We adeptly combine insulation, air sealing, ventilation, and electrification to boost your building’s efficiency and comfort while promoting sustainability, whether as standalone projects or integrated into wider renovations. Each project is scoped out with performance goals in mind, and is guided by building science, not a bias for a particular product or service.
Systems thinking is applied to ensure comfort, health, and durability are at the core of our solutions.
Our tradespeople understand the goals of the project and provide quality workmanship.
A project manager provides a single point of accountability.
We work within the existing processes for property
management. We only focus on what we do best.
Thermal insulation is the blanket wrapped around your house to reduce the transmission of heat when it’s cold outside. Trim Tab has insulators that will top up attics, fill or blanket bare walls, and apply spray foam strategically to provide thermal resistance and a continuous air barrier.
An air barrier is like a windbreaker wrapped around your house to prevent the infiltration of cold air, smoke, noise, and allergens, either from outside or a neighbouring unit.
Trim Tab combines conventional methods of air sealing with an advanced technology called Aerobarrier to seal up the building envelope and shared walls.
Ductwork distributes conditioned air throughout the home to ensure fresh air and even temperatures throughout. Unfortunately, a lot of conditioned air does not make it to its destination because it leaks out of the ducts. This results in uneven temperatures. When the ductwork is in the attic or crawl space, it also leads to heated or cooled air being wasted. Using an advanced technology called Aeroseal, we can seal up most air leakage from inside the ducts, while only having to access your ducts from the utility room.
If you seal it tight, then you need to ventilate it right. Good indoor air quality requires the right amount of fresh air exchange, while keeping the heat in. Energy recovery ventilators (ERVs), or “fresh air machines,” provide the solution. Trim Tab specializes in specifying and installing ERVs to keep the indoor air fresh.
Augmenting or replacing a furnace or boiler with a high efficiency air source heat pump allows you to tap into Ontario’s clean electricity supply while also gaining (or enhancing) central air conditioning to handle hot summer days. Trim Tab will determine, install, and commission the heat pump solution that’s right for you as well as upgrade any supporting electrical infrastructure.
An energy efficient home is also a smart home. Trim Tab will utilize advanced controls to optimize your heating system, schedule your water heater to utilize cheap, off-peak electricity, and benchmark the home’s energy use intensity.
Trim Tab addresses the need for affordability, modern comfort, and indoor air quality all at once through a packaged solution of energy retrofits. Trim Tab recognizes that not.all buildings are the same, and that solutions must be tailored to specific housing segments to achieve these important outcomes. Within a segment, Trim Tab will help clients standardize their solution to achieve economies of scale.
Tailored energy retrofits enhance your living environment. Enjoy a quieter, more comfortable and energy-efficient home wrapped in sustainability.
Experience utility savings and improved comfort in your attached home. Our retrofit services ensure seamless enhancements, perfect for shared walls where efficiency matter for both privacy and performance.
Elevate the living standards of entire communities with smart retrofit solutions. We’ll help you
achieve balanced temperatures and improve air quality through your multi-level space, boosting efficiency and tenant satisfaction alike.
We partners with building scientists to take a holistic view of your housing stock. Combining the viewpoints of building scientists and experienced tradespeople ensures the best solutions to meet your goals.
We will assist you to prepare applications for implementation funding. Trim Tab will coordinate all rebates on your behalf.
We coordinate and supervise a team of skilled trades people to ensure the work is executed on-plan during the window of owner/tenant turnover. Our goal is to integrate seamlessly with your renovation or property management process.
How does your unit track against its stated performance goals after the retrofit? We will dig into the data to answer that question.
Advisor to Trim Tab - President, Building Knowledge Canada
There are few professionals in Ontario that can match Gord Cooke’s broad knowledge of the inner workings of a house. Highly regarded in the Ontario homebuilding industry, Gord is a professional engineer, trainer, author, and industry consultant. For over 35 years, Gord has helped builders and HVAC contractors implement innovative technologies and build better homes. He is an effective and passionate educator and advocate for better building practices, improved indoor air quality, and energy efficiency. Most recently, Gord was awarded one of just five “hall of fame” 2022 Clean50 Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Advisor to Trim Tab - Retired CEO, AtlasCare
Roger Grochmal is a professional engineer and seasoned business leader in the HVAC contracting industry. He is the retired CEO and owner of AtlasCare and is a life member of both ASHRAE and HRAI. He is the recipient of HRAI’s Merit Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development and progress of the Institute and the Canadian HVACR industry. He currently sits on the Board of Governors of George Brown College working to develop the next generation of business leaders.
CEO/Founder of Trim Tab
Tom is a professional engineer who grew up in a family that ran a heating and cooling business serving homeowners for over 30 years. Tom branched out and made a career in the utility sector, responsible for the design and delivery of energy efficiency programs for homes and businesses with his work for Enbridge Gas. Tom believes in the power of energy efficiency to affect positive change and wants to show his three children a better future.
