Elegant HVAC Duct Design: the Rooms are Ducts, Too

Ductwork is more than just supplies and returns- the entire home enclosure is actually part of the ductwork. Here’s a quick demonstration of how to use room arrangements to direct airflow. From Season 2 episode 9 of 'Home Diagnosis' on PBS.

Watch all the episodes for free right now: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

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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

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How the Best HVAC Equipment Gets Made: Fast Tour of Mitsubishi Cooling & Heating Headquarters

I've always wanted to go, and am finally learning some new tips and tricks that Mitsubishi puts into their high performance equipment to be a little more ballsy than other manufacturers. See a slice of the innovations in ducted heat pumps, ductless minisplits, testing at extreme environmental conditions, an 11-acre warehouse, a tech support division staffed by HVAC contractors with working demo units and controls, and more. Thanks also to Ryan Burrell who led the technical discussion (and who helped me select the exact Mitsubishi heat pumps that went into our new home).

Thanks to Matt Hoots (https://youtube.com/c/SawhorseDesignBuild) for putting together this trip to Mitsubishi's HQ in Atlanta GA.

Learn more about any of this stuff at: https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/

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

Watch the first-ever TV series on home performance testing: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

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DATALOGGERS 101: Tracking Home Performance by the Second with HOBO's Paul Gannett

These days almost anything invisible can be tracked in homes, so that we can pinpoint the cause of problems, and then solve them once and for all. One of my longtime favorite tools is the HOBO datalogger (doesn't stand for anything FYI, the inventor just really liked trains).

These inexpensive modules can test anything you want, and store a month or more of data using only a couple AAA batteries. In this 91st episode of the Building Performance Podcast, hear from HOBO engineer Paul Gannett about the tips, tricks, and inner workings of these critical instruments for tracking temperature, humidity, CO2, light, electrical load, and much more.

Learn more about HOBO dataloggers: https://www.onsetcomp.com/

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/

Join us and help support the first-ever TV series about the science of homes: https://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosisTV

How Our Family of 5 is Making Season 3 of 'Home Diagnosis' TV

We need your help- with feedback, support, and video content from home disasters! For those who'd like to chip in as little as $5/month, here's where you can join our team: https://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosisTV

Watch the upcoming season and meet the sponsors who are stepping up to help keep this first-ever series about the science of homes going: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/season-3

We are deep into filming Season 3 of Home Diagnosis, and we wanted to let you know where we're at- we've got a bunch of videos in the pipeline. You might not know, but Corbett edits them himself and so we've got a list of more than a dozen that we're gonna have coming your way.

But we wanted to say a special shout out to our Patreon supporters for being involved, and helping us have a team while we're like so deep into the edit.

The truth is making a TV show is not easy. Especially because funding isn't easy.

And even though we have some companies that really love us, just this coming year there's not funding in their budget for the TV show. So the Patreon members are a huge help, both mentally and financially. And we hang out with them every two weeks, so if you want to get more behind the scenes info on what we just did going through the South Central US, and what we're about to do that Grace is putting the finishing touches on in the Pacific Northwest with our family (we're taking all three of our kids), or going to New York, Toronto, the Carolinas, Miami, Nebraska (the middle of Nebraska- wait till you see what's out there, it's crazy)… anyhow there's a lot that's coming up, and there's a lot of costs that are coming up. So again, thank you so much for being on board with us.

Enjoy these little behind-the-scenes from our Texas trip, and if you want in more deeply, please join us at patreon.com/homediagnosistv.

Season 3 is called ‘Accidents Happen’ and we're going to go back and forth between natural disasters and man-made building science disasters- and sometimes even critters.

Last thing: we have put this call out to our Patreon members, as far as individual homes and the stories that get woven into Season 3, but if you are a home performance professional- and that includes pest control by the way- we're looking for more video content that nobody has ever seen before.

So if you have videos of crazy crawl spaces or attics, or animal problems, or mold, or fill in the blank, please do get in touch with us, and we will credit you and include the footage on Home Diagnosis Season 3 if it can be woven into the story.

So thanks for being on the adventure in general with us on this channel and at HomeDiagnosis.tv- make sure that you comment, if you have things to add or questions to ask, like and subscribe, and tune in next time.

Best of 2022 Nat'l Home Performance Conference

We were deep into this year's National Home Performance Conference in Nashville, and in addition to giving classes on ventilation, advanced testing, and a screening of 'Home Diagnosis', we checked out what's cool and new on the trade show floor. Here are our favorites:

Broan Ventilation Components: https://Broan.com

Rockwool Insulation: https://rockwool.com

AirCycler Ventilation Controls and Sensors: https://aircycler.com

Retrotec Instruments: https://retrotec.com

TruTech Tools: https://trutechtools.com

TEC Instruments: https://energyconservatory.com

Check out 'Home Diagnosis' and the other incredible companies who are investing in educating the public on building science: https://homediagnosis.tv/season-3

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

Hotel Bathroom Wrecked (by Design)

How Not to Design Ventilation with a Bath Exhaust Fan

At the end of our South Central Tour for Home Diagnosis Season 3, we stayed in a nice new hotel that I just couldn't help but show you. We've stayed in dozens exactly like this, but it's just too many times to refrain from making fun of these bozos anymore.

See how you design and install bath fans like a grown up here: https://youtu.be/YAi9rJ31wqU

See 'Home Diagnosis' episodes at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

How to Plan Ventilation Make Up Air: 2 Awesome Free Tools for Design Calculations

Not sure if you need makeup air in a home? Here are 2 quick and easy (and free) tools I use on basically every consulting job I do. Watch how I determine exactly the right solutions for any home, using depressurization analysis and solving with passive and active make up air systems.

Redcalc: https://www.redcalc.com/red-calc-free/

Broan Make Up Air Specifier: https://www.broan-nutone.com/en-us/home/specifier-tools