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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
USA

773.398.5288

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!

Filtering by Category: Homeowner education

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

Home Ventilation for the 21st Century

Corbett Lunsford

There's a lot of mythology and misinformation about how to ventilate homes, and here Corbett shows, with the assistance of Phil Rivas from Fantech, how a perfect ventilation system gets built with 5 classes of HVI-certified equipment.

More on these products at: http://Fantech.net

More on HVI (Home Ventilating Institute): http://HVI.org

More on this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

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categories Architecture, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Videos
tags hvi, certified, ventilation, erv, hrv, exhaust, fresh air, outdoor air, indoor chemistry, homechem, fantech, muas, hood, kitchen, bath, silencer, damper, inline, radon, fan, liner, phil rivas, systemair, high performance, home performance, tour, review

Cleaning Ductless Mini-Splits

Corbett Lunsford

Home Diagnosis co-host Corbett Lunsford found out that his HVAC maintenance schedule was not adequate. In the highest performance tiny house on wheels in the world, the air quality goes downhill fast if you don't service the equipment. This is not a bash on mini-splits, it's a bash on how busy our lives get, and how many of us forget to maintain the machines that make our lives comfortable.

More on the TinyLab at: http://ProofisPossible.com

Subscribe to Healthy Indoors Magazine at: https://HealthyIndoors.com

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categories Homeowner education, Videos
tags maintenance, ductless, mini, minisplit, unit, hvac, tech, cleaning, mold, mildew, smell, odor, dank, mitsubishi, fh, take apart, access, disassemble

HVAC Filter Secrets

Corbett Lunsford

Home Diagnosis co-host Corbett breaks down some secret foundations for how filters work and why you should be thinking about WAY more than the fiberglass screen in your furnace. Read Healthy Indoors Magazine at: http://HealthyIndoors.com
Watch Home Diagnosis at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv

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categories Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags filtration, surface, chemistry, air, environmental, homechem, filters, microbes, microbiology, house, home, performance, building science, building scientist

Home Builder Framing and Insulation Mistakes

Corbett Lunsford

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.

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categories Architecture, From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Videos
tags builder, house, home, fail, mistake, structural, framing, insulating, insulate, insulated, staging, problem, conundrum, challenges, rockwool, roxul

Ductless vs. Ducted HVAC + Duct Cleaning

Corbett Lunsford

Have you ever wondered whether you should replace a home's HVAC system, or have the ducts cleaned? Spend a Healthy Indoors Minute exploring the complexity of invisible dynamics influencing any of these choices. Ductless minisplit heat pump compared with ducted split system heat pump, or furnace and A/C. Cleaning ductwork vs. cleaning house. No stone unturned in these 4 minutes of discussion. More at: http://HealthyIndoors.com

See the show at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

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categories Dear Corbett, Architecture, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags minisplit, ductless, heat pumps, comparison, better, than, ductwork, ducted, split system, dust, cleaning, cleaned, how to, mitsubishi, fujitsu, daikin, carrier, air quality, pollution, filter

100-Year Roof: Mento 3000

Corbett Lunsford

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

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categories Architecture, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Videos, From the Field
tags 475, high performance, building, solitex, mento, 3000, underlayment, shroud, black, membrane, wrb, vana, tescon, tape, system, pro clima, proclima, atlanta, georgia, ga, forcefield, gp, georgia-pacific, sheathing, osb, install

Tiny House Reality: Ants, Cats, and Kids

Corbett Lunsford

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.

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categories From the Field, Ecologic, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags tiny house, life, lifestyle, kids, family, cats, pets, smell, sticky, ants, bugs, pests, pesticide, borax, spray, kill, prevent, nest, traps, cedar oil, tiny home, wheels, tinylab

Tree Testing with a Resistograph: Home Performance Outdoors

Corbett Lunsford

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!

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categories From the Field, Ecologic, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Testing Tools, Videos, Tiny Houses
tags tree, testing, rot, decay, danger, risk, analysis, assessment, resistograph, arborist, water oak, huge, trees, test, diagnostic, diagnosis, home, house, crush, fall, drill, discover, investigate, investigation

High Performance Home Building Materials

Corbett Lunsford

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

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Videos
tags materials, construction, windows, buck, thermal buck, brink, brinc, provia, alpen, window, building science, airtight, high performance, home build, building, rockwool, roxul, exterior, insulation, airsealing, tape, forcefield, wrb