Customer Reviews

Sleik - Arnold, MO

My home has been repaired as good as new - you can no longer tell I had a fire. The professionals at Home Options Made Easy took care of everything and I am VERY happy with the results! After working with Home Options Made Easy I would recommend them to anyone simply for the fact that they were honest, friendly, and took the time to answer my questions! I will work with them again should the need arise.

Customer Reviews

Elizabeth R. 8-16-18

Kyle came out and met with my Insurance Adjuster and did all the work for me! He was able to point out additional things that had been damaged by the storm and make sure they were replaced as well. The work started about 2 weeks after getting approval from the Insurance Company and the job was done in just a few days! His crew took care of all the clean up! Now I have a beautifully updated roof for my home. I will use Kyle again for my next Home Improvement project.

Customer Reviews

Linda F

I used this company to put new windows in my condo and they did a fantastic job! They had my windows installed in one day and cleaned up after themselves when they were done. The price was half of what Andersen Windows were quoting me and other window companies were quoting me plus, I got better windows than the other companies were trying to sell me!




$129 - 32 Point Energy Audit

Looking at replacing your water heater but don’t know if it is worth it? Considering new energy-efficient windows? Before making individual efficiency upgrades, it’s important to know how your home uses energy. A home energy audit is the first step to saving energy and money. Making energy efficiency upgrades identified in a home energy audit can save 5-30 percent on your monthly energy bill while also ensuring the health and safety of your house.


Energy Audits sometimes called an energy assessment, a home energy audit helps you learn how you use energy, determine where it’s being wasted and prioritize your efficiency upgrades. Our Energy Audits include a pdf report emailed to you of photographed documentation, and associated recommendations list. Often the in-house auditor will offer some same day install of small things that can make a dramatic impact for the cost. In addition, the auditor can offer estimates on any other recommended projects we offer or referral to other professionals on things we do not offer that will directly impact your savings.


During your professional energy audit, our energy auditor analyzes your energy bills, completes visual, health and safety inspections, and may use special equipment -- such as a blower door, smoke stick, laser surface temp thermometer, and/or an infrared camera -- to detect sources of energy loss. Your Energy Audit consists of: HVAC analysis, Electric Usage Analysis, Proper Efficient Construction analysis, all three categories have common things and share similar guided purpose. These analyses combined give us the ability to customize the most impactful solutions for our customers. And offer different steps to work towards your best solution. Based on the data collected, an energy audit will provide you with a comprehensive home energy report that shows which energy efficiency upgrades are best for your home and your potential energy savings.


While not as thorough as a professional home energy audit, you can conduct your own simple home energy audit. A do-it-yourself home energy audit -- or walk through -- can help you pinpoint some of the low-hanging fruit when it comes to energy efficiency upgrades. If you’re looking to see how much you could save by making certain upgrades, check out Energy Star Home Energy Saver, a free online home energy audit tool.


Remember, the home energy audit is only the first step to cutting your energy bills. Making the recommended energy efficiency upgrades is what leads to energy savings.


What are the key facts to take from Energy Audit?


  • A home energy audit is the first step to saving energy and money.
  • It helps you learn how you use energy, determine where it’s being wasted and prioritize your efficiency upgrades.
  • Making energy efficiency upgrades identified in a home energy audit can you save 5-30 percent on your monthly energy bill.

Give us a call at our sister company proSOLAR+314-703-3888 to schedule your Energy Audit today



Solar Inspection/Analysis

Solar is the way of the future for most major markets, this includes our market here in the St. Louis metro area. Solar unfortunately isn’t always a fully functional solution on every house. For the system to produce the amount of power it’s supposed to, in ideal circumstances you want a south to southwest facing slope for the rooftop solar to maximize the production of energy. We will sit down with you and go through the last 3 months energy bills to determine what size and scope of solar system will meet your needs to the best of our ability. We will pull satellite image reports for home owners to aid in determining optimum placement for the installed rooftop solar panels. When we get phone calls from customers interested in solar, we ask for three things. First, your name, address, phone number and appointment time, so we can do our homework, and know where and when we will meet the customer. Second, we ask that you be prepared for solar analysis, ideally, we like to go through a minimum of 3 months of utility bills with you, and ideally, we want the annual usage bar graphs usually updated quarterly on bills for customers, that shows, this year’s usage compared to last year, as well as shows the whole last year’s usage showing. This allows us to most accurately break down and give you a complete solar analysis for your property. Because we not only offer solar installation service, but also DIY-install kits to the customers that want to do self-installation. We will go to every customer for Solar Inspection/Analysis. We will help you determine size and style and appropriate mount for your system. Within the design time, we take your available appropriate square footage, facing the appropriate direction, and decide based on power usage, and that available square footage, what the most optimum use of money and space is, to work out the best design options available for your solar installation project. And we will give you the satellite report.

Key facts of Solar Analysis

  • Analysis is First Step of a 4 to 6-week process to get moving
  • Take approved functional solar analysis and site plan to next step with the engineered solar drawing
  • Solar is great for about 75-80 % of buildings in our market, but there is that chance, that if facing poor direction, that rooftop solar may not be appropriate or at very least optimally functional

Contact us to set up your Solar Inspection

Solar Inspection


Engineered Solar Drawing


The first step to getting any Solar Installation for your house is to get a permit. To obtain a permit in our region you must go to the local municipal or county building permit office and submit Engineered Solar Drawings of the proposed solar system. To create these engineered drawings a Solar Inspection/Analysis must be completed. The Solar Inspection/Analysis is necessary to have before the Engineered Solar Drawing because the proposed site plan, slope (of roof or ground), and accurate dimensions, will be required by the person creating the engineered drawing for your project.


After you have the Solar Inspection/Analysis complete you can get your Engineered Solar Drawings created. These engineered drawings and analytic break downs take hours of time and drawing. Furthermore, they must be stamped by the manufacturer, or a Licensed Solar/Electrical Engineer.


So, whether you are interested in self-installation (DIY) or having us complete the installation for you, an Engineered Solar Drawing is required to obtain your permit. Home Options Made Easy can obtain official Engineered Solar Drawing for you. The charge for getting the engineered solar drawings for your DIY project is $1195.

Give us a call at proSOLAR at +314-703-3888 to take the first step in your Solar Installation today



Solar Panel Installation

Solar costs have declined significantly and are at their lowest point in over 30 years. Solar is now more affordable than ever and advances in technology have improved system quality and design. On average the total cost of grid-tied solar installation can be between $15,000 to $29,000 for average sized systems sized between 4kW and 8kW.2 The size of systems measured by kW output truly depend on the power needs of the home or business and the available area for the system to be installed upon. Whether roof top or ground array it makes no significant difference. We offer custom systems of all sizes, as small as 4kW and exceeding 100kW for large commercial applications. Homes in our market shouldn’t require anything much larger than 14-25kW to eliminate electric bills completely.

Home Options Made Easy lets you get started with your solar installation for as little as $0 down and helps you lower your electric bill. Both the cost of the Solar Inspection/Analysis and the Engineered Solar Drawing are built into our installed pricing. We do this by deducting the upfront costs, Site Analysis and the Engineered Drawing Fee from your job total upon completion of installation.

There are hundreds of options from manufacturer, to style of power invertors, styles of mounting, size of panels, panel output, and many more. Due to our distribution channel we work with all the major manufacturers nationally and globally to get the best solution for our customers that we can. Our systems are designed with solar panels by manufacturers like: Sharp, LG, SolarWorld, Trina Solar, Hanwha, Yingli, Kyocera, REC, ReneSola and Silevo. We even source custom solar panels for discontinued Shell and BP PV modules. Roof and ground mounting kits are available by Prosolar, Uni-Rac, Direct Power, SnapNrack, Renusol, Solega and many others. Inverter choices include: Fronius, SMA Sunny Boy, Satcon, PV Powered, Schneider Electric, Solectria Renewables, Enphase Energy, Outback Power and our preferred inverter manufacturer SolarEdge.

The ever-changing solar industry is not significantly different from the computer/cell phone industries because of the constant growth and updates makes keeping stock in house virtually impossible. We order in materials for solar installations one job at a time. Typically, solar installation is typically a long process. In some cases it can take 6-16 weeks to get totally through the process, and get your new system turned on. Solar installation requires building inspection by the municipality or county and an inspection by the electric company before you can even turn on the system to begin making power. In addition, paperwork requires net metering agreement, and bidirectional meters be installed by utility company, prior to starting your system. Rebates and incentives are also now at all time highs nationally and in our market are back again, for at least the short term on systems getting installed January 1st, 2019. Currently there are solar jobs preselling in our market for January installs to take advantage of the additional incentives toward your solar projects. Please contact us as soon as possible to maximize your incentives. Time is running out, because there is only funding for so many of these jobs in our market, so please act now by calling us at +314-703-3888, and get started toward your energy efficient savings plan, and maximize your incentives and deductions before all the funding runs out.

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Solar Installation





Radiant Barriers


There are hundreds of radiant barriers available in our market. There are stronger and weaker points to each manufacturer, for different reasons. A radiant barrier is more or less a whole house size vehicle emergency blanket. It often looks like tin foil to untrained eye. A radiant barrier, in conjunction with the proper attic ventilation and insulation, is one of the easiest and most cost-effective solutions on the market for increasing energy efficiency, preventing vapor lock and decreasing likelihood of ice damming for homes.


In the summer radiant barriers reflect heat out of attic space. Instead of allowing the insulation to absorb heat and store in your attic for hours upon hours forcing air conditioners to cycle more and costing you money.


In winter it is a last barrier above the insulation. The barrier reflects rising heat from the house into the attic space to stay stored in the insulation, also countering the furnace cycling more to keep your house warm. Most of the radiant barriers on the market are vapor permeable, which allows moisture vapors to travel through it, but does not allow water to pass through, which is an added benefit of home protection.

Give us a call at +636-333-3346 to schedule your Radiant Barrier installation today.



Attic Insulation

You are probably among the 90% of US homes that are under-insulated, performing a simple insulation inspection will help you determine your insulation needs. Having the correct amount of attic insulation can help you maintain a comfortable temperature throughout your home, increase home value, help save money on your energy bills, and prevent major issues like ice dams in the winter. In our market that insulation R-value is recommended to be R-38 to R-50 for optimum effect. This equates to approx. 14-16 inches of insulation depending on type of product.

There are four main types of home insulation products on the market today: fiberglass insulation, mineral wool insulation, cellulose insulation, and spray foam insulation. We usually use fiberglass or cellulose insulation in our installations. The type of insulation material you choose has little impact on your energy savings. There are 3 things that impact the efficiency of your insulation and the return on your investment:

  1. Correct installation
  2. Proper air sealing
  3. Getting the most insulation R-value per dollar

In January of 2016, Remodeler Magazine released its annual “Cost vs. Value” report, which breaks down both the cost and return on investment of many of the most common home improvement options. Adding fiberglass attic insulation was included in the report for the first time, and it topped the list in terms of the percentage of your initial investment you would recoup in the form of increased home value at 117%. This figure only speaks to what it does to your home’s value, it does not even account for any possible energy bill savings. The results of this survey demonstrate that re-insulating to your home can improve its value. It literally pays to invest in the energy efficiency of your home. There are federal, state, and even some local utility financial incentives and rebate programs available to homeowners interested in insulating and other energy efficient home improvements.

Insulating is one of the most cost-effective ways to stop overspending on your energy bill. According to the Energy Star program “homeowners can save an average of 15% on heating and cooling costs (or an average of 11% on total energy costs) by air sealing their homes and adding insulation in attics, floors over crawl spaces, and accessible basement rim joists.” Your savings potential could be even greater—especially if you are in an older home. Now is the time to be thinking about energy savings. Most homes are leaking energy, so insulating and air sealing is like plugging these leaks—and taming the skyrocketing costs that go along with them. Since 2004, residential electricity prices across the US have risen nearly 40% and changes in the utility industry suggest this trend is likely to continue. As energy costs continue to grow at a much faster rate than the average income, energy will cost will demand an even greater share of your bank account in the future. Re-insulating today is a practical approach to protecting yourself from these increased costs.

Any time you see icicles dangling from gutters, it is a sign of a potentially costly problem in a home. If you live in an area that experiences significant snowfall and consistently cold temperatures, your home is a candidate for forming ice dams. If you believe your home is a candidate for ice dams or you’ve had them before, you need to air seal and insulate before winter sets in. As snow melts on the roof, that meltwater drips downward toward the edge and the gutter. However, if it’s cold enough, the drips re-freeze at the colder roof edge, which means the water does not drain. This frozen water forms a “dam” which prevents drainage and can cause water to leech back into your home, either into the ceiling/attic or down into the walls below. You can do the job yourself or hire us to ensure it is done right. Either way, pay special attention to ensuring the roof insulation is installed properly where the roof meets the wall. Ice dam solutions for a given home may not be limited to air sealing and insulation, but it is a necessary component.

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Attic Insulation

Window or Door Replacement

One of the largest energy losses in the home are existing windows and doors. Particularly if those windows and doors are over 15-20 years old. Old steel/aluminum frame windows lose 75% more energy than the new energy star compliant windows and doors that could be installed. We do not compete with the $199 window guys - at least not directly. If you were to get a “$199 window estimate”, the estimate would include fully trimmed and insulated installation, disposal, and all the other pieces necessary. In the end the estimate typically ends up hitting around $475 or more per window. That is where we are as well. We offer windows from 3 preferred manufacturers; however, we can work with almost any brand or style you may come up with. The three manufacturers we work with most often, the average pricing has windows at $481, $574, and $659 per window. But because we know the market and 100s of options we have windows starting at $473/ window and going up to $1461/window depending on what you pick.

Give us a call at +636-333-3346 to get a bid on your new window or door.