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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
USA
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!
You know what I don’t like? When people try selling one product across America with pseudoscience or vague claims about benefits in home physics, chemistry, or microbiology. Here’s my rebuke to one specific instance of this kind of over-stated marketing in the world of ‘cooling your house as cheaply as humanly possible’.
We chose Thermory cladding and decking for our forever home. Drift Platinum and Ignite Dragonskin for the siding, and Kodiak decking. Here's a deep dive into the science that created it, the performance we'll get from it, and installation details.
More on this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Have you heard that face masks cannot filter something the size of a virus? Do you know how dumb that is? Would you like to know?
Viruses do not fly around by themselves- they’ll fly as part of a larger particle in the air, which you then inhale. Amazingly, it’s not just when people around you cough or sneeze that these particles are aspirated- they come out of your mouth when you breathe or laugh too.
To hold up our world-class HVAC systems outside the house, I searched and found Hercules Equipment Pads, which are high density foam insulation with a super-rugged coating. They are vibration dampeners, and moisture resistant, and we’ll make a nice gravel bed to put them on soon. Stay tuned to our ‘home performance’ youtube channel to see the HVAC installs.
Also, you can make this material into any shape you like, for example stairs for a Tiny House on wheels- so guess what we made!
Having to special order parts for construction is always a bit of a gamble- I always seem to run out of something, and have too many of something else when all is said and done. This central vacuum system from Nutone is a little tricky since the guidance on these systems is very sketchy at the advanced level (the install manual isn’t all you need for sure, and even generally helpful online resources aren’t answering all my questions), so I’m using what I know about heat flow, pressure and flow, moisture, and contaminants to customize our system with more immediately available materials!
Here are my favorite bits of gear for building a high performance home, including my entire brand new Malco sheet metal ductwork toolkit.
For our family's performance-tuned home, I’m giving you a deep-dive into the beginning stage of the heating/cooling and ventilation ducting throughout the house. See assembly, fastening, sealing with mastic (the good stuff, not the cheap stuff) for duct boot stacks and outdoor vent hood terminations.
For more on this house, check out: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
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Our family-designed and -built forever home has some unique arrangements and ventilation flows. Here's a how-to on using a Fantech SER150 ERV in conjunction with a separately-ducted C3000 HEPA filtration system to achieve a wide range of control over a mixed use space.
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Check out these and other advanced ventilation devices at: http://fantech.net
More on this build at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
What have we learned designing and building our own forever home? Well, kind of a lot. But we tried to keep it short, so here’s a 40-minute long tour through our brains while we’re still under construction.
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Hawaii might seem like a perfect place to live at first glance, and a terrible place to set up a home performance consulting company. But Blake Reid has found lots of opportunity built into the vacation destination's natural geography and climate that make home building and maintenance a real challenge.
Check out Blake's excellent blog at: https://terrawatthome.com/blog
Watch this entire series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsc2-5fAgMq4I_Bjpvmb1Z39Y0uEMGEC9
Join the Building Performance Association: http://building-performance.org
Check out the Building Performance Journal: http://homeenergy.org
Watch the first-ever TV series about the science of homes: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv
Plumbing is not boring- it’s terrifying. Hear what the drain line install was like, and see the elegant PEX plumbing layout I’ll be installing myself. Interesting bits include water purification elements from Elite Water Systems of Texas, and 5 point-of-use water heaters from Chronomite.
More on this build at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
'Home Diagnosis' co-creator and building science trainer Corbett Lunsford has told many students that supply-only ventilation is dangerous for homes in cold climates- but is that scientifically proven? Watch performance testing that will demonstrate exactly what happens (or doesn't happen) when pressurizing a house with supply ventilation from outdoors.
DOWNLOAD Aprilaire’s excellent 2-page ventilation guide at right ———>
See a full installation of the three simplest and most inexpensive ventilation strategies at: https://youtu.be/bfd69xRbQxM
Subscribe to Healthy Indoors Magazine for free at: http://HealthyIndoors.com
Learn more about simple, affordable ventilation strategies at: http://Aprilaire.com
Check out the book on testing homes: http://BuildingPerformanceWorkshop.com/homeperformancediagnosticsbook
See more about this 1960's home's retrofit process at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsc2-5fAgMq5lgu0U_wVocxzUPoSq_JKM
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