{"id":118702,"date":"2015-09-09T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=c02840c8fb6bb06104db81c2eccc4534"},"modified":"2015-09-09T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:16:05","slug":"a-few-pressure-testing-tips-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/a-few-pressure-testing-tips-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Pressure Testing Tips and Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Blower door and duct leakage testing can be easier if you use these techniques        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/few-pressure-testing-tips-and-tricks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/blower-door-duct-leakage-pressure-test.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blower door and duct leakage testing\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/few-pressure-testing-tips-and-tricks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/blower-door-crawl-of-shame.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blower door crawl of shame\" width=\"144\" height=\"110\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/few-pressure-testing-tips-and-tricks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/home-energy-rater-hers-training-class-vent-cap.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vent Caps for duct leakage testing\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A typical BPI Building Analyst spends four to five days in a class learning how to do blower door testing, along with all the other stuff they need to know. <span>HERS<\/span><span>Index or scoring system for energy efficiency established by the Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET) that compares a given home to a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Reference Home based on the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code. A home matching the reference home has a HERS Index of 100. The lower a home&rsquo;s HERS Index, the more energy efficient it is. A typical existing home has a HERS Index of 130; a net zero energy home has a HERS Index of 0. Older versions of the HERS index were based on a scale that was largely just the opposite in structure&#8211;a HERS rating of 100 represented a net zero energy home, while the reference home had a score of 80. There are issues that complicate converting old to new or new to old scores, but the basic formula is: New HERS index = (100 &#8211; Old HERS score) * 5.<\/span> raters get all that, too, but also have to learn how to do duct leakage testing. Then there&rsquo;s that whole big bunch of people who have gone through one or two day intensive blower door and duct leakage training for energy code compliance. When they&rsquo;re done with the training, how do they figure out how to do pressure testing in the real world?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/few-pressure-testing-tips-and-tricks\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5291,4710,13538],"class_list":["post-118702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-blower-door","tag-duct-leakage","tag-pressure-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}