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Music and you'll okay.com. And you'll actually see like a building inspector on site when you do your blower door

tests and things like that that are just great practices I think.

But then in other jurisdictions, you go into the code enforcement officer and you ask him

if he's enforcing a blower door test and he asks, what's a blower door test?

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion of building industry

professionals. This is senior editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by Noah Lawrence of Bear Building Efficiency Resources.

Noah is a rating field inspector. You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the regular

fine homebuilding podcast at fine homebuilding.com slash podcast. You can ask questions and leave feedback there too. Noah, thanks very

much for being on the show. It's good to have you here, man. Yeah, thanks for having me.

So to be honest, I'm not exactly sure what a rating field inspector is, Noah. Can you please

briefly explain to me what that is? Yeah, so a rating field inspector is just one of the levels of certifications within the Resnet Heirs program.

And the rating field inspectors are the people that are qualified to go out and take all of the field measurements and do the blower door testing, duct blaster testing, and take all the pictures that the HRs' raters need in the office to complete the rating and do all the pictures that the hers raiders need in the office to

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