Complete Home Performance Testing Suite: Blower Door, Infrared Thermal Cam, HVAC, Pressure Imbalance
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- From ‘Home Diagnosis’ Season 2 ep13:
See what comprehensive home performance testing looks like, as we prove the forever home we built does what we designed it to do.
Learn to do blower door testing in our 1-Day Training (with Certification as a DET Verifier): buildingperfor...
Test instruments used, all available thru TruTechTools.com:
Retrotec 5000 blower door and DM-32 pressure gauge
Retrotec Flow Box
Hikmicro M30 infrared thermal camera
TEC DG-8 pressure gauge
TEC TruFlow Grid
HOBO MX1101 temp/humidity datalogger
Testo 400 large vane anemometer
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This is truly amazing. If i would have searched for a diy blower door test 2 weeks ago as i had planned, i wojld not have ran into this. Great that i was delayed and was blessed with your video instead! Amazing!
Excellent, Todd! Welcome to our cult!
It would be interesting to know your electricity consumption for all motors you have running in your home.
I love all of this but no one does these types of tests anywhere close to where I live.
I have cold floors so I decided to insulate where a lot had fallen down. I put up New while we were doing this. I was putting down plastic to have something nice to crawl on. I ended up buying some nice plastic and covering the whole floor and then I went up the walls and totally encapsulated my crawlspace and put a dehumidifier down there, now when I look at my dehumidifier app, it tells me the temperature is the same as in the house is this because of the encapsulation rendering the insulation under the floors, mute or perhaps leaky ductwork either way my house is nicer, but I can’t help but feel it was a total waste of time insulating under the floor and I should have insulated the walls in the crawlspace
Yes, if you encapsulate a crawl space, and especially if you have ducts down there as it sounds like you do, you want to insulate around the crawlspace, not the first floor floor. You are running a dehumidifier in the crawlspace? That puts out heat.
@@spruce_goose5169 now I'm doing the Attic can I put plastic down to air seal
I wouldn’t- water vapor has a way of becoming an enemy if it’s trapped
@Phxtonash1 I don't really have enough info to answer. But generally plastic is not used as a way to establish an air barrier. As home performance says, it can be risky to use plastic unless you understand perfectly well your situation. Lots of variables matter, including climate, air movement, perm rating of other materials, and importantly the location of plastic.
Long story short, in a typical unvented attic, caulk and spray foam used on top plates and other penetrations (can lights?) would be more common and probably safer. It requires you to move the existing insulation out of the way.
@@spruce_goose5169 thank you very much you I’ve been researching this for couple weeks with no answer. The house is from the 1950s. It has a vented attic with some batt insulation and then cellulose loose, filled sprayed on top. Lots of leaking air lots. I planned on taking insulation out and filling the top of the walls and any leaking areas with spray foam or caulking. and also replacing the 2 Can lights with ones I can insulate and adding several more I purchased a 12 pack. It just seem like it would be faster and more efficient to use the plastic but I will refrain from that . Thanks again.
Thirteen filters, and they all need to be replaced at least once annually? How many different sizes do you need to keep in stock?
Only a few different kinds, but need to check them all every 2 months.