Anyone thinking of buying a house or building one should consider having a blower door test performed. It will help determine the cost of future energy bills. The blower door test is a diagnostic tool ...

Energy codes are emerging or being updated nationwide. As air leakage testing becomes a requirement, some testers wonder what value it adds over informed visual inspections. Arguments about equipment ...

GRABEN, Germany — Ian Jack, of Blower-Door-XXL (Lemgo, Germany), was recently recognized by Guinness World Records for executing the world’s largest blower door test. Jack achieved the record using 15 ...

It helps you determine what it will cost to heat, and what you should do to seal it up. When Greening Homes did the blower door test on my 100-year-old house before we renovated it, they couldn't even ...

Did you know that the average home has enough air leakage to add up to a two-foot-square hole 1? That’s the equivalent to leaving a medium-sized window open 24 hours a day 1. Most homeowners would ...

“There are contractors doing the blower door test already -- we’ve had our blower door for 26 years,” said Paul Tschida, Residential Energy Program specialist for the Montana Department of ...

You spend precious pennies on your power bill every month. You may not realize pennies are wasted when your home isn't properly sealed. So how do you know if your home is airtight? One way is to give ...

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With winter upon us, a favorite gadget of CNET's Martin LaMonica is a blower door, a green building tool for measuring air flow and finding leaks. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Weatherization, energy audits, airtight homes — none of these things inspire shouts of glee … until you add James Brown. Which, mercifully, this random video does. Scraped from the corners of the ...