Home Performance Articles

Blower Door Testing / Diagnostics / Airsealing

• Air Sealing in Low-Rise Buildings Home Energy Magazine
• Air Sealing in Occupied Homes Home Energy Magazine
• Beauty and the Beast Upstairs Home Energy Magazine
• Creating Quality in New Construction: A Practitioner's Perspective Home Energy Magazine
• Infiltration: Just ACH50 Divided by 20? Home Energy Magazine
• Introduction to Blower Doors Home Energy Magazine
• The High Performance House - What Does It Take? Home Energy Magazine
• The History of the Blower Door Home Energy Magazine
• The Use of Blower Door Data Lawrence Berkeley Lab
• User Friendly Pressure Diagnostics Home Energy Magazine
• What's Being Built Out There? Performance Tests on 100 New Houses Home Energy Magazine
• When is a House Too Tight? Home Energy Magazine

Duct Leakage Testing and Repairs

• Bigger is Not Better: Sizing Air Conditioners Properly Home Energy Magazine
• Can Duct Tape Take the Heat? Home Energy Magazine
• Diagnosing Ducts: Finding the Energy Culprits Home Energy Magazine
• Duct Fixing in America Home Energy Magazine
• Duct Improvement in the Northwest, Part 1: New Construction and Retrofit Home Energy Magazine
• Duct Improvement in the Northwest, Part2: Mobile Homes Home Energy Magazine
• Guidelines for Designing and Installing Tight Duct Systems Home Energy Magazine
• Introduction to Residential Duct Systems Lawrence Berkeley Lab
• Managing Large-Scale Duct Programs Home Energy Magazine
• Sizing Air Conditioners: If Bigger is Not Better, What Is? Home Energy Magazine

Indoor Air Quality / Safety Testing / Ventilation

• Black Stains in Houses: Soot, Dust, or Ghosts Home Energy Magazine
• Building Healthy Houses Healthy House Institute
• Combustion Safety Checks: How Not to Kill Your Clients Home Energy Magazine
• Evaluating Ventilation in Multi-Family Buildings Home Energy Magazine
• Fundamentals of Moisture in Houses Home Energy Magazine
• Improving Indoor Air Quality - What Works Healthy House Institute
• Integrated Heating and Ventilation: Double Duty for Ducts Home Energy Magazine
• Mechanical Ventilation for the Home Home Energy Magazine
• Oversized Kitchen Fans - An Exhausting Problem Home Energy Magazine
• Sick Houses: Using Diagnostic Tools to Improve Indoor Air Quality Home Energy Magazine
• Survey of Tightness Limits for Residential Buildings R. J. Karg and Associates