What We Do

We’re leading the way in middle TN in helping home owners make sure their homes are healthy and efficient.

Our Mission

Helping home owners and home dwellers (renters count, too!) understand their homes and make sure they are doing what they can to have a safe and energy efficient structure through visual analysis, scientific testing and analysis, and guidance for steps to take for maximizing money spent on home improvements or repairs.

We act as a consultant to help you sus out issues with your home’s performance and provide guideposts for making improvements. If you are building, we are your de-facto sherpa through the process.

So What Do We Actually Do?

  • Materials and labor are not cheap — you want to know your investment is effective. We can help with that.

  • If you are building your home, we can help from initial design stages all the way to completion by offering information that helps inform your choices, plus we work alongside you to make sure you and your builder are speaking the same language.

  • Do you know how your existing home works — not any one part, but all of it as an ecosystem?

  • Attics and crawlspaces are often intended to be separate from our lived-in spaces, but often are not. We can help you determine that.

  • We are highly trained and well credentialed for performing home performance and diagnostic testing.

  • We will be your advocate and supporter to help you make informed and timely choices.

BUT LET’S NOT FORGET ABOUT THE SCIENCE

  • We perform blower door testing for new builds for builders who want to “see” how their homes are coming together

  • We perform blower door testing for existing structures for owners who want to “see” how their home performs and manages air leakage

  • We can help diagnose air leakage sources

  • We can perform duct testing to determine air leakage rates of duct work in new and existing structures

  • We trouble-shoot structures to help diagnose deficiencies at the root causes for existing and new builds

  • We look at the home in a wholistic perspective — everything affects any one other thing…including your mental and physical well-being

See a basic example

So, you want to see a visual example of diagnostic testing? Okay. Take this home that was brand new at the time of the video. There were issues occurring that the home owners couldn’t quite make sense of — it didn’t take very long to begin pinpointing some areas of concern.

Once the invisible is made visible, it becomes much easier to begin providing the language necessary to communicate effectively with the builder and get the resolution desired. Most of the time, most parties want a Bonafede diagnosis and path to resolution. We’re that path. And if we’re consulting from the design onward, there are many opportunities to limit such issues from the start. It all starts with a phone call.

Just a sneak peak at some of what we do to make visible what usually can’t be seen.