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Atlanta, GA
773.398.5288
corbett@buildingperformanceworkshop.com
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.
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!
On his family's 3:12 pitch roof, Corbett Lunsford installs a ventilation gap before the 24 gauge standing seam galvanized roof goes up.
Learn more about the furring strips at: http://Cor-a-Vent.com
More about tapes and membranes at: http://FourSevenFive.com
More about this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Now that Corbett has been doing HVAC load calcs for almost a decade, he's ready to make this very long (and also much too short) video tutorial about the what, why, how, when, and who of heat load calcs for sizing your HVAC equipment.
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
Corbett Lunsford demonstrates how to add 2-ft. eaves to a high performance home enclosure using 475 Building Supply tapes and membranes and ForceField WRB. Check out the sealing products used at: http://FourSevenFive.com
More on this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
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'HOME DIAGNOSIS' hosts Grace and Corbett Lunsford are first-time home builders, but they're willing to push the limits where other builders would run away screaming. Check this out, it's pretty wild- never been seen before onscreen, and soon to be seen on TV in Season 2!
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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
Corbett and Grace and their family have built a house that has better control over air leakage than 99.999% of any house ever built, anywhere in the universe. Here's how they found out.
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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.
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
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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?
Sneak peek of ‘Home Diagnosis’ Season 2 from this high performance window factory in Colorado.
Quick peek into a great way to marry high performance windows with exterior insulation.