Monday Full Day Workshops

Full Scope Retrofits for Performance & Profit: The How Tos of the Work & the Business. Part Two: Shell Work

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  Gavin Healy

  Co-Owner
  Balance Point Home Performance, Inc.
  Nevada City, California

To do a home performance retrofit and get great results, you need to do a great job on the shell/envelope of the home. We can design and build the greatest hvac systems in the world but without a great envelope, there won't be great comfort or efficiency and the air quality will suffer.
We will describe and detail the methods we use to obtain great measured results in our retrofits.

Knee walls
Attic air sealing and insulation
Wall insulation (drill and fill, bibs, and wet wall)
Crawlspace vapor barriers
Floor insulation

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate what to focus on with air sealing an attic and a crawlspace
• Describe what insulation measures should be for a high performance home retrofit
• Describe why insulation is such an important part of a home performance retrofit