Sam Myers

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · How Building Science Reduces Costly Callbacks with Sam Myers · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

That allows them to be a lot more accurate in whatever they're going to prescribe after that.

A lot of times it's a mix.

I live in the southeast.

We do this really stupid thing where we put all of our duct systems outside of the building enclosure.

So our air handler, our ducts are either in a hot, vented attic or in a damp, vented crawl space.

So it's really working against itself.

And so a lot of times what we see is like, OK, well, just where the system is placed.

isn't doing a lot for you uh and so does it make sense to repair what's there do we encapsulate the attic do we encapsulate the crawl space do we improve the building first and then look at the mechanicals so a lot of the times that's what we look at and it depends on the budget too i mean a lot of the times uh if the you know if the budget isn't quite there there's still some things that we can do to improve it we won't make it what we would consider you know perfect but uh there's still a lot you can do in between so

Yeah, it's, you know, a lot of times it depends on the state because our building codes are state by state.

And the way that it works is we have what's called a voluntary code that some of this stuff falls under.

So that's the IECC, the International Energy Conservation Code.

And so I think right now we're on 2024, but states can adopt whatever version of that that they want to and then tweak it to be whatever they want.

So, for example, in North Carolina here, we're on the 2018 IECC with amendments, which means they removed their tightness testing.

So why?

Yeah, because we have certain groups with lots of money that lobby to keep codes the way that they are.

It is.

And it's really the homeowners are the ones that are really paying for it because they end up with a subpar product that they have to encapsulate their family in and then constantly call contractors to figure out what's wrong.

Totally.

So it's counterproductive, but that's the world we live in, unfortunately.

And it's hard to really kind of keep a finger on the pulse of how all of that is changing, because within each state, you have up to 100 or more jurisdictions, and they're all doing things differently.

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