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Corbett Lunsford
Corbett shows one of the tricky assemblies of the high performance home build. More at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
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773.398.5288
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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.
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Corbett shows one of the tricky assemblies of the high performance home build. More at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
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.
Home Diagnosis hosts Grace and Corbett Lunsford show the process of testing the gigantic old tree growing over their tiny house and normal sized new house. The question: whether to trust it and let it grow, or cut it down before it crushes important stuff. See how it works, and what the verdict was!
Corbett has received shipment on all the components of the shell of the big house build!
More at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Thanks to:
475 Building Supply: http://FourSevenFive.com
ROCKWOOL INSULATION: http://Rockwool.com
ALPEN WINDOWS: http://ThinkAlpen.com
THERMALBUCK: http://ThermalBuck.com
The I-joists, glulams and other engineered wood that forms the framing of our house is not as great as the marketing makes it out to be.
Grace and Corbett show the latest development on their home build- the wall sheathing, which is also the air tightness layer and weather barrier. It's called ForceField, and here you'll see a demo of why it's such an important component in the system, and how to install it for a higher performance home.
More on ForceField at: http://ForceField.BuildGP.com
More on this build at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Corbett shows off the sometimes glamorous work uniform of a novice builder. He loves his SPF 50 sun shirts, contractor pants (Atlas 46 brand), and Pro Clima sealing tape for holes in boots and gloves.
Home Diagnosis hosts Grace and Corbett Lunsford discuss the simple approach to controlling indoor chemistry, and how exactly they plan to do that in their own family home.
Subscribe to Healthy Indoors Magazine at: http://HealthyIndoors.com
More on this house at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Corbett and Grace are thrilled with their Rockwool insulation, but it came off the truck with a few dents. Let's suck it up and admit this happens every day, on build sites everywhere. More reason to maintain a calm, level head and make sure inspections and testing happen too.
Corbett introduces you to the OSB panels with performance control skins that will be installed on his family's performance-tuned house.
More at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Thanks to GP ForceField and Jeff Key- more at: http://ForceField.BuildGP.com
Corbett shows the (slow) progress on the 1960's performance retrofit with the install and testing of the addition. Featuring ZIP System paneling.
See the other videos in this series here:
https://youtu.be/iciAPohuLNM
https://youtu.be/YDXk8ObHBWU
Corbett's family build is getting a layer of durability all new homes should have: a perfectly installed, class I vapor barrier that ALSO is termite proof. See how Pango Wrap is installed and what it'll do for the home's longevity.
More at: http://PangoWrap.com