Houston Builder has some of the BEST BUILDING DETAILS I've ever seen

[Music] buo friends special treat for you today we're on the road down in Houston Texas I'm going to introduce you to my buddy Ryan Rush Ryan I met actually through Instagram he runs a fantastic feed called brick house design build and I've seen Ryan at your jobs over the years mainly from your Instagram feed some really good details some really good building science details you have really applied your knowledge of building science to your build so we're going to take take a tour of one of Ryan's jobs and this is actually a speck house isn't it Ryan yeah it's a speck house so we do all of the Acquisitions of the lot um we do architecture all the building science performance and ultimately we sell it I love it I love it our goal is just to make a house that we would want to live in and so that drives a lot of our decisions that's fantastic and I would tell you that uh you know typically when you're building speculative houses you may be more worried about what the finished look is you're less worried about what's Behind the Walls as a builder but what I like about you Ryan is what I can tell from your Instagram feed you really care about the details and what you can't see later and I think that might be a bit of a unique quality for you uh so we're going to see some good details today's build show all about brick house design build let's get going Ryan give me the uh the basics on this house this is a a design that you and your wife came up with is that right yeah so my wife starts uh with the plan um she does all of our architecture work on the remodel space and some of these larger new builds this is a 6,000 ft house we do bring on an architect just so we can get it through the city and have an architect of record that's not us yeah um but yeah so this is the house in the memorial area of of Houston uh Beltway 8 and and I 10 it will be for sale in the coming months right yeah yeah so we don't post a lot of pictures of a finished product because somebody can always see the finished product and so what we like to do is we like to document the process of the actual building and what's Behind the Walls and why we made the decisions to do certain things so people can go look at all that later and at the end you've got a house that's available for sale where you've got 200 videos and you can see exactly how it was built and it's beautiful when it's done and you're walking it but now we can rewind time and see how well built it was sure so we can go look at the details I mean all this is going to get covered up so we use zip for the sheathing it actually has zip r okay so this is zip R six we're seeing here which if you're not familiar that's a 1 in insulation board sandwiched between the zip and the studs right yep and am I noticing that these windows are are uh bucked out from the sheathing is that what's Happening Here Yeah so we've got a brick detail right here with a brick ledge but in the end when we're using the r six we need a nail base at the edge right there for our window flange and so by taking you know 3in 16d penny nails you know back into the framing we can nail our flanges into the window Buck okay let's back up one quick second so uh when you install this sheathing you got to use a longer nail because you still need one inch embedment in your studs correct and you're looking for this still to be your sheer detail even though you've got foam in there correct so you got to follow the Huber directions on nail pattern uh in both the edges and the field but then instead of installing the window and that window having really long nails back to the framing you went with a 1x4 all the way around which we call a window Buck MH which brings the window forward but now you got something solid to nail to correct and so we go ahead and detail you know the open exposed edges of the r six with zip tape all the way back into the framing so you can see the zip tape on the inside so that's all Air sealed onto the back side of the window smart and then you've covered up that 1x4 with zip tape all the way around correct uh and you didn't have to use any stretch tape you just use regular zip on there to we we use stretch tape strategically um you see there's some stretch tape right here in the Cor Corners uh Huber actually does a really good job of releasing um execution details they got a huge catalog there should be some stretch tape up there at those Corners right in that corner there's a good example of the stretch tape in that corner and that's typically because I I presume those are high-risk zones for for leakage especially around tape and multiple planes so hitting stretch tape strategically um we like stretch tape it's it's a great product and then you just nailed the window on with standard kind of roofing nails a detail we've used for decades that's correct so we've got shims on the inside of the window just for support we actually before the window goes in all of our window sills are beveled so we've got a one quarter slope out right in case there's ever any incremental water back there it's got a place to go and then this is where it would come out so when we have the window sill sloped we want to counter shim it with the shims to get it back level got it right so we've got composite shims every foot here to make a level make a level surface so it can sit on and then water can drain out right there and that's the only are area that's not taped got it really smart good detail man now if this was siding and not brick would you still Buck this out like this on these windows with this R six um we we didn't you didn't we didn't do that because then it gets an odd detail right here gotcha um so what we ended up doing there was instead of using Nails we actually use screws okay so you screwed the window so you get a little bit more control with your flange and with screws and now you got a normal that makes sense now Ryan I'm seeing two layers of different tapes down here uh and of course your your Shea's sticking off so you get this kind of uh recess back here CU that sheeting is an inch and a half total thickness sure what's going on with your tapes back here um so we've got a couple different things that we we tried here and one thing that I like to do is try different products and just test them um so what we've got right here this is a detail that I see U that's a really good detail this is the the fum 430 gray tape from Sega from Sega and it's an awesome detail but I actually ran out of fum tape so the the areas that are you know finished in the back siding those all have fum tape details but we wanted to blow our door test this before we put sheetrock and insulation in and we had some pretty large leak zones like right here and I think right here is there is there a plumbing penetration there maybe or something like a downpipe yep yeah and so you know it knocked away a little bit of the brick ledge right here that's why you see there's a double layer of tape right there got and this is a fantastic product it works really really well um this is another tape that I've started to use this is 3M all- weather flashing tape 8067 um I'm still testing this uh this works really really well um with OSB panels it works really well for an air seal inside of the windows really um I'm I'm still out on testing it for for the concrete um it's a stretchy tape and so the areas where it's not stretched it's performed really really really well and it doesn't appear to be an asphalt based tape I don't see any kind of dark it's he it's heavy acrylic so this there's more acrylic on this tape than any other tape tape I've ever seen really so a real thick acrylic adhesive on there which means it's probably going to stick pretty well it will pull off the fibers of OSB wow I mean that's what Zip system sheathing tape is too it's an acrylic adhesive that sticks really well so that's that's interesting it's a similar simar feeling yeah and it kind of feels like Zip stretch tape it's just in a in a 2in version and so we tested this with with the blower door even though I probably like fum a little bit better we'll probably go back with fum and of course we need to detail this but whenever we did the blower door and we looked at this leak Zone this leak zone is really really important because this is where all your your high pressure is for infiltration at the house pressure plane exfiltration up at the top so and this is also where your bugs come from so we do want to detail this and when we did the blower door test we were not getting any leaks that's awesome so it it worked for the intended purpose way to go Ryan I'm also noticing uh this yellow uh I'm assuming that sto rra Vapor berryer down there yeah that's that's wrap that up and then cut it at gray level yeah so that's the the stego uh 10 mil commercial wrap actually we use the red tape with that you know in Texas a lot of guys want to cut out the bottom of the beams and have that concrete Bear right onto the soil I've had that problem in Austin has have you accounted that in Houston at all uh yeah until we tell them what the detail is going to look like and I actually started having our engineer detail that Vapor Barrier into their drawings oh that's awesome so super smart whenever I'm working with my Subs that we have a standard that we're working with it's not just a weirdo Builder detail it's the engineer who calls it out yeah and and I run that monolithically so this house right here I want to say has 78 peers uhhuh 12 ft deep okay and so the stego runs monolithic through that perer cap nice they like to cut that out as well and that doesn't quite make sense to do a vapor barrier and have swiss cheese all over the house so is is one clear layer all all the way through through super smart and then a grade cut it and you're done and now 98% of that soil moisture is not going to get into your concrete and it's going to stay dry yeah usually the issues that we see right here from sprinklers yeah and so a sprinkler you know this is a flower bed so sprinkler malfunctions it ends up you know doing something with the sheathing or just gets this wet and it doesn't look like a problem until you have wood floors on the inside right and then all that water in our environment is wanting to go to dry sucking through the wood floors so that's then you got a wood floor that's really not a leak it's your Landscaping outside and that water wicking into your concrete so that's cheap insurance cheap insurance yeah really smart I noticed when I walked up Ryan that you've got a looks to be a special kind of foam going on in this overhang area what's happening up there yeah that's that's closed cell foam and so we want a monolithic layer you see how we have the trusses right here and you see how that Clos cell rolls through through that top truss we don't want a thermal break through that truss um but we want to keep any incidental moisture or in our climate it's vapor yeah right this isn't going to get wet from rain no but it's going to be humid as heck out here but when it's 70 80% humidity outside and inside is dry and cool that vapor is going to exert a force to want to go through the subfloor yep and so if we don't insulate there or if we have insulation there that leaks air mhm that could condense whenever it hits a cold surface and then you have dripping in front of your front door yeah right and then you've got a subf Flor up there we use the inch and e advant but if it gets wet seasonally that means it's expanding and Contracting seasonally and we have tile floors it's a great detail so that doesn't work very well got any we call this a cold floor and so we do the same thing on the garage ceiling and the portica Shir ceiling and if you were building a curl space in Houston that would also be a fantastic crawl space detail CU it's going to keep your subfloor uh from having condensation issues yep from your crawl space am I noticing that that uh LVL Beam on either side here looks to be cut and is not actually running through into the structure does that zip run behind that l so that the zip R six goes all the way to the bottom of the advant subfloor and so the reason we do that is because we this gets really really hard to air seal MH um especially trusses there's a double truss right here and you effectively can't air seal it so this piece of zip right here here is a continuous sheet all the way up to our Second Story subfloor and then we Bolt the LVL into the framing so then all these trusses can hang from the LVL super smart super smart so your engineer probably uh gave you a bolt design and a pattern and said here's how to do it and so you had to actually think about that ahead of framing with your engineer before the trusses were delivered from Builder First Source and say hey Mr engineer here's what I want to do in this location so they're bolting through the 1 in poly ISO and these are 6 in SDS screws quar inch diameter every six inch love it super smart man and now this air barrier is running continuous you also have a 1-in foam behind those lvls as well yeah all thermally broken so it's all totally thermally broken that's awesome man now what's up with the uh with the weirdo uh kind of Uh semic custom front door entry that we're seeing here sure so we've got um in the end this will be a custom 9t steel door okay um highly architectural um pretty door but long lead item and what I wanted to do with this house was I wanted to know how we were performing um before we got to the very end of the house and said you know it's time to do our blower door test right and you actually need to know that early because you need to have that number as an input to your HVAC design so if you're setting condensers up there and you don't know how much air leakage you have you're guessing that's a great great point so we we set this up like this and made it to where it would fit a retr tech blower door uhhuh so instead of being a 6x9 door it's a 3x8 door and so this is where we had the blow door test and so we did you mind sharing what some of your numbers were yeah sure um the very first one uh we did with my friend Jesse hunt with emergent development he brought it over um we were at three okay um we were incredibly by the way code here is five code's five um we were incredibly leaky over the garage in the portica share where we had advanc subf floor mhm um not sealed and not taped uh and no uh spray foam in place yet either no spray foam this is all just relying on on the zip and exterior details um and so we were at three and those all those panels were leaking everywhere it felt like an air hockey table oh interesting so when you turn on the blower door put the house under a negative pressure all that air leakage is coming through the floor which we're not going to go detail as Builders because they're going to put Clos cell foam underneath that right and that's a great air barrier right so after we did that with the the close cell we came back and had my Raider set up with a blower door and we blew a 1.1 1.1 that's fantastic we're happy with it I I uh the HVAC design was planning for a one and so at this point I don't think there's a need to do much more and that's pretty drywall I mean I would say that anybody that's getting scores below 1.5 we should giving you a huge any Builder a huge round of applause 1.5 is really hard to get to and you have to do some details really well to get there uh so 1.1 that's a terrific result way to go Ryan and I'm also not seeing any weirdo uh European Windows IND doors or other I mean you've got pretty normal things happening here Sierra Pacific Windows uh you know uh spray foamed roof line so you didn't do anything crazy here to get to that score that's impressive just careful detailing yeah and just planning yeah speaking of detailing comeing here guys uh Ryan you mentioned earlier that you started using this 3M tape on the inside as well this is a detail you don't see in a lot of American homes pretty common to see in Europe with some European style tapes talk to me about this so the standard detail right here is to take your $6 can foam and just hit it real quick in about 4 seconds Y and then they leave and it passes inspection yeah and then you've got the trim guys that come in and they remove all of it all of it's gone yep and so this detail is really important that this is a real firm air seal and it doesn't go away after we install trim and so when we have the air barrier right here what that allows is it allows it eliminates any sort of pressure that's inside of the cavity so water just Falls and just drains down and out I don't want a driving force and so if we can have a really good air seal here we won't have a driving force for water right so that's why the foam doesn't work cuz even if you do foam perfectly you're still going to leak through foam I foam's done yep um some people this detail which we did right here we used a backer rod and um this 3M flashing tape and again it's a ton of acrylic it's stretchy this gets installed really fast I bet I I love this detail um myself is that compared to some of the European tapes um right now now you can get 75 ft of this or $19 how about that that's great and you don't need any more than a 2 in they do sell wider two three four six and you buying that online you buying that off the shelf locally I haven't found it locally um I need to find an online distributor and I need to start buying cases of it yeah it's really good that's awesome very cool love it uh I'm curious what you're doing since you've got a 1.1 A50 house talk to me about fresh air I suspect not a lot of Houston Builders are doing really anything with fresh air on their houses what's what's been your strategies and what are you doing for this house so the issue that I have with the way other people do fresh air is they put a a fresh air damper in on their AC unit and all it is is an open and closed device yep and in the end you have no idea how much fresh air you're getting M and so when it's hot and humid way too much fresh air is also a problem and so there's very clear guidelines to what you raing humidity in the house you're just bringing humidity in the house and if it's connected to the unit you don't know how much when where it's going sure so we actually have a an Erv that we bring in fresh air completely independently ducted from the rest of the system and so we can dial in and we know exactly how much fresh air we're getting in this house so we can go down if we want to go down we can go up if we want to ramp it up we can put it in boost mode okay and which which Erv you put on this house this house has the brone 160 AI oh yeah Co I I like the AI because it it's the one that's easy to balance yeah it's kind of got it uh has a brain that can kind of balance for you and help you figure that out and I I want to make sure we're not positively pressuring or negative pressuring the house we want to maintain a neutral pressure and that's the easiest unit to do that that's pretty awesome I wonder if you could show me a couple of your Erv Outlet inlets uh around the house how about we uh go up to one of the bedrooms or bathrooms upstairs let's do it meet you upstairs [Music] okay so we're in it looks like an auxiliary bedroom and this is a full bath off there and I'm noticing right away that it looks like you've got an Erv uh exhaust here and maybe a second Erv exhaust there what am I looking at Ryan yeah so these are the this is actually the supply for this unit uh for the bathroom and that's the exhaust so this is actually air conditioning right here this is air conditioning right here right on a little 4 in bucket on a little 4 in that's neat and so I found that when you use the 4x8 like especially in closets you have difficulty controlling the cfms and so these with the fante tech units I can dial in the supply that's what this is a fantech that's a fantech unit it's the mgs4 and that's the mg E4 is that what these boxes are right here yeah okay cool I haven't seen this before so mg E4 so mg uh e for exhaust I'm assuming and it's a 4 in uh and this is the exhaust yep and that must be the supply side is that's the supply side and you notice how we use uh round can lights so just having the round just looks good that's pretty cool and you can dial in uh the air flow by adjusting this right here that's awesome so as that unscrews you're getting more air flow through yep and on a high performance house like this I suspect there's not a lot of CFM needed in a bathroom from a closet so getting you know 10 12 CFM no big deal out of out of a little 4-in guy like this correct and there's a lot of like you know interior spaces where yeah the load is not very high and so last thing we want is for a bathroom or a toilet room to be cold just because they put the smallest 4 in that they could get in there but this allows us to damp it down into we're going to put Flo hoods up here so we know exactly what's coming in here exactly what's coming out smart and so this is the exhaust and so we've done it like like this because the room has load just from heat gain but we need to consistently exhaust around high humidity areas and so this is tied in with the Erv it comes through all the bathrooms and so that's where we're generating smells where we're generating exhaust and we put it right over the tub shower that's the highest exhaust location um strategically right here is a toilet it also works very well yeah really smart for the toilet and it's always running but is there a boost mode option as as well on that brone that you've got yeah so the way so code says if you're running continuous exhaust you know through that brone Erv we need to be at 20 CFM okay right if you have a typical bath fan it's 50 right but this is going to be running all the time and so the benefit of this is if if somebody forgets to turn on the fan which you might recognize with kids found showers they don't use them at all ever ever so this at least gives you something all the time super smart 20 CFM all the time going out now we're pairing it with a device that that brone has which is a a boost switch okay and with the Boost switch they have a couple versions um we're we're using the higher-end version but what it has on it is a humidity sensor oo nice so if it gets so it's going 20 CFM all the time but if it senses high humidity which is a builder I don't care about this I don't care about this this this doesn't cause problems with the house smells are not AAL this does yeah right so then if it senses the spike it'll turn it into boost mode and then that'll run the Erv at Max Capacity yeah I like that so we're using the 160 Ai and then these are 20 CFM I think we have four or five of these so we're standard 80 100 CFM and we can boost up to 160 if we need that's fantastic that's fantastic I love it Ryan and I'm suspecting that in other low load areas not the exhaust but that Supply is this what you mentioned you use this in closets as well yeah so I use this for all fours and all fives and the reason is because it's really low load and so it's hard to to manage airf flow through a duct system so like if if you come into this area this is just a a closet and the load here is again really low so it's probably 13 18 CFM Y and we've got the same system and it's aligned with the light they're both circles um when you buy these it comes with the rough in housing and the grill all in one box and so it's just really convenient and what is you have any IDE idea what the manual J load Cal on this house was you told me it's a 6,000 ft house it's pretty big right so I'm suspecting you need 10 tons or 12 tons for a house like this uh so 6,000 ft house we've got two 3 ton heat pumps man that's so awesome we're going 1,000 square ft per ton that's a really good metric y'all th000 squ feet a ton in the old days when I moved to Texas in 2005 the rule of thumb for contractors for new construction was 400 ft to the ton is you know no manual J just oh you know it probably worked fine at 400 F feet a ton you're two and a half times more efficient on that and it's been designed by an engineer too so that those those aren't loads that are just pulled out of the air Ryan actually did a blower door during construction of verify that the manual J Assumption of 1 A50 was correct and he was within 10% of that number that's fantastic most of the time we take a swag at the number and then we never check to see if the swag even works and then most houses get way too big of an air conditioner which means that in a humid climate like Houston or maybe in Austin ACS run way too little and if an air conditioner doesn't run for at least 15 minutes it doesn't do any dehumidifying and that's why you get these cold clammy houses in Texas when I met my wife in the '90s uh we weren't even living in Texas we were in the Northeast she would take a sweater everywhere she went in the summertime because in Texas you're used to super cold spaces to to try and get some dehumidification your house is not going to have that problem your AC is going to run a lot which is a good thing you're Heating in Cooling in the house with a four-cylinder engine that's correct size that's going to run a lot and that's going to pull that humidity out and we have a unique climate here in climate zone 2A hot humid yeah you do today's a good example of it to where in every house in Houston the AC is not on but it's 75% humidity outside it's really high out there right now so even if we design our system correctly it's still not going to work in certain times of the year being the shoulder Seasons so April and October um so we've got two dehumidifiers in this house as well one one on each floor and I use the April air e100s okay there you go and just to uh just to check it our humidity right now is 58% humidity and it's midday I bet it was more like 80% humidity this morning it was yeah so 85 degrees and 60% humidity is uncomfortable that's really smart dude uh I'll tell you what Ryan let's go to the back of the house I think there's a couple things there we wanted to mention we'll see you back there Ryan I know you got a fireplace before we go outside yeah uh tight House 1 ac50 that's getting have a hard time drawing are you doing a makeup air for this fireplace no not at all um really what we found out in high performance houses are these are huge leak zones yes they are damper never closes all the time you got stack effect it's just sucking up air all the time y um so this fireplace is completely fake this is there's no flu in here no flu are you putting an electric box in or what are you doing no we don't like the way electric boxes look like um so it'll all just be tiled out um it'll be graned on the floor flushed with the wood looking perfect for Santa Claus and guest but performance- wise fireplaces are big problems I love so we do have a real fireplace outside at your house that's the fireplace in Houston we don't need a fireplace these are problems so we want to look good we want to look traditional um we don't want to have no fireplace right there Santa Claus so yeah we do have it set up in case somebody wants to retrofit it put some candles in there they could light every once in a while but that's it oh Ryan way to go dude I like that detail that's excellent oh yeah Ryan I bet this is the exact same detail that we saw in the front porch isn't it you guys an LVL bolted through your Zip system zip R sheeting you framed this wall this wall and this wall and then framed the ceiling correct and I'm also noticing that your sheathing runs all the way up to your roof deck and you did a detail that I figured out too is if you pre foam it then you won't have all that open cell foam blasting through there yeah this is a really complicated area to insulate right so if you don't do anything um well typically I see nothing at the ceiling Y and then insulators might extend it the roof line not quite sure where that insulation stops what's inside and what's outside right here we have attic on all three sides there's nothing there there's no rooms there there's a master bedroom with a vault ceiling right here and so we didn't want all of these beams or ceiling joist to break through our R six and so by detailing like this we just got continuous zip all the way uh and a thermal breake super smart I love it uh reminder to the Builders out there when you see the these big open Ved or big Open Spaces like this that don't have ventilation you should make sure you throw I'm sure Ryan's already doing something with ventilation in here but you could use a ventilated Hardy offet you could use a core vent strip like I did in a bunch of areas in my house but uh when you're framing This Kind of Perfect wall style uh or a modified perfect wall and that sheathing is running all the way up you want to try and get anything it might be humidity or vapor in there to have an exit out of that space I like it Ryan looks really good man looks really good let me see the back of the house I'm curious what you did back here Ryan what's the uh I'm seeing two pipes in your Gables yeah sticking out I don't normally see uh pipes and Gables like that what what are we seeing here so we've got 75 squares on the roof and we don't have a single roof penetration 7500t roof and not one penetration not one holy cow that's awesome so when you understand the building science you can affect the architecture and hopefully the architect listens to you this is one of those details this is the master bedroom downstairs where we've got a vault ceiling but it's actually got a false Vault so we can have another Vault above it smart so we can insulate the top Vault y we can bring AC in all the way to the outside exterior space super smart and that vent pipe right there is all the venting from the master bath downstairs your plumbing vent yeah so shower toilet sinks it all clusters in the attic and then just runs right outside the house that's Terri all you got to know there is just to keep it at a slight slope MH as sewer gases rise right right and and same with this other big one I'm seeing over there that looks like a 3in pipe maybe that's the same thing that's a 3inch pipe so by doing this one actually keeps that from being a 4in pipe okay so it's a little cheaper to do two of them instead of one we could have combined them all it's a little bit more PVC and now you never have that flashing boot that needs changed out on that roof and here in Houston the the paint that they use on those boots is really chalky it gets destroyed I find that I have to repaint those boots every year yeah and so I I think it's unreasonable expectation for the homeowner and the buyer of this house I don't even know who the buyer is but I think it's unreasonable expectation that they're going to do it they're going to remember to do it or they have a maintenance charge every year to do it right so if we can just do a couple things right now strategically I think it just makes for much better product I love it and the thing that I want to point out there too is you were really smart in designing the house without a hip roof uh where you wouldn't have been able to do that potentially he put some Gables in uh I did that in my house on purpose having those Gables so I'd have a little bit more attic space and I've got walls to be able to run pipes out of that have overhangs over them just like you've got here yeah really smart r i noticed over here by this door that looks like it's coming soon that you've got some Tamlin wrap y uh what is that product that's the drain drain wrap by tamon yeah it's the drain wrap and so it's got those little I think they're 1 and a half millimet bumps all throughout it and so it's it's a drainage plane okay and so we've tested this you know it's effectively a rain screen yep um but when you use a rain screen on zip water can still the Zip's still all exposed and so I think it's about the same cost yeah but I like this a little bit better because we can we can shingle laap it smart right and so for the the whole house we can effectively take 98% of the water off of the zip and increase the durability substantially yeah and I think the cost on this was maybe maybe 2,000 to do the whole house I think it's money well spent we probably don't need it yeah um I just I like insurance I mean it's cheap insurance it's really smart I I'm super impressed with you Ryan you built a heck of a good house man appreciate you stopping by really fun to hang out with you guys you should be following Brian on Instagram brick house design build I think is the actual uh we'll put a link to it below and here it is right here as well Brian really appreciate you giving me tour Wells down here in Houston awesome anytime good stuff guys if you're not currently a subscriber hit that subscribe button you know we've got new and nerdy videos out every single Tuesday by the way uh Ryan I'm going to invite you to build show live up in Austin Texas I'm there I don't know if you heard the announcement build show live Austin Texas November 2024 so like one year from now in Austin you can get updates at build show live.com that being said will you help me with my outro have you ever seen my videos before once or twice follow us on Tik Tok or Instagram otherwise we'll see you next time on the build [Music] show we stopped at Ryan's office and he had his brone Erv here Ryan will you give me a quick tour this is the brone 160 AI Erv and what that means is its fans are capable of moving 160 CFM in boost mode Max Capacity uh Frostwood custom we're going to be using about 100 CFM so we'll bring fresh air in right here MH and then it comes over into here and then we're going to dump that fresh air near our return we don't want to put it we don't want to combine it with the units everything separately ducted always works better so we'll dump fresh air next to a return so then it can go through the HVAC system get equally distributed all throughout the house on the exhaust side we'll tie in our bathroom exhausts so meaning all your will come in here and we saw those 4in uh models 4in fantex fantex so they all tie together in right here and then they go out the house and the reason I like the the AI series from brone is because it auto balances and self balances so if these get out of whack I'm not going to be positively pressuring the house on accident or negatively pressuring the house on accident so it always makes sure it goes exactly what you want it to in balance and then you can dial it in to the nearest CFN so if it's on a really humid day a really nasty day where we don't really want to bring in fresh air we might bring it way down maybe 50 CFM if we have a party we have a lot of people a lot of exhaling a lot of carbon dioxide we're going to want to put this into boost mode smart and then talk about about the controllers you got two controllers that uh go with this uh this one is the uh bath controller I'm assuming yeah and so what's nice about this controller is it's actually Wireless and so you can put it anywhere you want to um a lot of times when people install these ervs they forget to wire them to put them into boost mode and so I think it's a retrofit solution but what I like about this is right here it's got the humidity Spike sensor on it and so if we're running 20 CFM of exhaust in our bathrooms but we need more this is going to sense the humidity spiking and it's going to turn it into overdrive into boost mode that's smart so instead of our bath exhausting at 20 CFM it might be 40 CFM that's pretty cool all controlled by the controller wireless Bluetooth so and then this is the brone Ure system you can combine these if you want to this is in in my opinion one of the best indoor air quality monitors on the market right now it detects temperature humidity um PM 2.5 bcc's and I want to say a couple other things CO2 there you go there and so you could tie it with CO2 again if you're having a party if you've got 50 people over your house it senses a rise in CO2 and will also turn this on or into boost mode that's pretty smart and you can control this on there's an app on your phone that and you can look at historical data so say you're cooking with gas and you see all of a sudden something spiking um bcc's pm2.5 which cooking with gas does y you can look at the data historically on your phone so I think it's really cool gives you a lot of insight as a builder to know exactly what's going on in your houses that's pretty cool bran thanks for the quick tour man appreciate it thanks for coming out

Channel: Matt Risinger

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Length: 35min 57sec (2157 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 14 2023