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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
USA

773.398.5288

Advanced residential construction and home improvement consulting and owner's advocacy in Atlanta, using the latest building performance diagnostic and modeling techniques and tools. Airtightness, insulation, HVAC, ventilation, moisture, and air quality and EMF consulting for homeowners and building professionals alike.

Videos/Podcasts/Articles

Home performance articles and stories from the field with internationally respected building forensics guru Corbett Lunsford at the Building Performance Workshop. Hear new episodes of the Building Performance Podcast, see new videos from the Home Performance YouTube channel, and learn all about how diagnostic testing (more than an 'Energy Audit') can make home improvement and new home construction a proven process!

Manual S Deep Dive: Selecting HVAC Equipment Based on Manual J Load Calcs- Part 2 of 2

Corbett Lunsford

Picking up where we left off in Part 1 (https://youtu.be/LEKEMI05dJE), Alex Meaney shows a design where a 3.5 ton, a 4 ton, and a 5 ton air conditioner all match a Manual J load, and explores the fine points of practical applications of the 3 rules of Manual S: 1. Select equipment that can handle 100% of the humidity load (latent heat) at minimum 2. Select equipment that does not exceed cooling load by too much (15% for single stage equip, 20% for 2-stage, 30% for variable capacity) 3. Select equipment that does not exceed total capacity by too much (but this rule must be broken in some cases)

Check out Alex Meaney's trainings: https://MeanHVAC.com

Watch Matt Risinger's video on the Build Show about my Manual J report tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL-_VjlYnD0