Malone, Jackson County
Blower Door Testing in Malone, Florida
For builders with more than one house in Malone, and for owners building a single custom house.
Blower door tests on new Malone houses
Big Bend Services, Inc. runs blower door tests on new houses in Malone, ZIP 32445. Each house is measured against the Florida energy code limit of 7 air changes per hour at 50 pascals for Climate Zone 2.
Builders, superintendents and owner-builders can book. Call (850) 819-6031, Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, or send the form.
Several houses
Booking tests for several Malone houses
A builder with a run of houses can send them together. Each is tested on its own and gets its own result.
Details per house
For every house: the address, the permit number, the ready date and who to call on site.
Houses sent as they firm up
A house can be sent once its ready date is known, without waiting for the rest of the list.
Keeping several tests on track
If a ready date slips, call the office and a new test date is set.
Book each house once the last opening through its walls, ceiling and floor is made. Finish work can carry on around the test, and booking ahead of it leaves room for a retest on any house that needs one.
Owner-builders
Building one custom house in Malone
An owner building a single house books the same test a builder does, with the same details, and the timing depends on when your trades finish their work through the shell.
Ask each trade whose work crosses the outside walls, the ceiling below the attic or the floor to tell you when their part is done.
A contact on the day
Give your own number, or name someone who can open the house.
The attic
Vented or sealed attic on a custom Malone house
Vented attic
The ceiling is the line. Every light, fan, boot and hatch through it is an opening.
Attic sealed at the roof deck
The roof deck is the line, and the attic is opened to the house for the test, with its hatch or door left open while the fan runs.
Custom features
Custom details that add to the shell
Each one adds joints or openings that are part of what the fan measures.
Vaulted or cathedral ceilings
The roof framing becomes the boundary, so every light and vent cut into it counts.
A second floor over part of the house
Where a lower roof meets an upper wall, the framing between floors is part of the shell.
Large windows and glass doors
More frame to seal around each rough opening.
Outdoor kitchens and living areas
Gas, water and power lines through the outside wall to reach them.
Skylights
The curb and the shaft through a vented attic are part of the boundary.
Fireplace flues
The chase around a factory-built flue, where it passes through the ceiling.
A wood stove
Its pipe through the ceiling or wall is one more penetration.
A central vacuum
Its exhaust runs through an outside wall.
Test day
How each house is left
Every house on the list is set up the same way: outside windows and doors closed without tape, dampers shut, interior doors open, registers open, and heating and cooling off.
The fan
It is fitted in an exterior doorway and holds the house at the test pressure while the leakage is measured.
Plumbing traps
Run water into any drain that has not been used, since an empty trap is an open pipe to the vent stack.
The door from the garage
Shut and latched.
Over the limit
If one house reads over 7
That house has its leaks corrected and is tested again under the same conditions. The size of the gap to 7 gives a sense of how much sealing that house needs.
Booking the retest
Send the date the corrections will be done for that address.
Other services
Other work for the same houses
Gutters, garage doors and wire shelving come from the same company.
One call per job site
List the other work for each address when you send the test details.
Same county
Blower door testing in other towns
What to expect
How the tests are booked
- 1
Send the build details
Address, permit number and when the house will be ready.
- 2
Test booked
We give you a date for the test.
- 3
Test run
The house is tested once it is ready.
- 4
After a failed test
Corrections are made and the house is tested again.
Does each house need its own site contact?
Is a model home tested?
Does a two-story house get tested floor by floor?
Do slab and raised-floor houses test the same way?
Does a house with a gas range need anything different?
Get a quote
Request a Blower Door Test in Malone
Send the details for each Malone house: address, permit number, ready date and site contact.
