An HVAC technician won't always know when the problem that they're really up against

is that that finished room over the garage is super air leaky, and it doesn't matter how much air they supply to it,

they're not going to keep it comfortable.

Marrying the building science together with the HVAC performance, helps people solve these problem homes and find out

what's really going on.

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

professionals. This is Senior Editor Patrick McCone.

Today I'm joined by Steve Rogers of the Energy Conservatory.

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at

Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcast.

You can leave feedback and ask questions there too.

Steve, it's so good to see you again.

Thanks so much for being on the show.

Yeah, great to be here, Patrick. Thanks for inviting me.

So I'm familiar with what you do, but can you please tell listeners about your company's products and how long it's been around and maybe a little history? It would be great. Yeah, so I'm the

president of the Energy Conservatory, one of just a couple of manufacturers of blower doors and other air tightness measurement equipment that's used for basically quality assurance in building homes and even larger buildings as well.

So the blower, we so we make the blower doors for measuring airtightness of buildings.

We also make a product called the duck blaster, which is a similar device, but smaller for

measuring how airtight duct work is. As you may know in the southern part of the country,

duck work is often outside of the conditioned space. And therefore therefore when you're leaking out of the duck work

you're into your attic or into your crawl space that's a big problem for both comfort and for energy efficiency

and then we also make a device called the the true flow which is used for measuring airflow through the furnace or air handler in an hVAC system, and we make monometers as well

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