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Atlanta, GA

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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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Heroes of HOMEChem: Delphine Farmer, Atmospheric Chemist

Corbett Lunsford

Meet Dr. Delphine Farmer, Co-Principal Investigator for HOMEChem, and the team's ToolMaker. More at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/homechem

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categories From the Field, Ecologic, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Videos
tags homechem, #homechem, home chemistry, chemicals, particles, control, toxic, air, fresh air, ventilation, asthma, delphine, farmer, csu, fort collins, co, ozone, oxidants, voc, svoc

Understand HOMEChem in 30 Seconds or Less

Corbett Lunsford

From the video team that created Home Diagnosis comes the documenting of HOMEChem (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's historic indoor chemistry campaign at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/homechem

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categories From the Field, Ecologic, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Testing Tools, Videos
tags #homechem, HOMEChem, home, chemistry, chemicals, air quality, control, toxic, compounds, vocs, svoc, v.o.c., particles, pm, pm 2.5, pm 10, cooking, cleaning, ventilation, delphine farmer, richard corsi, lea hildebrandt, atila novoselac, marina vance, nina vance, sloan foundation, chemistry of indoor environment

Teaser for Home Diagnosis Season 1 (eps 3-6)

Corbett Lunsford

See bits of four episodes from Home Diagnosis Season 1! More at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

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categories Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Videos, Tiny Houses
tags building science, tiny house, #tinylab, home performance, building performance, tv show, television, program, series, episode, #homediagnosistv, proof is possible, tour, road show, home improvement, science, blower door, infrared, camera, thermal, airflow, pressure, hvac, testing, diagnostics

Q&A: Home Performance for Tiny Houses

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett does a live Q&A with students of his 'Home Performance for Tiny Spaces' course. More at: https://buildingperformanceworkshop.com/tinyspaces/

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categories Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags tiny house, home performance, tuned, tuning, tune-up, dynamics, air quality, moisture, durability, control, comfort, temperature, humidity, drafts, airtight, ventilation, fresh air, system, building performance, qa, q&a, #tinylab

HOMEChem Interview with Arlene Blum

Corbett Lunsford

Arlene Blum is a famous mountain climber AND biophysical chemist, and it turns out they're basically the same job. At the Green Science Policy Institute in Berkeley, CA, she sat down with Corbett and Grace to talk about Six Classes of harmful chemicals, how to recognize when you're being duped by lazy industrial processes and marketing magic, and what to do to protect your kids from fluorinated products, antimicrobials, flame retardants, bisphenols, phthalates, and certain solvents and metals.

More at: http://SixClasses.org

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categories Ecologic, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Videos
tags six classes, 6 classes, chemicals, toxic, unnecessary, harmful, problematic, arlene blum, blume, gspi, green science policy institute, green chemicals, flame retardants, phthalates, bisphenol, highly fluorinated, antimicrobial, solvent, metal, lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, berkeley

Meet HOMEChem's Test House

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett gets Atila Novoselac to share what the Test House is all about at the University of Texas at Austin. Delphine Farmer and Marina Vance show off the trailers surrounding it, and describe the instruments that'll be running 24/7 measuring the indoor chemistry of the Test House's air. https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/homechem

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Testing Tools, Videos
tags homechem, #homechem, environmental chemistry, indoor chemistry, sloan foundation, university of texas, test house, utest, atila novoselac, austin, delphine farmer, marina vance, nina vance

Meet HOMEChem

Corbett Lunsford

Meet some of the heroes of HOMEChem (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry) and the University of Texas-Austin's Test House! Subscribe and stay tuned for more about this first-ever groundbreaking experiment that will change how all of us see our homes.

https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/homechem

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categories From the Field, Around the World, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Testing Tools, Videos
tags homechem, #homechem, microbial, environmental, chemistry, indoor, air quality, iaq, particulate, pm 2.5, pm 10, pm 1, texas, colorado, university, proof is possible, home performance, building performance

What Are You Breathing At Home?

Corbett Lunsford

In a hilarious and disgusting way, Joe Medosch illustrates what most of us have been breathing at home. Get a free checkup on your home's air quality, with recommendations for improvement at: http://HaywardScore.com

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categories Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Videos
tags hayward score, iaq, indoor air quality, particulate, pm, 2.5, air cleaner, diagnostics, experts, inhale, respiratory, problems, house, sice, sick, syndrome

Combustion Testing the #TinyLab

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett checks the flue gas temperature, contaminant makeup, and efficiency of the tankless water heater in the #TinyLab with a new Wohler A450. Learn more and order this tool at: https://www.trutechtools.com/WohlerA450

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categories Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags wohler a450, combustion testing, bpi, resnet, water heater, tankless, demand, eccotemp, flue gas, diagnostics, hvac, induced draft, tiny house, #tinylab, tiny lab, woehler, a 450, review, wireless

How to Teach Home Performance to Home Owners

Corbett Lunsford

See how Corbett teaches home performance to the uninitiated after having given this presentation 214 times across the U.S. on the Proof Is Possible Tour. Special thanks to the tool companies and all other sponsors of the upcoming TV series 'Home Diagnosis' who have invested in making home performance a mainstream topic:

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categories Homeowner education, Testing Tools, Videos
tags home performance, crash course, workshop, building performance, testing, diagnostics, presentation, free, class, homeowner, education, teacher, trainer, speaker, keynote, blower door, infrared camera, home inspection, expert, air tightness, ventilation, hvac, insulation, retrotec, flir, cps products, easyhood, abm-200, dm-32, t660, flir one, emf testing, trutech tools

Tour the Off Grid Homestead with Chris Laumer-Giddens

Corbett Lunsford

Last week I made my first site visit to the mountains of North Carolina to start performance testing the #OffGridHomestead. This is an uber-homebuild with LG Squared Architects (now also LG Cubed Builders) and Chris Laumer-Giddens has a lot to show us, even at this rough in stage, with saws running and tractors rumbling around.

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categories Architecture, Around the World, Ecologic, From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Videos
tags off grid, homestead, north carolina, passivhaus, passive house, beyond, high performance home, home performance, building, construction, green, sustainable, solar, spring water, cistern, airtight, blower door, master builder, architecture, design-build

2 Years Later: is #TinyLab Still the Highest Performance Tiny House on Wheels?

Corbett Lunsford

Grace and Corbett built the world's highest performance tiny house on wheels in 2016. It was perfect. Then they toured it 13,000 miles across America and let 7,000 people come inside to feel, hear, and smell what perfectly tuned home performance is like.

What's the house performing like now, after all that torture? And under 2 inches of snow in Atlanta, Georgia? See for yourself in this 20-minute tour, complete with testing, demonstrations, and metrics that show Proof Is Possible, even for people who have never built a house before. The #TinyLab is still the undisputed most scientifically superior home performance demonstration in the world, and we sincerely hope others start challenging our work!

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categories Architecture, Ecologic, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Testing Tools, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags tiny house on wheels, thow, tinylab, tiny lab, proof is possible tour, tiny home, high performance, home performance tour, building performance, blower door, airtight, energy efficient, insulated, cold weather, snow, winter, heating, heater, heat pump, atlanta, georgia, diagnostics, testing, consultant