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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
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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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Water Heater Safety: Combustion Testing and Inspection in a Home Renovation: Healthy Indoors Minute

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett finds an atmospheric draft water heater that's spilling its combustion gases into the home's basement. See the inspection and testing that go into the analysis of how to solve the issue, and learn to protect your clients and your own family in the process. Using a Wohler A450 combustion analyzer, Retrotec DM-32 and Cirrus Wind Indicator, all from https://TruTechTools.com.

See the 'Home Diagnosis' television series: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

Subscribe to Healthy Indoors and join the worldwide community: http://HealthyIndoors.com

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Videos
tags water heater, combustion safety, test, bpi, spillage, backdraft, how to, analyzer, pressure, chimney, flue, diagnostics, diagnosis, house, home improvement, dangerous, toxic

Testing Water Heater Spillage: Backdrafting Combustion Fumes from Natural Draft DHW

Corbett Lunsford

I've tested hundreds of combustion-fueled heating appliances, and this is way more common than you'd hope. Watch my friend Wade Thompson of Utah's amazing Intermountain Weatherization Training Center give a quick demonstration of how easy it is to pass and fail this important home health test.

See way more about Wade's work in Season 2 of Home Diagnosis: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

Check out Wade's organization: http://iwtcutah.org/

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, HVAC, Testing Tools, Videos
tags water heater, dhw, spilling, spill, spillage, test, diagnostics, combustion, zone, depressurization, whole house, caz

What Spillage Looks Like from a Water Heater

Corbett Lunsford

Testing for "spillage" of combustion gases means making sure the bad stuff that's supposed to go UP the chimney doesn't come back DOWN.  It's a critical part of home performance analysis, according to BPI, RESNET, and everyone else.  If you don't know what it looks like, you might feel a little lost- let your old pal Corbett the diagnostics guy show you the single most awesome example of what you shouldn't see in your clients' homes!

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Videos
tags water heater, spillage, spilling, fail, hvac fail, carbon monoxide, co, condensation, vapor, gases, combustion, natural draft, atmospheric draft, natural gas, tic tac toe, bpi, resnet, caz

PODCAST #49 THIS HOUSE SUCKS, BUT NOT VERY HARD: Brett Singer, scientist, shows us where depressurization testing has led us astray

Corbett Lunsford

Today we talk with Brett Singer, air quality scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, about the red herring of worst-case depressurization on combustion testing, and the actual hidden enemy in every home.

To download this episode or hear more, subscribe in iTunes or visit BuildingPerformancePodcast.com

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categories Podcast Episodes
tags brett singer, lbnl, lawrence berkeley, berkeley lab, worst case depressurization, bpi, worst case test, spillage, water heater, carbon monoxide, co, combustion testing, radio, podcas, interview, oven, kitchen exhaust, kitchen hood, exhaust hood, stove ventilation, ashrae, fresh air, hvac