How our advice stays free
Our advice costs you nothing. If you hire one of our vetted contractors and the job goes ahead, the contractor pays us a referral fee of 5% of the pre-tax price. That's the whole model, and we explain it at the start of every call.
What that means for you
You never get an invoice from us. Not for the call, not for the follow-up.
We're only paid if you go ahead. If you decide to wait, or not to do anything, that's fine with us. Contractors tell us our leads save them the time and cost of sending a salesperson to qualify you, so they absorb our fee rather than add it to your quote. And of course, you’re under no obligation to do anything.
What we don't sell
CutYourHomeCarbon doesn't sell heat pumps, furnaces, air conditioners, water heaters, solar panels or batteries. We don't make more money if you choose a bigger system or a pricier brand.
How we choose contractors
We started by asking national equipment distributors to name their best heat pump installers. We now work with 12 to 14 contractors across Ontario, one or two in each area. We drop any whose work doesn't hold up. Every one is registered for Ontario's Home Renovation Savings rebate, so you can get the rebates you qualify for.
40+ years
of experience in energy and sustainability
Meet our team
Richard Laszlo
Partner & President
richard@cutyourhomecarbon.com
416-509-0292
Richard has been working on energy and climate policy and technology for over 20 years with a variety of utility, government and industry clients, and has facilitated and spoken at dozens of events across Canada. Richard is passionate about transferring his knowledge and experience working on carbon reductions with large organizations to help homeowners cut their carbon.
Richard has an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from Queens, a masters in environmental studies from York, and is an adjunct professor at York University. Richard is proud to be the author of Pollution Probe’s first Primer on Energy Systems in Canada.
Tim Short
Partner
tim@cutyourhomecarbon.com
416-882-5856
Tim’s passion is being a community leader for governments, businesses, institutions and households on how to cut carbon, one home and building at a time. Tim has strong working knowledge and networks in the natural gas and electric utility sectors, renewable energy (solar, wind, renewable natural gas), storage (batteries, Power2Gas), electric vehicles (technology, industry and commercial charging networks), power generation (CHP, emergency generation) and energy conservation including heat pumps.
Tim holds a BA (Economics) from Queen's University, and an MA (Economics) and MBA from the University of Toronto.