Blower Door Test
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Getting the Most Out of Blower Door Test Results
Understanding blower door calculations beyond air exchanges per hour at 50 Pascals can yield useful information for achieving efficiency goals
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Zonal Pressure Diagnostics, Part I
A look at how this diagnostic tool is being misused to estimate air leakage
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Using a Blower-Door Test and Interpreting the Results
An introduction to the technology and calculations for measuring a home’s energy performance
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Wingnut Blower-Door Testing
The amount of air leakage allowed by code is an informational eye-opener
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Using a Blower Door for Zonal-Pressure Testing
By now, most of us working in the green-building industry know what a blower door is. It’s a tool to measure the air tightness of a house. I’ve owned my…
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Urban Rustic: The Blower Door Test
The painstaking efforts of building an airtight house pay off
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Flatrock Passive: Blower Door Test Comes up Roses
A methodical attention to detail helps the house meet the airtightness standard
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World’s Tightest House Is On the Market
The Dillingham, Alaska, home goes up for sale as its owners prepare for a move
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62 Things We Should Ban to Improve Home Building
Let’s clean this mess up once and for all
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The Energy Conservatory’s New Blower Door Kit
TEC did its homework: its new blower door package is a truly engineered and integrated equipment system