Builder Show Best and Worst: IBS 2022 Healthy Home Highlights

[@inspectitrite4585]

Education is key! Telling homeowners that they wasted thousands of dollars based on a contractors suggestion that just made problems worse for them is difficult but I find it very important to teach them why

[@HomePerformance]

Preach, Yaakov

[@ABZD019]

It is hugely unfortunate that trades education doesn't get the in-depth broad-spectrum education that it really, REALLY badly needs. I've never seen any industry like construction that's both essential and one of those needs we're taught in school (shelter, food, etc), but relies so little on education. I learned more about cooking and the science of food chemistry in school than I did about the building that protects me. Well, supposedly protects me but also kinda poisons me.

[@alexanderjamieson7971]

That fabric mask isn't doing much anyways. Take it from a nurse who contracted omicron while wearing a sealed N95, sacrificial K-N95 over it, and face shield. You wouldn't use a fabric filter in your ERV.

[@HomePerformance]

This mask is an N95. It’s just made for style too.

[@HomePerformance]

Called Zenano if you’d like to check them out.

[@AmandaComeauCreates]

I hope you're considering a short isolated stay in the tiny when you go home, just in case the clowns without masks have in fact got you infected. I live with unvaccinated kids (niece with asthma below the age allowed) and it makes me so nervous to consider I might bring it home and infect her :(

[@thenexthobby]

Alex, yours is an odd comment coming from a nurse. I hope I'm not attacking you when I ask, do we think surgeons wear masks, a hat, a smock to protect themselves? Does gear suddenly have a different purpose depending on who wears it? Masks don't imply guaranteed protection against infiltration, regardless of design. Yeah they can help, but that's not the same as saying they "will" work against infiltration. And omicron is so contagious it's naive to assume it came from work and not the supermarket or any other random encounter. *Masks help contain spread. The personal prevention only works if someone **_else_** masks up.* Masks are also used for woodworking, demo/home remodel projects as PPE because the chemicals are different. They may all be N95 or whatever, but N95 alone doesn't say much.

[@alexanderjamieson7971]

@The Next Hobby Friday December 31st, 2021, our restorative CNA did a 20-minute therapy session with a resident. This resident had no family visitors, had their booster dose at the end of October 2021. This CNA, who received their booster dose the 2nd week of December, had a headache during this therapy session with this resident. She was wearing a surgical mask the entire time. She started coughing and having a runny nose later in the day. She performed a rapid antigen test that was negative, then a PCR test that was mailed out to a lab. Sunday night, January 2nd, my DON received the results of this CNAs PCR test. It was positive. I worked 3rd shift Sunday night, January 2nd. I performed a rapid antigen test before entering the facility that was negative. In the facility, I wore a N95 respirator with faceshield. 15 minutes into my shift, my DON calls and informs that I need to perform a rapid antigen test on the above-mentioned resident due to the possible exposure from that CNA whose PCR test results just came back positive. This resident's rapid test displayed positivity immediately. A 2nd rapid test from a different box/lot number confirmed results. We quarantined this resident to their room and set up the additional PPE station beside it. When entering their room, I wore: sacrificial K-N95 over sealed N95, faceshield, disposable gown, and double gloves. Exiting resident room: discard gown with top layer gloves, sanitize faceshield with 70% isopropyl alcohol wipes infused with quarternary ammonia followed with regular isopropyl alcohol wipes, remove sacrificial K-N95 with base layer gloves on, throw away gloves and sacrificial K-N95, hand sanitizer, place faceshield back on, wash hands, hand sanitizer again. All staff are now required to wear N95 respirator in the unit. Monday morning, January 3rd, after shift, I exit the unit and go to the testing location. Perform rapid antigen test, negative. Perform PCR test, which comes back negative two days later. I wash my hands, sanitize, wash my face, put on a new N95, and drive home. I stay in the car with the windows down, have my wife drop me off at our other house that we are renovating, which is a 30 minute walk from my facility, so I can quarantine since I have been exposed. Monday night, walk to work, rapid test negative. All of the other residents were tested earlier that day and were all negative. Same PPE routine as the above mentioned when entering the positive resident's room to give medications, treatments, cleaning, etc. Tuesday morning, the 4th, rapid test negative, walk straight to my 2nd house. Tuesday night walk straight to work, rapid test negative. Still, only the one resident positive. Work that shift, same diligence with PPE, hygiene, etc. Wednesday morning, the 5th, I perform my after shift rapid test, and it's positive. I don't have symptoms yet. I perform a 2nd rapid test from a different lot number, and it is immediately positive. I perform a PCR test and inform my DON so that she can mail it off to the lab. That PCR test came back positive two days later. That Wednesday night, I developed symptoms, headache, fever, and bodyaches. I was over symptoms after three days. I am not vaccinated, I was granted an exemption in October 2021. I stayed quarantined away from my family, alone in our 2nd home. That same Wednesday, still, no additional residents had tested positive yet. Unfortunately, that positive resident sneaked out of their room during lunch. Thursday, additional residents tested positive, and by that Sunday, 22 residents became positive, and all had their booster dose a couple of months prior at the end of October 2021. I went back to work Monday the 10th to take care of all of the positive residents. I stayed quarantined in our 2nd home until I tested negative on a rapid antigen test, which didn't happen until 12 days after my initial positive test. I was surprised I contracted covid despite my thorough and methodical use of N95 and additional PPE, hygiene, etc. I discovered a study on N95s published in 2006 in the American Journal of Infection Control. At best, N95s prevents about 70% of respiratory viruses from entering the wearer's airway. Anything less 99% is irrelevant, however. Respiratory viruses, unlike silica dust, asbestos, saw dust, and all the respiratory hazards that N95s are actually designed for, repilcate in the mucosa of the nasopharynx. Even if the N95 were truly blocking a full 95% of respiratory virus (they don't) that 5% that still gets in will still infect tissue and replicate. There was just an article published in the evidence based medicine, Cochrane review that completed an analysis of all controlled studies of N95 masking in healthcare workers at preventing transmission respiratory of illness and it found no difference versus not wearing mask.

[@RangerJones]

Must be cali

[@stealthirl]

Wish there was someone like you here in Ireland, most homes still only built with natural ventilation via multiple 3-5" holes in every room except the kitchen and any room with a fireplace. My home didn't even have a hole or extract fan in the en-suite.

[@HomePerformance]

Wow, interesting Damien! Didn’t know that!

[@inspectitrite4585]

No wonder why I felt crappy at the end of the day. BTW it was great meeting you

[@HomePerformance]

Should have worn our tinfoil hats! Back atcha man.

[@chriswilson7138]

Lots of cool stuff. Super cool you got to chat with Ross T.

[@HomePerformance]

Ross TEE!

[@2ndChanceAtLife]

CIRS patient here, super concerned about ventilation, humidity, mold. Brand new apartment has stove venting to the interior of the unit. Minimal exhaust strength in the restroom. Vinyl plank flooring....if water (or pet urine) spills on the floor, it seeps down into the cracks and creates an unseen mold problem. Why do places like this pass code? Why does the IBC allow this "crap" to be built?

[@HomePerformance]

So. Many. Reasons. Sorry you have been the recipient of the crap. You should head outta there.

[@2ndChanceAtLife]

@@HomePerformance After losing 100% of my assets, can't move. There needs to be LAWS against this! Keep up the quality work!

[@HomePerformance]

Damn

[@jeffreyfontenot2102]

Elite water systems update coming?

[@HomePerformance]

Just shot it last week, Jeff, coming asap

[@jeffreyfontenot2102]

@@HomePerformance Thanks man!

[@brettzeigerbacher2314]

I know Broan is a sponsor but they are looking on paper like they have a really comprehensive system now for house and vent hood ventilation that is a lot more "set it and forget it" than every other product has been until now. I'd be nice to see a rundown of what they actually have working instead of just a lot of the marketing spin. I might switch to that for my install if it actually does what they say it does.

[@HomePerformance]

FYI Brett, we seek out our sponsors, not the other way around. Broan has had it goin on since they acquired Venmar, and yes, they are going further than many others with innovations. Feature vids coming soon on a few things, stay tuned (I know you will buddy).

[@brettzeigerbacher2314]

@@HomePerformance Thanks Corbett! Looking forward to it.

[@superspeeder]

I need to know more about that Elite carbon filter. Is it planned as a replacement for/alternative to RO?

[@HomePerformance]

Videos coming soon, but yes, that’s what it seems like

[@melissamybubbles6139]

Automatic, heat-adjusted fan? Better tornado rooms? Self-closing attic vents to lessen fire spread? Ooh. Venting a fireplace into a conference room instead of setting up an outside demonstration? Why? I respect the guy who tries to get the spec home subs to listen to him about home performance.

[@HomePerformance]

Thanks for watching the whole thing, bud!

[@AmandaComeauCreates]

The irony is the indoor air quality of the building is worse off with those combustion gases, at a conference about the 'best' lol

[@HomePerformance]

🥲

[@jessehansen3951]

You are concerned about co2 levels and you are one of the few that has a mask on😅😂. You should measure the concentration of co2 in your mask?

[@johnwhite2576]

but that brown vent fan wont pick up heat from an induction cooktop will it ??

[@HomePerformance]

Yes it will- the pots snd pans get hot too

[@hickorydragon8114]

Hey corbett, did you measure the [testosterone] level in there?

[@HomePerformance]

It was quite vinegary, yes

[@lynneuribeross2695]

Carbon monoxide is a problem not dioxide, you must of slept in science class.

[@HomePerformance]

Both are a problem, the symptoms are apparently the same. One is a marker of human breath pollution, the other of combustion gas spillage.

[@dingdongmagee]

No masks woooo