Blower Door Test Equipment

An inexpensive but accurate off the shelf pressure gage is used to measure the house depressurization.

Blower door test equipment. Retrotec has been manufacturing blower door and duct testing equipment for over 30 years. The furnace blower blower door mounted in a window. There are three primary components to a blower door. Click here for blower door accessoriesclick here for duct tester accessoriesthe minneapolis blower door has long been recognized as the best designed and supported building airtightness testing system in the world.

This diy blower door uses a multi speed furnace blower for the fan and is fitted into a window rather than a door. With our equipment you can perform airtightness checks to reduce energy costs and interior air quality for overall comfort. Retrotec testing equipment including blower doors duct testers pressure gauges pressure relief vents and more for residential and commercial use. We do not know whether or not this system has been used or not the tools and tubing are still in the original plastic and appear unused as does the two rolls of grill mask.

Blower door and duct testing equipment are designed to identify air leakage in a home building or facility. For example it can test buildings up to 3 500 ft2 by 10 ft 325 m2 by 3 m with leakage up to 10m3 h m2 or 8 9 ach 50pa. With a little scrounging it can be built for inside of 30. Measure airtightness in homes and buildings with blower doors and duct testers.

Conducting a test determines if there are unsealed cracks resulting in air leakages that require immediate sealing. Blower doors how to select the right test equipment for measuring building air leakage. Minneapolis blower door model 3 with dg 1000 pressure and flow gauge bd3 kit 001. The model e3 fan is designed for testing residential and small commercial buildings.

The world s leading manufacturer of building diagnostic tools. Everblue has partnered with the energy conservatory and retrotec to give our course participants discounts on the equipment listed above. A blower door is a machine used to measure the airtightness of buildings. It can also be used to measure airflow between building zones to test ductwork airtightness and to help physically locate air leakage sites in the building envelope.

1 a calibrated variable speed fan capable of inducing a range of airflows sufficient to. At the end of the day you can expect to spend between 5 000 and 6 000 on new blower door and duct testing equipment. This is an older model retrotec blower door system series 2000.