March 21, 2022
Building Diagnostic Tool Center
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After the blower door is set up and running, look for the leaks. You can use your hand to detect some leaks, but smoke puffers make other leaks easier to "see"
This episode of …
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How a blower door works, how to set it up, how to use it to find air leaks in a home's envelope, and how to break down the numbers.
As blower door tests creep into local building codes, it pays to…
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For the price of a drywall repair, you can look inside walls with a thermal camera at insulation and air leaks
IR cameras can help improve your understanding of how air leaks work. Leaks are …
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The main difference is in the hand-held digital manometer unit
There are two main blower door brands in the home performance contractor space: The…
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Built tight and verify. And then ventilate.
A blower door is a simple device: basically a fan in a shroud that fits tightly into a door. The fan is calibrated so that to measure exactly how…
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Insulating the shell after blower door and IR camera-assisted air sealing
In the last episode of the Model Remodel Show, we spent a fair bit of time sitting on the roof while Ben spent a fair…