Before investing in insulation or other home improvements, it’s crucial to assess the energy efficiency of your property through blower door testing and infrared inspection.
These assessments help to identify areas of energy loss, moisture buildup, and indoor air pollution, providing valuable insights into the condition of your property.
By addressing these issues first, you can significantly improve the energy efficiency and overall health of your property, ensuring that your investment in insulation or other home improvements is both effective and long-lasting.
A blower door test reveals the airtightness of a home.
What is a blower door test?
A blower door test determines how much outside air is pulled into your home. This measurement is called the air infiltration rate of a building. It is the only way to determine the air tightness of a home. In short, it reveals where you are leaking energy from your home.
How is a blower test performed?
A blower door test uses a specialized powerful fan, along with other equipment and softtware. The fan is mounted into the frame of an exterior door. All other windows and doors are sealed. Then the furnace is turned off.
As the fan pulls air out of the house, it lowers the air pressure inside. This is called negative pressure. As the higher outside air pressure flows in through all the unsealed cracks and openings. It is measured using a specialized digital infrared camera.
Blower Door And Infiltration Testing
Crawls & Attics has been offering blower door services since 2004. We perform this service for a nominal fee, or often times we will include this service at no extra charge for our customers doing full spray foam house from us (please ask your sales representative if you qualify for a free blower door consultation; if so it will be written in the scope of work section of the Agreement).
The goal of a blower door test is to determine how often inside air is replaced.
The air pressure flowing into the structure is measured in Air Changes Per Hour (ACH). This is the rate of air volume added or removed from a space (such as a house or a room), divided by the volume of the room. The rate is a measure of how many times in that specific space the air is replaced.
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The service has many useful applications
- You’re building a new home and you want proof of the new homes energy characteristics.
- You just bought a new home and have concerns that the home wasn’t built to the standards that you were promised, or expected.
- You’re about to purchase a home and want to know how the house will perform from an energy standpoint (also what improvements should happen first?).
- You’re having all your windows replaced and you want a before and after test done to confirm a quality installation (just because they’re new doesn’t mean you’ll get a top-quality installation).
- You’ve read about ERVs or HRVs and you’re not sure if you’re house really requires one.
- You want to hire someone to seal up your duct work and need a before and after test to quantity the results.
- You want to quantify the exact building pressure your heating appliances will start to operate at dangerous levels (Carbon Monoxide threats).
What Are The Benefits of a Blower Door Test?
When offering a comprehensive, well-rounded home energy audit to our customers, Fire and Ice conducts several standard procedures including a blower door test.
Blower door testing is an important part of any household energy audit and is performed to measure air-leakage rates of your home. It is also used to identify leakage points in the building envelope that if addressed, could result in improved air quality, mould prevention, reduction of condensation and energy savings.
There are many benefits of our blower door testing service. By knowing your home's leakage rate improves the accuracy of heat-load calculations, and ensures properly sized equipment and optimum long-term performance. To address uncomfortable drafts caused by cold air leaking in from the outdoors, let us perform air tightness testing on your home.
How drafty is your home?
If you have rooms with different temperatures give us a call we can help you fix these issues.
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