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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
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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!

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How to Teach Builders about Home Performance

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett presented for Broan-Nutone and Fantech at the International Builders Show (IBS) 2018 in Orlando, and in case you weren't there, here it is! Learn all about why builders, manufacturers, contractors, insulators, HVAC techs, and others in the construction industry are starting to care about, and act upon, the metrics that come from home performance testing.

Thanks as always to the sponsors who are leading the charge in making measured performance mainstream with 'Home Diagnosis' coming to TV screens soon! 

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categories Performance Pros, Tiny Houses, Testing Tools, Videos
tags ibs 2018, building science, building performance, performance testing, builder education, diagnostics, testing expert, home diagnosis, house doctor, hvac testing, infrared thermography, duct testing, blower door, builders show, orlando, fantech, broan, nutone, ventilation, erv, hrv, ventilator, recovery, balanced

Testing Custom HVAC Grilles with a Blower Door

Corbett Lunsford

Watch home performance testing guru Corbett Lunsford test the pressure, airflow, and velocity performance of some beautiful custom carved wooden return grilles, using just a blower door kit, a homemade box, and an anemometer. Grilles made by Stellar Engraving by Vencor Inc. (http://vencorinc.com). Test performed out of the back of Corbett's pickup truck in Atlanta GA! Yeehaw!

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categories Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Videos
tags hvac testing, hvac expert, custom grille, wooden grill, register, airflow, return, duct, tightness, leakage, blower door, advanced, technique, diagnostics expert, vencor inc, stellar engraving, building performance, hvac performance, static pressure, pressure drop, anemometer, dwyer instruments

Installing & Testing a Mitsubishi Ductless Mini-Split

Corbett Lunsford

Building Performance Workshop's Corbett Lunsford, with expert help from Uplifting Air's Brad Lemley, installs and commissions a 1/2 ton Mitsubishi ductless mini-split heat pump on the #TinyLab tiny house on wheels for the Proof Is Possible Tour. Come see us in 20 cities across the US at: http://ProofisPossible.com

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags Tiny house design, tiny house performance, home performance testing, hvac testing, A/C, commissioning, micron gauge, micron test, brad lemley, uplifting air, #tinylab, #tinyhouse, tiny house on wheels, engineering, heat load, half ton, 6, 6000 btu, minisplit, isee sensor, infrared, heat pump

Corbett's Toolkit: Anemometer & Flow Hood

Corbett Lunsford

Performance testing guru Corbett Lunsford shows you how to find the grille K-factor for every supply register in the house, by using a CFM measuring device like a passive flow hood on just one. Learn to use a $500 large vane anemometer to the fullest by pairing it with a bigger, more expensive instrument selectively.
Tools shown are Testo 417 large vane anemometer and TSI residential flow hood.

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categories Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Videos
tags airflow testing, home performance, performance testing, hvac testing, hvac diagnostics, measuring airflow, bpi airflow, hers hvac