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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: We’ve had a couple of contractors come to our home and talk to us about energy-saving ideas. They’ve both said we need a blower door test. Is this some kind of gimmick or would it really help us? A ...

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 ...

Garfield County recently adopted a building code that requires a blower door test to be performed on all new homes to check air-sealing and ventilation, a county news release states. Called the 2018 ...

Most heating and cooling contractors have some familiarity with the blower door device - that big fan the weatherization guys and insulators plug into the doorway that sucks air from a home in order ...

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 ...

If you want to lower your utility bills or are just concerned about air quality, a thorough inspection is just what the ...

I would like to perform a blower door test to our house to find out where are the problems to be fixed. Anybody know how much it is this test? Any recommendation of somebody who has the fan and the ...