Check whether the home.

A family at Residential home, Sioux Falls SD keeps paying high heating bills and living with cold rooms, but doesn't know where the drafts and missing insulation are. Walk every assembly, check combustion safety first, and hand them a ranked weatherization package.

Where

Residential home, Sioux Falls SD · Open the map

Pay

$140 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

photo assembly inventory + GPS + CO spot readings + draft-trace notes + the ranked weatherization-readiness package w/ program paths: Real, Proven, One-of-one

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

advanced

Open until

2027-07-07

Posted by

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The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

• camera
• tape measure + flashlight (attic/crawl/basement/rim joist)
• low-cost CO monitor (spot screening at combustion appliances)
• incense stick or smoke pencil (qualitative draft tracing, no blower door)
• tablet/clipboard with the weatherization-readiness checklist
• thermal/IR camera (optional, insulation-gap scope)

Steps

1. 1. Confirm scope with the household and record what they actually feel: the cold rooms, the drafts, the winter bill they want lower. Their comfort targets frame the package: this is their claim of a warmer home, not a generic energy audit.
2. 2. Inventory the envelope by assembly with photos: attic insulation presence + approximate depth/R-level, accessible wall/floor/rim-joist insulation, window/door condition and weatherstripping, and visible bypasses (top plates, chases, recessed lights, attic hatch).
3. 3. Trace drafts qualitatively (smoke pencil/incense at suspect points on a breezy day or with exhaust fans running) and rank the air-sealing targets; note that quantitative blower-door verification belongs to the weatherization contractor.
4. 4. Screen combustion safety BEFORE tightening is planned: photograph each combustion appliance + venting, take a CO spot reading, and flag anything (orphaned water heater, corroded flue, suspected backdrafting) that a BPI-qualified pro must clear before ANY air-sealing proceeds.
5. 5. Check moisture prerequisites: any active leak, bulk-water entry, or damp assembly gets sequenced ahead of insulation (never insulate a wet assembly), and note ventilation needs after tightening (bath/kitchen exhaust, fresh-air strategy).
6. 6. Assemble the weatherization-readiness package: ranked air-sealing targets, insulation gaps by assembly with rough quantities, combustion-safety flags that gate the work, moisture prerequisites, ventilation-after-tightening notes, and the utility/WAP program paths the household may qualify for.
7. 7. Enter photos, GPS/address, the assembly inventory, CO readings, and the readiness package; sign. Route combustion clearance to a BPI-qualified pro and installation to insured insulation contractors, the survey scopes, it never installs.

What counts as done

• Household comfort targets (cold rooms / drafts / bill pain) recorded in their own words
• Photo inventory of every envelope assembly (attic/wall/floor/rim, windows/doors) with approximate insulation levels
• CO spot readings at each combustion appliance with any tightening-gate flag named
• GPS / address confirm
• Weatherization-readiness package: ranked air-sealing targets, insulation gaps w/ rough quantities, moisture prerequisites, ventilation-after-tightening notes, candidate utility/WAP paths

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Weatherization Readiness. Weatherization readiness is the survey that turns a cold, expensive-to-heat home into a fundable plan. Following the Department of Energy's program, the surveyor maps where the house leaks air, which attics and walls lack insulation, what fresh-air path must follow the tightening, and which safety checks must clear first. Mastery looks like a walkthrough that ends with a package a weatherization crew can price without a second visit. This packet is one piece of one such survey, done carefully and written down, so a real family's real house gets closer to warm.