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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!

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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

Keynote on Home Performance and Building Diagnostics

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett Lunsford delivered several keynote addresses in 2016 on building and touring the #TinyLab, home performance testing mastery, and how the construction and home improvement industry is evolving to incorporate proof of performance. You can watch this recording, delivered at the 2016 InfraMation conference in Las Vegas.

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categories Performance Pros, Videos, Tiny Houses
tags keynote, building performance, tour, #tinylab, tiny lab, tiny house, roadshow, presentation, workshop, home performance expert, home performance consultant, guru, diagnostics, performance testing

#TinyLab Tour Ends: Lessons Learned

Corbett Lunsford

Grace and Corbett Lunsford are happy to not be moving every week, like they did on the Proof Is Possible Tour! Hear some of the ups and downs, and what they learned on this 13,000 mile, 26-state tour of the U.S. promoting measured home performance.

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categories Tiny Houses, Videos
tags proof is possible tour, #tinylab, tiny house on wheels, roadshow, home performance tour, training, advanced, building, construction, design

Corbett's Conversation with Stephen Rardon, HVAC Guru

Grace McPhillips

Stephen Rardon, HVAC expert extraordinaire, came to the #TinyLab to talk about home performance, HVAC testing, and being a world-class consultant to homeowner and builder clients alike!

If you haven't already, CHECK OUT STEPHEN'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL- his is twice the size and following of ours!

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categories Around the World, Videos, Performance Pros, Homeowner education, Dear Corbett, Tiny Houses
tags crash course, building performance, proof is possible tour, #tinylab, roadshow, home performance, stephen rardon, homeowner education, tiny house, tour, rardon hvac, builder education, home improvement consultant

How to Service, Disassemble, and Clean a Mitsubishi MSZ-FH06NA Ductless Minisplit

Corbett Lunsford

See a demonstration of taking apart and cleaning the Mitsubishi Electric FH-series ductless minisplit heat pump.  Thanks to Garrett Beneker of Lincoln Air in Phoenix, AZ for sharing his expertise, and to Jim Clark of Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating for introducing us!

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags mitsubishi, fh06na, fh09na, fh12na, fh15na, fh18na, fh21na, fh24na, msz, clean, how to, take apart, blower wheel, fan, air handler, evaporator coil, cleaning, maintenance, mildew, mold, smell, odor, ductless, mini, split, 33 seer

#TinyLab Teaches the Hamptons Home Performance

Corbett Lunsford

PSEG Long Island brought the Proof Is Possible Tour's #TinyLab and Green Jobs Training Center's Building Science Training Lab to East Hampton and Montauk, and here's what happened! Video produced by Geir Magnusson at Nice Studios- thanks also to Bill Sullivan, the man who made the whole thing happen!

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categories Around the World, Homeowner education, Real Estate, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags energy efficiency, pseg, workshop, event, education, green building, tiny house, tiny lab, new york, hampton, montauk, bill sullivan, green jobs training center, geir magnusson, nice studios, michael dunseith, dee dunseith

#TinyLab in Death Valley: Proven Performance

Corbett Lunsford

See what the hottest place on Earth (Death Valley, with the world record 134ºF temperature) does to the world's highest performance tiny house on wheels. See proof that our airtightness, insulation, cooling, and ventilation works even where it's not designed to go.

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categories Around the World, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags tiny house, tiny house on wheels, tiny house performance, home performance, comfort, desert, a/c, humidification, dehumidification, death valley, hot, tiny lab, building performance, insulation, airtight, construction, green, building

#TinyLab Airsealing Tape Technique Demonstration

Corbett Lunsford

If you want airtightness (and you DO), you want to use airsealing tape. Corbett demonstrates Tescon Vana tape application, thanks to 475 High Performance Building Supply for importing this stuff from Europe!

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categories From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags proclima, airsealing, tape, tescon, vana, profil, intello, demo, how to, apply, airtightness, tiny lab, tiny house, interior, membrane, layer, 475 building supply, construction, building

Air Sealing Tape: Proof of 100 Year Durability

Corbett Lunsford

Building performance expert Corbett Lunsford respects proof of performance, and ProClima's airsealing tape has now been proven to him. See Tescon Profil tape that was applied to the subfloor of the #TinyLab as it holds up to 5 months of pure abuse during the construction process.

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categories Architecture, From the Field, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Tiny Houses, Videos
tags airtight, construction, green building, air seal, tape, caulk, foam, comparison, technique, weather, barrier, water, tescon, vana, profil, proclima, 475 building supply, passivhaus, passive house

Do Tankless Water Heating Systems Perform Better?

Corbett Lunsford

Watch home performance diagnostics guru Corbett Lunsford test the performance of demand tankless water heaters, in the #TinyLab and in a big house.  You may be surprised to see that it doesn't work exactly as advertised.

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categories From the Field, Ecologic, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Testing Tools, Videos, Tiny Houses
tags construction, building, green, energy efficient, water heater, hot water, tankless, demand, instantaneous, instant, tiny house, #tinylab, gpm, demonstration, testing, diagnostics, temperature, control