Need a CF-1R or CF-3R tomorrow?
HVAC change-out testing and Title 24 documentation for contractors. HERS/ECC field verification and paperwork — we do not install equipment. Results registered the same day when the registry allows. Site visits are scheduled, not same-day promises.
Third-party rater. If it fails, you hear it with numbers. We will not fake a pass.
Paid work
HVAC change-out testing plus Title 24 docs.
CF-1R at permit. CF-3R in the CHEERS registry. Ducts, airflow, and the forms the inspector is waiting on. Testing and paperwork, not a crew on your change-out.
Request a ratingFree through the utilities
Energy-code training for building departments.
Energy Code Ace and IOU-funded classes for plans examiners, building inspectors, and contractors. No tuition to the city. Bruce Cheney teaches. Contractors in the room who need a test: request a rating.
See Training EventsSame-day registry
When CHEERS allows it — not a same-day visit
Third-party rater
We will not fake a pass
Since 2009
Southern California practice
No-cost BD training
Title 24 for building departments
What we do
One practice for the paper and the field.
Field verification
HERS/ECC ratings in San Diego
HVAC change-out testing in San Diego: CHEERS HERS/ECC field verification, ducts, airflow, QII, CF-3R. Results registered the same day when the registry allows. We do not install equipment.
Energy code
Title 24 documentation for San Diego permits
CF-1R Title 24 documentation for HVAC change-outs, residential, and ADUs in San Diego County. Paperwork, not installation. Does not sit in a queue.
Existing homes
Whole-house audits
Building-science investigation of an existing house: blower door, ducts, and a punch list. Third-party. We do not sell or install equipment.
Public agencies
Energy code for building departments
No-cost Title 24 Part 6 instruction for California building departments — plans examiners, inspectors, and counter staff. Free through the utilities and Energy Code Ace.
Accessory dwellings
ADUs
Title 24 documentation and HERS/ECC field verification for backyard units — so the ADU gets a permit, not a punch list.
Buying a home
Home inspections
A full real-estate home inspection for people buying a new or existing house in Southern California.
How a job runs
No surprise measures the week of drywall.
California energy code is specific. We make each stakeholder’s role equally specific — then we show up and measure.
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Call or send the job
A permit set, a failing CF3R, a change-out that needs testing, or a building department that wants a class. We will tell you what we need and what we do not.
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Scope it in plain language
Which tests, which forms, which site visits, and who owns each signature. No surprise HERS/ECC measures the week of drywall.
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Show up and measure
Field work on the building’s schedule. Results registered the same day whenever the provider and the site allow it.
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Leave you with a path
A passing rating, a punch list, or a training deck — and a phone number that still works after the invoice.
The firm
A veteran-owned shop that still answers the phone.
Anchors Aweigh Energy was started in 2009 on a simple idea: detailed, unbiased information for the people who have to decide. The principals bring more than thirty years of building science and engineering. CEO Bruce Cheney has been instructing building departments on energy code since 2013.
- Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business
- HERS/ECC raters via CHEERS
- Subject-matter experts for three California IOUs
- BPI Building Analyst training and proctoring
- Title 24 Part 6 instructors to building departments since 2013
Who books the test.
HVAC contractors
Change-out testing and Title 24 paperwork. CF-1R / CF-3R so the inspector can close the job. We do not install the unit.
Builders & trades
New construction, additions, changeouts. We keep the HERS/ECC path and the Title 24 path from colliding at inspection.
Architects & designers
Early advice on which measures you are triggering, so the details on sheet A-4.2 match the CF1R.
Building departments
No-cost Title 24 instruction for examiners, inspectors, and counter staff. Offered since 2013. Free through the utilities.
Field notes
Read before you remodel.
Service area
Southern California, out of San Diego.
- San Diego County
- Orange County
- Riverside County
- San Bernardino County
- Los Angeles County
- Imperial County
- Ventura County
Book the test
Request a rating.
HVAC change-out testing and Title 24 paperwork. Third-party. We will not fake a pass.