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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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Central Vacuum System with HEPA Filter: Performance Testing for a Healthy Home

Corbett Lunsford

For our forever home, we chose the NuTone PurePower 650 central vacuum, which I piped, wired, and installed myself (not very difficult, though parts are hard to get ahold of in a hurry, if you run out).

Check out this system, and other Broan-NuTone machines: https://broan-nutone.com/

See the Testo 440 kit I'm using for the diagnostics: https://www.trutechtools.com/Testo-440

The HAVEN central duct system IAQ sensor I flashed to show the effectiveness of the HEPA filter: https://tzoa.com/

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categories Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Videos
tags central, vacuum, house, construction, new, home, build, diy, self, built, how to, test, diagnose, suction, noise, quiet, sound, sones, performance, quality, high, broan, nutone, nu tone, pure power

Testing a Radon Mitigation System

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett teams up with Fantech's aerospace engineer and radon system expert Hamid Massali to prove the radon mitigation field works, and find out how much airflow the radon fan will need to exhaust to maintain safe air quality indoors.

More on this PFEDK system at: https://shop.fantech.net/en-US/pfedk--rn--diagnostic--tool--kit/p401891

More on radon's health impacts at: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/radon/radon-fact-sheet

Corbett and Grace are not joking around- they will diagnose the crap out of the forever home they're building. Here's another example of creative testing that can tell us secrets about predicting and preventing failures in the indoor physics, chemistry, and microbiology of homes. Check out the Cirrus smoke tool, and others demo'd here: https://www.trutechtools.com/Cirrus-CWI200-Wind-Indicator

More on this house and the TV show at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead

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categories From the Field, Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Videos
tags radon, mitigation, field, fan, exhaust, test, diagnostic, kit, pfedk, fantech, inline, suction, vacuum, how to, how much, airflow, pressure, subslab, ventilation

Cleaning House May Be Bad for Your Family

Corbett Lunsford

Home Diagnosis co-host Corbett Lunsford explains why the HOMEChem scientists are saying cleaning might not be the answer for indoor chemistry. Explore the meaning of vacuuming with and without a HEPA filter, and where a central vacuum system should be installed to keep from totally messing up your indoor physics and chemistry. Subscribe to Healthy Indoors Magazine for free at: http://HealthyIndoors.com

Check out this NuTone HEPA central vac system at: http://www.nutone.com/purepower

More on this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead

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categories Homeowner education, Real Estate, Videos
tags nutone, pure, power, central, vacuum, where, install, how to, diy, pressure, suction, cfm, garage, crawlspace, inside, hepa, filter, vac, homechem, chemistry, indoor, iaq, healthy indoors