a fantastic experience working with Evergreen to insulate our roof this winter. Everyone was extremely friendly throughout the process - the crew at our home worked hard, were approachable with questions, and the team leader even showed me around the project to point out specific areas they were working to improve.

Joel Wentz

Professional, friendly and hard-working staff. The product/approach they use for insulation is top notch. We felt the difference immediately, both from added warmth and eliminating drafts. The team and management were easily available to answer our questions or coordinate meeting times. Highly recommended.

Kevin J.

Yarmouth

We couldn't be more pleased with the easy, professional, high-value service from Evergreen. Having purchased an older home that had been in our family for generations, we needed multiple upgrades, including insulation throughout. Evergreen insulated our attic with blown-in cellulose, built a new, super-insulated attic hatch, sealed off the old one (which was just a piece of plywood in a closet ceiling), and also talked us through our best options to upgrade our heating system given the plans we have to add onto the house.

Tom G.

South Thomaston

The crew members from Evergreen Home Performance each made sure to greet us every day, while maintaining their distance in this time of the pandemic. Their work took a total of nine days, spread over three weeks. Even though they were working in multiple rooms of our house, as well as the basement and attic, they were unobtrusive and always cleaned up after themselves every day. The on-sight manager kept us informed of their daily schedule so we'd know which parts of the house they'd be working on.

Bob & Sue

Whitefield

Great company. Very professional and thorough. They take the time to explain everything and offer options to fit your budget. Wonderful experience from start to finish.

Bonnie Eustace

Working with Brian and with Nate and the rest of the crew was a pleasure. They made everything very easy and understandable. This was a major renovation and they were always at the ready with a lot of information. We had an extensive renovation on the basement which was a dirt basement and it came out beautifully. We can already tell from all of the insulation work what a difference it's made in sound and temperature. Brian worked with me on the rebates that are available when you do this kind of work. I would highly recommend this company to…

Valerie L.

Rockland

I had gotten estimates from several other companies, but Evergreen was in another league entirely with their professionalism. If you want the job done correctly, I couldn't recommend this company enough.

Rayna Mayo

Freeport

I made the mistake of NOT hiring this company last year when I bought and renovated my home. I have brought them in now and what a difference. This group knows what they are doing. They take a complete look at everything and believe they can make your home more energy efficient. They are very professional in the way they approach problems and solutions. And they find ways to save me money. Don't bother with anyone else. Bring Evergreen in before you do anything. Let them assess your issues and give you the right solutions.

Shaw

Owls Head

Evergreen is a terrific company to deal with. Polite and efficient crews, meeting deadlines and major reduction in our heat bills. They corrected a lot of issues we suffered from doing work with a shoddy building contractor. We would recommend them to anyone.

Mary Carey

They were highly recommended. I found them to be very knowledgeable and so helpful, with practical ideas. Despite my not living within their service area, they were generous with their knowledge, describing the usual solutions to correct leaks in my basement, and what the result is likely to be by following path A, B or C, and why. I was discouraged. Talking with Evergreen helped me see that my basement problems are far from insurmountable and really, fairly common in 100-year old homes. There are proven solutions.

Rosalind J

Damariscotta

Our basement was the eyesore of the house. I wanted to make improvements, but first needed to make structural, insulating and moisture mitigation improvements. Evergreen was professional and competent in taking on a complex project of not only encapsulation and insulation of basement and crawlspace, but completed needed improvements to the structural integrity of the wood floor platform above a crawlspace and brought in a concrete contractor to pour where there was once a rotting, tiered wood platform - replacing that area with a more functional and tight tiered concrete area.

Duane B.

East Boothbay

In the final stages of selling our home, and with a closing date set, an inspection came across an unanticipated issue in our attic. We quickly called in contractors, but nobody was able to identify the source of the problem. Then we thought of Evergreen. Brian Robinson was on site the next morning and immediately identified the source (a faulty roofing job completed three years earlier which had effectively sealed up portions of the ridge vent and restricted air flow - not easily visible with a quick inspection).

Robin McIntosh

Camden

From beginning to end – that is from the moment Justin McEdward stepped into our home to assess our energy conservation needs until the crew left – the Evergreen Home Performance process went absolutely smoothly. Justin made a thorough inspection and took pictures with an infrared camera. His proposal described the scope of work in detail, and he explained what we could expect the proposed work to accomplish. Our proposal was forthcoming within a couple of days, and Justin was available to discuss it and answer questions.

Adrienne Harkavy

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