If you were gonna buy a blower door....

[Tom Raymond]

...which one would you buy?

Who has the best training?

What other equipment would you suggest to purchase with it?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Tom

[john_opwin]

Minneapolis Blower Door .

[randynavarro]

Minneapolis. Along with the equipment comes very extensive manuals which will direct you how to do a proper blower door test. Learn the manuals then you'll know how to do a test. You'll be "trained." In fact, all the classes I've taken usually re-direct you right back to the Minneapolis manuals for proper procedures. There's also lots of other helpful information in those manuals.

There's no single class that I'm aware which deals specifically with blower door testing. Usually, the blower door stuff is merely one component of the overall pacakage - energy auditing. There's lots of options available for energy audit classes.

[Brad Manor]

I bought a Minneapolis unit about 6 months ago for the very reasons Randy mentioned. I have since taken an "Advanced Blower Door Training" course. It too focused on the Minneapolis unit.

-B

[hdrider57]

Minn. blower door along with a Duct Blaster, Retrotec has some awesome multifan units.

[Ori Rosen]

Welcome to 2021 I've run the Minneapolis model and the Retrotec blower doors and I can say that I prefer the Retrotec. The nanometer is better and I like the fact that I can connect it to my laptop and print out the results. As far as training Retrotec has extensive knowledge on their website but their certificate won't get you accredited here in Philadelphia. 

Ori

 

LocalEnergyAudits.com 

Ductworktesting.com 

BlowerDoorTester.com 

Edited February 22, 2021 by Ori Rosen