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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
USA
773.398.5288
corbett@buildingperformanceworkshop.com
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.
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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On his family's 3:12 pitch roof, Corbett Lunsford installs a ventilation gap before the 24 gauge standing seam galvanized roof goes up.
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More about this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Corbett Lunsford demonstrates how to add 2-ft. eaves to a high performance home enclosure using 475 Building Supply tapes and membranes and ForceField WRB. Check out the sealing products used at: http://FourSevenFive.com
More on this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
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'HOME DIAGNOSIS' hosts Grace and Corbett Lunsford are first-time home builders, but they're willing to push the limits where other builders would run away screaming. Check this out, it's pretty wild- never been seen before onscreen, and soon to be seen on TV in Season 2!
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More about this unique build: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Corbett and Grace and their family have built a house that has better control over air leakage than 99.999% of any house ever built, anywhere in the universe. Here's how they found out.
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Quick peek into a great way to marry high performance windows with exterior insulation.
Watch the Lunsford family finally backfill their conditioned crawlspace foundation, describing and demonstrating what a high performance foundation wall system can do. More on this project at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
After 9 months of exposure, the footing of the crawlspace foundation is being buried- here are the answers to all your questions. See the finishing of the Form-a-Drain, sealing of the ForceField-concrete junction, permanent fastening of the Platon, and gluing of the 3" Rockwool ComfortBoard 80.
Thanks to Atlas 46 for liking our work and sending us Concord pants and hats to outfit my entire crew (which is my parents)! Made in the USA, lots of places to put important stuff, and nice people too.
Corbett has made a few mistakes on one wall of this high performance house- he points out how and why this staging mistake happens in home builds all the time, and an inconvenient but effective way to fix it and ensure the performance of the envelope.
Corbett delves into water quality control for the first time with Erik Bernal of Elite Water Systems, who gives a sneak peek into the multiple processes the Lunsfords will be using on this high performance home build to ensure water quality.
See what we've been up to on the ground, so to speak. 2” Rockwool ComfortBoard 80 getting glued to Platon dimpleboard drainage mat, with sealed top edge to ForceField sheathing WRB.
See 475's high performance Pro Clima roof membrane get installed on this 3:12 pitched roof, before the rain screen , exterior insulation, and eaves get put on. More on this project at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Get samples of these awesome building materials at: http://FourSevenFive.com