Best Place to Put a Bath Exhaust Fan

From 'Home Diagnosis' Season 2 Episode 9- most bathrooms are not designed for performance, let's admit it. If your mirror gets fogged up, if it takes 30 minutes to exhaust all the steam, if your ceiling drips or your walls have streaks on them, you can do better. Most of this, insanely, has to do with WHERE the bath exhaust fan is located. Here's your quick crash course to help you school all the builders, remodelers, and mechanical engineers in the world.

See the whole episode at: https://homediagnosis.tv/episode-209-opening-the-ice-box-cooling-and-drying

3 Acre Permaculture Design: Species List, Planting Map, Timeline, and Budget

https://youtu.be/8NyKSkx7yPA

Now that Grace's journey learning the science of landscaping in the mastermind permaculture course Regenerative Backyard Blueprint (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IynM_7gPBfg), and the extensive site visit and measurement process by Shades of Green (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9YfuWwjko), the final grand plan is ready! Review the species, planting arrangement, timeline and budget ideas for our 3 acre property in Atlanta, GA with Rebecca Baxter of Shades of Green Permaculture.

Check out Shades of Green's mastermind course and their consulting: https://shadesofgreenpermaculture.com/

Learn more about this homestead: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsc2-5fAgMq4YgAoFaG-F6xvGT1MKwt-u

Learn more about our TinyLab: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsc2-5fAgMq51-6Gwm3m7HXjRhgt9X7RK

#shadesofgreenpermaculture #permaculture #permacultureatlanta #growdontmow #pollinators #pollinator #pollinatorgarden #pollinatorfriendly #pollinatorhabitat #pollinatorparade #pollinatorswelcome #pollinatorsandflowers #organicgardening #organicgarden #organicgardener #organicgardeningmethods #organicgardens

How to Use Infrared Cameras (in Under 3 Minutes): Tutorial from 'Home Diagnosis' TV season 2

OBVIOUSLY there's more to it than this, but if you're picking up an IR thermal camera or hiring someone to do it for you to test your home, you need to understand these basics.

We get all our tools (and hope you do too) from the amazing folks at: https://www.trutechtools.com/thermal-imager.html

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New Ways to Purify Tap Water in Homes: Latest Water Softener, Catalytic Carbon Filter, Tankless RO

While on tour making 'Home Diagnosis' Season 3, Grace and Corbett Lunsford visited the water purification experts led by Erik Bernal at Elite Water Systems to check out the new systems they've developed. See the innovations built into their Platinum 1.5 water softener and catalytic carbon filter (which now captures chloramine and can be regenerated), the tankless reverse osmosis system with built in testing of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), and the Titanium whole home filter that delivers up to 10 gallons per minute.

Thanks to Kathy Cabello and Mike Marquez for answering all these questions. See their installation at the Lunsford's forever home: https://youtu.be/PgCg4c5HObc

Learn more about the customizations possible for water purification: https://www.elitewatersystems.com/

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Disasters & Resilience with Matt Risinger: Building Readiness into Homes

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On our tour shooting 'Home Diagnosis' Season 3, we visited Matt Risinger's Build Show Studio in Austin TX to talk about a recent disaster domino effect, and how he builds resilience into the homes his team builds.

Subscribe to Matt's channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFCTrfb1JUJjs3Im8OZDtBw

Check out the Build Show at: http://TheBuildShow.com

Texas freeze footage courtesy of 'Boots and Bonnets with Chris & Christy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikg0e87-ipk

ISS footage courtesy of NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/content/ultra-high-definition-video-gallery

6 Case Studies for Crafting Modular Ventilation Systems: Radon, Filtration, ERV, Make Up Air, & Dehumidifiers

Not only do we usually misunderstand the causes of problems in our homes, we often miss the mark in our attempts to fix them. #Ventilation is not a piece of cake, but it’s certainly not brain surgery.

Learn the hows and whys behind six specific, unique situations where air quality was an issue for families. Thanks to @aprilaireco for teaming up with us on this!

Watch the first-ever TV series about the science of homes at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

Consult or Train with Corbett at: http://BuildingPerformanceWorkshop.com

Check out Aprilaire modular ventilation components at: http://Aprilaire.com

How Perfect Can a New Home's Chemistry Get? Healthy Indoors Minute

Even with their newly-finished home still obviously off-gassing, and with a massive amount of wood finishes and structural materials certainly emitting formaldehyde, this high performance forever home is testing like a decades-old, well-established house as told by chemist Alice Delia of Prism Analytical. Through the selection of low-emitting materials where possible AND 24/7 ventilation of the spaces, the Lunsfords have achieved their goal of a sanctuary with limited chemistry.

Learn a ton more at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead

Subscribe to Healthy Indoors Magazine and join the community: http://HealthyIndoors.com

Test your own home: http://pati-air.com

Air On Fire: Mindblowing Picture of Your Home's Indoor Chemistry

It's hard to believe in something you can't see, so let us show it to you. Learn the most basic facts about the chemistry of the air around your face, every minute of every day of your life. Thanks to our 18 show sponsor companies and three dozen Patreon supporters for making this show season possible. Help support our work at: http://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosisTV See the show at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv

High Performance Laundry Room: Miele Heat Pump Dryer and High-Tech Washing Machine with Testing

Grace Lunsford teams up with Miele’s US technical trainer Jared Costa to give an in-depth tour of the highest tech in washing machines and clothes dryers.

0:49 Clothes washer WXD 160 WCS: https://www.mieleusa.com/e/w1-front-loading-washing-machine-wxd-160-wcs-lotus-white-11614070-p

6:43 Heat pump dryer TXD160WP: https://www.mieleusa.com/e/t1-heat-pump-tumble-dryer-txd160wp-lotus-white-11619650-p

11:07 Mythbusting heat pump dryers: size, time, and heat

11:42 Testing heat pump room effect

High Performance Kitchen Triangle: Miele Induction, Convection, Dishwasher & Fridge

Grace shows off her badass beautiful kitchen triangle of 20-year appliances, with technical expertise from Miele's awesome training director, Jared Costa.

3:53 Induction Cooktop KM 6370: https://www.mieleusa.com/e/induction-cooktop-km-6370-9775910-p

11:05 Warming Drawer ESW 6114: https://www.mieleusa.com/e/24-inch-handleless-warming-drawer-esw-6114-clean-touch-steel-9682550-p

16:31 Convection Oven H6560: https://www.mieleusa.com/e/24-inch-convection-oven-h-6560-b-am-clean-touch-steel-9769400-p

26:26 Dishwasher G5056: https://www.mieleusa.com/e/fully-integrated-dishwashers-g-5056-scvi-sf-stainless-steel-11695330-p

38:02 Refrigerator KFNF 9955: https://www.mieleusa.com/e/frenchdoor-bottom-mount-units-kfnf-9955-ide-10277970-p

Permaculture Plan: Surveying/Analyzing & Landscape Design for our Forever Home's Dream Garden

Now that our home is built and we're happily living in it, we're ready for the much bigger job of setting up a legacy garden and self-maintaining landscape around it. Permaculture is the design science of tuning the ecology around us, and Brandy Hall and Rebecca Baxter from Shades of Green (https://ShadesOfGreenPermaculture.com) are experts in this. Hear from them how our property might be re-tuned to transform it into a garden that requires minimal maintenance. More on this home and property at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead About Shades of Green Shades of Green is a regenerative landscape design, build and education firm located in Atlanta, GA. For over 10 years, Shades of Green has designed and installed regenerative outdoor spaces for commercial, residential and municipal clients that contribute to protecting biodiversity, growing food, medicine, and pollinator habitat, building soil, and restoring the water cycle. Founded by Managing Director Brandy Hall, Shades of Green is a Woman-Owned, Certified B Corporation and member of the Sustainable Sites Initiative. Find out more and become a part of the Shades of Green community at shadesofgreenpermaculture.com and on Instagram.

Tour of our Kichler LED Lighting System Layers

Our #ForeverHome is not just a marvel of scientific control, it's also stunningly beautiful thanks in large part to our design help from Kichler's Jeff Dross. Get the full tour of all the layers of lighting (ambient, task, and accent) as Grace and Corbett Lunsford go deep on details of designing, wiring, and customizing a high performance home lighting system.

See the 'how to design' video interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdFtY5udLKA

Learn more about this house at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead

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