Solstice Home Performance

06/13/2025

Shout out to Sprout Sponsor of the 4th Annual Delaware County Sustainability Conference - Solstice Home Performance

Solstice Home Performance is proud to sponsor the Delaware County Sustainability Conference for the 2nd Year in a Row! Solstice Home Performance is your go-to home energy expert offering energy efficiency evaluations and home performance improvements.

Learn more about Solstice Home Performance and their important work at their table during the Closing Keynote Celebration this Saturday, June 14th at the Historic Lazretto in TInicum!

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06/17/2024

It is going to be hot this week. If your home is uncomfortable the problem may be that there is insufficient / old AC or it may be because your home is not properly air sealed and under insulated. Don't guess what the problem is. Whichever contractor you call to fix the problem is going to recommend what they sell. Contact Solstice Home Performance for an Energy Audit and find out what are the best solutions for your home comfort issues. An Energy Audit costs $549 and qualifies for a $150 tax credit. Call or text Scott Sidlow at 484-929-9223 with questions or to sign up. SolsticeHomePerformance.com.

04/30/2024

Was your home too hot when you came home today? If so it is going to continue this way throughout the summer. Our home energy audit will diagnose your home comfort issues and then we can solve them for you with energy efficiency improvements. Send me a DM or come to solsticehomeperformance.com for more information.

03/18/2024

Solstice Home Performance has served as the project manager of Phase I of another home performance project and I want to let you know the results.

This project was on one of the 400 or so homes built by the George Woodward Co. in the 1920s in Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy and the surrounding areas. As Woodward liked to build, this home is ¼ of a 3 story quad building with architecturally attractive roof lines and complicated to insulate kneewall cavities, sloped ceilings, dormers and a flat roof.

This phase of the project used five contracting companies and includes air sealing and insulating the top of the house, rewiring the third floor, a new bathroom exhaust fan in the primary bath and a heat pump water heater.

Bob Layton and his team at R&L Electric made quick work of rewiring the third floor and provided additional lighting to the stairwell and better switching to operate lights around the home. John Simerowski and his team at Electrical Wizardry were extremely persistent in ensuring the bathroom exhaust fan would fit in the framing above the primary bath shower and venting it through the roof. Jerry and Victor and the team at the Patch Boys did a great job making insulation access holes in the flat and sloped ceilings and kneewalls and then patching them back up again so that you could not even tell that holes were made. Rob, Tommy and Cameron from MT Weatherization left Harrisburg at 6 in the morning, insulated the entire top of the house all day until 630 at night and then drove back to Harrisburg again. Steve Armstrong of Armstrong Associates installed the heat pump water heater.

The top of this home is now well insulated and the post improvements blower door test showed a 23% percent difference in air leakage.

Over my career I have energy audited and developed the scope of work on at least 25 different Woodward Homes and many other architecturally attractive and complicated to insulate homes. If you live in one of those homes with the high utility bills and the uncomfortable rooms that come with them, you should contact me at Solstice Home Performance.com.

03/02/2024

Solstice Home Performance https://www.solsticehomeperformance.com/ is very pleased to let you know about the completion of a recent Home Performance Project in Pottstown. On this home, we changed an existing Kitchen recirculation fan so that is now vented to the outside, installed two Panasonic Whisper Green Bath fans one of which will run all the time to provide fresh air, air sealed the home to 3.47 ACH50, insulated both attics, replaced the entire roof and installed a 5.2-Kilowatt Photovoltaic system. This was a comprehensive job that improves indoor air quality and makes the home one of the most energy efficient and sustainable homes in their neighborhood.

The Ventilation on this project cost $3300, Air Sealing and Insulation was $7400 minus an $1100 tax credit, the Roof was $16,500 and the Solar Panels were 19,500 minus a $5850 tax credit. Solstice Home Performance Fees were less than $1800 for managing the entire project.

The electric bill for this home for the next 25 years will be less than $25.00 per month. The ventilation improvements are a valuable investment in the health of the homeowners. The Air Sealing and Insulation measures will improve the home’s comfort and reduce the heating and air conditioning bills. The Roof replacement is a cost of home ownership that needs to be made every 20 to 30 years and should be planned for in conjunction with solar installations.

This home was built in 1999 and is very far along the home performance path to net zero because the homeowners made good choices on this project, it is not that old, and in the past 5 years the homeowners had already invested in a basement perimeter drain to keep it dry and a high efficiency HVAC system. In the future, when the gas water heater and Furnace reach the end of their expected lifespan, converting to a heat pump water heater and a heat pump are the logical next improvements.

Every home is on its own Home Performance Journey and may not be as far along the path as this home is. That’s ok. Solstice Home Performance would like to help you make your home as Comfortable, Healthy, Efficient, Affordable and Sustainable as is practical and possible. Our Energy Audits will help you identify how far along your home is on the Home Performance Path and then develop a plan to continue down a path that can be implemented sometime in the next 10 days to 10 years depending on your home’s equipment replacement cycle, your budget and other life priorities.

Energy Efficiency improvements are the only improvements that you can make that qualify for Tax Credits and soon there will be Federal Rebates available too. Contact us for more Information. https://www.solsticehomeperformance.com/
A huge thank you to our Partners on this project: Odonnell Roofing, Odonnell Solar, MT Building Services and Married 2 Electric.

12/21/2023

Today is the Winter Solstice and I am using that occasion to announce the Grand Opening of my new business.

Solstice Home Performance https://www.solsticehomeperformance.com/ is a company the specializes in making homes comfortable, healthy, efficient and affordable through our process of conducting comprehensive home energy audits and then serving as the project manager during Home Performance Improvements. Serving Delaware County PA and the surrounding areas I believe I can help anyone living in a home improve how they experience their homes and afford to pay for them.

If you have cold rooms, high utility bills, poor indoor air quality, moisture issues, want a home improvement plan, want to fight climate change, or want to receive tax credits and rebates for improving your home, you should schedule an energy audit today.

Using Building Science knowledge, we take a whole house approach to homes considering all of its building components, like walls, roofs, windows, heaters, insulation, air conditioners, wiring, plumbing etc. and how they work together to keep the occupants dry, warm or cool, healthy and safe in a manner that is hopefully affordable.

If you are experiencing a problem in your home or a considering a single measure like new insulation or new heater or new windows, stop. Before you do that, have Solstice Home Performance take a comprehensive look at your home and provide you with a plan that can be implemented in span of time between 10 days and 10 years.

As an introductory offer, Solstice Home Performance is offering a $50 discount off all energy audits between now and the Spring Equinox. Just mention this facebook post when you contact us through our website, or messenger or in the comments below.

Solstice Home Performance conducts energy audits, blower door tests, energy code inspections and tests, energy efficiency improvements, Reschecks and energy modeling, IRA rebate consulting and home performance inspections during real estate transactions.