Check Northside Public Library, Helena MT for drafts and insulation gaps.

Northside Public Library, Helena MT's rooms may be cold in winter and no one has mapped where the heat is escaping. Walk it once, note the drafts, and give the site a simple weatherization checklist.

Where

Northside Public Library, Helena MT · Open the map

Pay

$520 proposed

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Proof

photo assembly inventory + GPS + CO spot readings + draft-trace notes + the ranked weatherization-readiness package w/ program paths

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-11-30

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How this work is done

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

Bring

• camera
• tape measure + flashlight (attic, crawlspace, mechanical rooms, rim joist)
• low-cost CO monitor for spot readings at combustion appliances
• smoke pencil or incense stick for qualitative draft tracing (no blower door)
• tablet/clipboard with the weatherization-readiness checklist and the building's floor plan
• thermal/IR camera (optional, insulation-gap scope)

Steps

1. 1. Confirm scope with the facility manager or building engineer and record what the BUILDING actually reports: which zones run cold or hot, which complaints recur, what the utility bills and any prior energy study already say, and which capital-planning cycle this scope has to land in. Ask for the building's own records first, because an institutional building usually has them and a home usually does not.
2. 2. Establish the constraints a home does not have, before scoping anything: occupancy hours and which spaces can be taken out of service, whether the building is historic or otherwise protected, whether the roof is under warranty, whether any assembly is fire-rated, and who holds the service contracts on the mechanical systems.
3. 3. Inventory the envelope by assembly with photos: attic or roof-deck insulation presence and approximate depth/R-value, accessible wall/floor/rim-joist insulation, window and door condition and weatherstripping, and visible bypasses (top plates, chases, shafts, recessed lights, roof hatches, unsealed penetrations between conditioned and unconditioned space).
4. 4. Trace drafts qualitatively at suspect points with the exhaust systems running, and rank the air-sealing targets. Note that quantitative verification belongs to the installing contractor, and that a building of this size is normally verified zone by zone rather than with a single whole-building test.
5. 5. Screen combustion safety BEFORE any tightening is planned: photograph each combustion appliance and its venting, take a CO spot reading, and flag anything (orphaned water heater, corroded flue, suspected backdrafting, a boiler room that draws combustion air from a space about to be sealed) that a BPI-qualified professional or the building's mechanical contractor must clear before ANY air-sealing proceeds.
6. 6. Check the moisture prerequisites: any active leak, bulk-water entry or damp assembly is sequenced AHEAD of insulation, because insulating a wet assembly buys a bigger problem. Note the ventilation consequence of tightening, and confirm any change against the building's required outdoor-air rate rather than a residential rule of thumb.
7. 7. Assemble the 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 funding paths an institution can actually use (utility commercial incentive programs, state energy office and school-facility grants, performance contracting) rather than the income-eligible residential programs, which a public building cannot qualify for.
8. 8. Enter photos, GPS/address, the assembly inventory, CO readings and the readiness package, and hand it to the facility manager in the form their capital planning uses; sign. The walk scopes work, it never installs.

What counts as done

• Comfort targets (cold rooms / drafts / bill pain) recorded in the occupant's own words
• Photo inventory of envelope assemblies (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, moisture prerequisites, candidate program paths

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.