Deck Bracket Solution for Exterior Insulated Homes

After consulting with Matt Risinger about deck connection options for homes with exterior insulation, I came across this brilliant solution! Here's a sneak peek.

Cleaning Ductless Mini-Splits

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.

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Advice on Foundation Insulation Cladding?

After carefully exploring the options online, I believe no one in the high performance building world has published a truly durable and beautiful solution for cladding exterior insulation on a foundation wall. Here's my particular conundrum, and my concept for a product that would solve the issue. Any heroes out there who can point me in the right direction?

Alpen Window Factory Visit

Sneak peek of ‘Home Diagnosis’ Season 2 from this high performance window factory in Colorado.

ThermalBuck'd Window Preview

Quick peek into a great way to marry high performance windows with exterior insulation.

How to Clean a Composting Toilet

'Home Diagnosis' co-hosts Corbett and Grace have gotten hundreds of questions about the bathroom in their tiny house on wheels, and 'how it all works'. This. This is how it works. Feast your brain on some serious pee and poop management demonstrations. Not for the faint of heart.

Foundation Backfill: Geotextile, Insulation, Waterproofing and Drainage

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

HVAC Filter Secrets

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
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Foundation Wall Airsealing, Insulation, Waterproofing

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.

Exterior Insulation and Deck Details with Matt Risinger

Corbett's stuck on how to both structurally support the decks on his build and ALSO to allow for exterior insulation behind the ledger. He turns to Build Show expert builder Matt Risinger on how to support, dry, and insulate this connection point.

Specialized Contractor Clothing

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.

Home Builder Framing and Insulation Mistakes

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.