Stop Guessing. Start Testing.
About
Twenty years of finding out why houses don’t work.
I’m Eric George. I’ve spent more than two decades around insulation, weatherization, energy efficiency and building science — and thousands of houses have taught me that the obvious answer is usually the wrong one.
How I got here
I started where the damage already happened.
My first experience with buildings was in the 1990s, working in my parents’ fire and water damage restoration business. You learn something specific in that work: you see what happens to a house after things go wrong, and you start asking why it went wrong in the first place.
That question has been my whole career. It took me from restoration into insulation and weatherization, then into testing and diagnostics, and eventually to teaching other people how houses actually work.
Along the way I’ve evaluated thousands of homes — new construction and hundred-year-old houses, small ranches and additions nobody planned properly. Enough of them to know that two houses with the same complaint rarely have the same cause.
- 20+ Years in home performance
- Thousands of homes evaluated
- RESNET Certified HERS Rater
- Crestwood, KY serving Louisville & Southern Indiana
The path
Restoration, then insulation, then testing.
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The 1990s — fire and water damage restoration
My parents’ business. I spent my early years in houses that had already failed, taking them apart and putting them back together.
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2004 — running an insulation and weatherization company
Hands-on work on the building enclosure, and a real education in how hard it is to improve an older home without creating a new problem somewhere else.
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2008 — founded Building Performance Group
I moved to third-party inspections and diagnostics for builders and homeowners. Since then: thousands of HERS Ratings on new homes, and energy audits on existing ones.
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Today — Home Performance Pro
Diagnostic inspections for homeowners who have a problem nobody has been able to explain, and teaching the same building science to homeowners and contractors.
How I work
Whole house, tested — not room by room, guessed.
Seemingly unrelated problems usually turn out to be connected. A humidity complaint upstairs and a cold floor downstairs can have one cause between them, and you only see it if you look at the whole house.
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Blower-door and pressure testing
How much air the house moves, and which way it’s going.
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Infrared thermography
What’s happening behind finished surfaces, without opening them up.
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HVAC and duct-system diagnostics
Airflow and static pressure — what the equipment actually delivers.
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Moisture and humidity analysis
Where the water is, where it came from, and where it’s condensing.
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Insulation and air-barrier evaluation
Whether what’s installed is doing the job it was installed to do.
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Indoor air-quality investigation
Where your indoor air is coming from, and what it brings with it.
Training & certification
What I’m certified in, and what I’ve trained in.
Worth being precise about, because plenty of people aren’t.
Current certification
- RESNET Certified HERS Rater
Trained in, certifications previously held
- BPI Building Analyst
- BPI Building Technician
- NCI Residential System Performance Specialist
- NCI Duct System Optimization Specialist
- NCI Residential Air Balancer
Areas of specialty
- Building performance diagnostics
- Enclosure, insulation and air leakage
- Blower-door, pressure and infrared testing
- HVAC, airflow and duct performance
- Moisture, humidity and condensation
- Indoor air quality
- New-construction energy ratings
- Existing-home energy audits
- Building science education
Training in both the building envelope and mechanical systems is the point. Most people work one side or the other, and most house problems live where the two meet.
Teaching
Teaching what I find.
I make the Home Performance Pro YouTube channel, which teaches the fundamentals of building science and home performance in plain language — for homeowners who want to understand their own house, and for contractors who want to be better at diagnosing them.
If you’re not ready to hire anybody, start there. It’s free, and it may be all you need.
Where to find it
- The Home Performance Pro YouTube channel — free
- The Home Comfort Advisor course — ten chapters, free on the channel
- Contractor training, taught by someone still in the field
Stop Guessing.
Start Testing.
If your house has a problem nobody has been able to explain, that’s the kind of work I’ve been doing for twenty years.
Or call (502) 509-2865 · Tell us what’s going on