CONTROLLING THE ELEMENTS
EVERYDAY THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE FIGHT TO DESTROY YOUR HOME
Heat moves from areas of higher temperature to areas of lower temperature. Conduction, Convection, and Raidant heat flow is a cat and mouse game to maintain comfort from heat loss and heat gain. The heat lost in the winter must be replaced by your heating system and the heat gained in the summer must be removed by your cooling system. In a underperforming home in climate zone 3, twice a year a homeowner will spend extra fighthing The Dog Days of summer and Old Man Winter.
Georgia has warm humid summer nights. Stack effect ,HVAC systems,and wind depressurization can draw moist air into building wall cavities, where it may condense and cause moisture damage. If it is pressurization or depressurization, comfort, health, building integrity, and finaces are all at risk.
Mositure in your home can come from many sources. Mositure can enter your home by air leakage, intrusion, leaky ducts, or seeping through foundations. Things will happen but controlling the elements make things much better. Oftertimes contractors don't understand Building Science, so comfort isn't designed in the plans.
Air Quality in and around the home is always a mystery. There is no one product or 30 minute service call that can fix all of your IAQ issues. Pollutants come from people, pets, building materials, outdoor sources, and a million other things. An improperly installed HVAC system or a spray foamed attics, can cause catastrophic failures to IAQ and even the home structure.
Triaging The Home's Performance
Blower Door & Duct Testing.
Total Home Commisioning
Air Sealing The Leaks
There is no need to pay good money to bad contractors to build or repair without guidelines or standards. We all know too well the hardship from a major financial investment, such as buying a new house of poor quality, even though you had a home inspection by a S.O.P. Professional Inspector, the Builder G.C., and the City Inspector. How about the overpriced HVAC replacement that is worse than the old system in its last days? Perhaps you needed the attic insulation removed, air sealed, then reinstalled, instead of having the heating and cooling systems replaced. The best solution to avoid being a victim of poor quality blues is to benefit from TRU-Results Performance Inspection before a project has started. Technology and knowledge have advanced beyond rules of thumb and guessing.
Tru Results implements a comprehensive service to create a path to a comfortable, healthy, and resource-efficient home. Our inspections, performance testing and improvements follow industry approved codes, standards and guidelines. The opportunity for achieving comfort and beyond in new construction should never be missed. It can also be achieved and maintained in existing homes.
1st Stage Quality Evaluation
The beginning of new construction is where you minimize the pain.
Envelope & Mechanical Testing
The buffer zone to hardship and craftsmanship is 3rd party testing
Final Stage & Commissioning
The first inspection shouldn't be the final inspection.
Typical home inspections fall in line with the builders and realtors desires to sell a property. Being a home inspector for years, we always felt the burden of not killing the closing deal for the realtor that hired you. That would be considered biting the hand that feeds you. With Tru-Result no one is getting bit here, because we don't have a dog in the fight. Our Performance Audits and Inspection Trust the Science; we deal with a lot of B.S in our inspections and reports. That B.S is Building Science.