Home energy audit.

Finally, tomorrow I have some one coming to do a home energy audit.
The sad thing about it is, I have to let the wood stove cool down, so, I just put in a final load, and will be cranking it up today, with the hopes that it will burn out and cool down by morning. 22 hours from now.
Luckily, we have the pellet stove that we can keep the living room near room temp with, and, if need be, I will turn the dial up on the dreaded base board heaters. I just cringe at that thought.
The good news with that is, I can empty out some ash, and, do a dollar bill test. I have noticed lately that the front of the fire box is burning completely down, while I still have lots of coals at the back and side walls. I figure there may be an air leak. But, saying that, I have run a lighter flame around the door seal, and it doesn't seem to be sucking the flame in.

Great, just got a message from the wife. Pellet stove won't light. And I am at work. Not looking good for her tonight.

Well, stove is clean from all ashes, chimney swept. Just waiting for the energy audit company to come in and do their job so I can get this fire going again. It's freezing in here.

Well, I did do the dollar bill test, and there is no way to move anything between that door and gasket. So, I'm going to say it is normal.
When the energy audit was here, they wanted all fires out and cooled so they could test air leakage. Funny thing is, there was no smoke to test for air leakage, just running our hands around window sills, outlets and the likes, and, there was no heat cameras. Kind of weird. I thought for sure they would have done that. You know, look into the walls. Pretty disappointed actually.
It took a total of 1.5 hours. One hour was taking photos and measurements, checking the attic. The rest of the time was checking for air leakage.
I finally got to light the stove when he left, and I still can't get the house up to temp. This sucks.
This may be a reason though.

No, unfortunately, not free. Audit was $150, his travel fee was $75. He had to drive an hour to get here.
Now, I have to find some one with an IR, or, find some where that I could rent one from.