Learning Labs
How Building Science Explains Common HVAC Complaints
Ken Summers, Comfort Institute
Are you frustrated by these routine HVAC complaints and callbacks?
Low savings from new high efficiency equipment?
Still have dust after buying an expensive air cleaner?
High or low humidity in the home?
Ducts and registers sweating?
Unexplainable CO alarms, backdrafting or pressure switch tripping?
Your customers look to you to solve comfort, high utility bill and IAQ problems. Understanding how the equipment, ducts, building and ventilation systems interact is the key. This crash course on “Home Performance Contracting” explains how to diagnose duct and thermal envelope problems, how to fit performance testing into an HVAC business, and how to profit from new “beyond the box” solutions.
State and federal Home Performance grant and rebate initiatives are popping up all over. Come and hear how to take advantage of the opportunity!











