Are You In or Out?

We scientifically assess and test homes. We act as consultants for mapping an action plan. We maximize your money spent.

Middle Tennessee’s housing stock mostly was built pre-energy guidelines and energy code adoption/adherence. Our immediate region in Cookeville, TN, still does not require basic testing to determine how well a home has been built, nor how well an HVAC’s ducting system has been installed. That’s where we come in.

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Consultation/Site Assessments

Building your dream home? Not sure what choices you have, or what choices are most important? We can help at every stage of the process acting as guide, interpreter, intermediary, and problem solver. We have the experience, the building science, and the education to make sure you have the opportunity to make choices before choices are made for you.

If you’re a builder looking to up your game, improve your processes, or just want to build a whiz-bang better home for your clients, we can confidentially lend our consulting hand. After all, the better the home, the healthier the home, the healthier and happier the people in it.

Blower Door

Find out how having a blower door test can help you “see” how spaces inside your home communicate with the outside.

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Duct Testing

Find out how having a duct test can help you “see” how your HVAC system shares air with outside spaces.

Find Out How

VOCs, “mold,” formaldehyde. Our indoor air can be complicated. We use industry-leading testers to help determine what is getting in your house and in your body.

Indoor Air Testing

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Radon Testing

You can’t touch it, taste it, smell it, see it.

But it’s there, and in many homes (1 in 15 per EPA), it’s elevated to a concentrated range that poses long-term health hazards for the occupants in your structure. We use only the best commercial equipment and maintain national certification for testing, analysis, and mitigation system compliance inspection. With

FYI Corner: Lithium Battery Fire Safety

This corner media will be periodically updated. At the moment, this is a well-produced PSA for fire safety related to lithium ion batteries and potential fire dangers. It was produced by the Fire Safety Research Institute. It is shocking and something we all should be paying heed to in our homes.