Chef-Level Home Kitchen? Chef-Level Exhaust Hood. Don't Be Lame.

From 'Home Diagnosis' Season 2 Ep7: For all of us upping our home kitchen game, it's important to be reminded that the most important piece of equipment in the kitchen, and in fact in the entire air quality system of the home, is the kitchen exhaust hood. Don't let your kitchen designer or your glossy home makeover magazine tell you different. See the entire episode at: https://homediagnosis.tv/episode-207-slow-burn See our own home's Ultimate Kitchen Exhaust System: https://buildingperformanceworkshop.com/blog/2021/5/15/how-to-design-install-and-test-a-perfect-kitchen-exhaust-and-make-up-air-system

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How to Choose a Filter for Healthy Home HVAC: Capturing Particles vs. Chemicals

Explained using the three most available high quality filter types (MERV 11, 13 and 16), I offer a quick tour through the size range of the invisible stuff you don't want to breathe. The black carbon filter is an Aprilaire 413CBN (https://shop.aprilaire.com/collections/carbon-odor-reduction-air-filters).

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Testing for Toxic Chemicals in Duct Insulation

The question: is what I’m smelling hurting me or not? Explore the material science of insulation that smells like cat pee in this fun chemical deep dive with Dr. Alice Delia, laboratory director at Prism Analytical Technologies.

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Cleaning Ductless Mini-Splits

Home Diagnosis co-host Corbett Lunsford found out that his HVAC maintenance schedule was not adequate. In the highest performance tiny house on wheels in the world, the air quality goes downhill fast if you don't service the equipment. This is not a bash on mini-splits, it's a bash on how busy our lives get, and how many of us forget to maintain the machines that make our lives comfortable.

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Tiny House Reality: Ants, Cats, and Kids

Wonder what it's like to live in a 200 sq ft single room that's always being cleaned because it's sticky and/or wet from two amazing toddlers and two charming cats, while building a big house and making a television show and trying to make money too? Here. Here you go.

The 4 P's to Solve Any Indoor Air Quality Problem

xEffortless Rocking means not trying to re-invent the wheel. Plenty of great home performance minds came before you, so take their ideas and make them your own. This one comes from Joe Lstiburek and John Straube at https://buildingscience.com/.

OZONE: the Original Villain of Indoor Chemistry

Indoor Air Quality is being explored at breakneck speed with the HOMEChem Experiment, and not surprisingly, ozone (O3) is proving to be the original villain in the complex system of interactions that make the air we breathe much more worrisome than anyone guessed. Featuring HOMEChem scientists Marina Vance, Delphine Farmer, Charlie Weschler, and Richard Corsi.

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IAQ Sensors: Human Nose vs. Mass Spectrometer

Charlie Weschler sits down with Grace and Corbett and gives fascinating examples of the complexity of indoor air chemistry. He is an air quality legend, a professor on 3 continents, and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. More at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/homechem

How to Service, Disassemble, and Clean a Mitsubishi MSZ-FH06NA Ductless Minisplit

See a demonstration of taking apart and cleaning the Mitsubishi Electric FH-series ductless minisplit heat pump.  Thanks to Garrett Beneker of Lincoln Air in Phoenix, AZ for sharing his expertise, and to Jim Clark of Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating for introducing us!