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Stellar Building Performance serves Cocoa Beach, from the Thousand Islands on the river side across to five and a half miles of oceanfront, for teardown-rebuild, condo and substantial-improvement work.
What Is a Blower Door Test?
There is no greenfield left in Cocoa Beach. It is a built-out beach city with only 4.66 square miles of land and a voter-approved 45-foot height cap, and the work is teardown-and-rebuild single family and condo redevelopment.
A blower door test measures how much air leaks through the finished building envelope. A calibrated fan is sealed into an exterior doorway and the house is brought to a 50 Pascal pressure difference while the fan measures the air needed to hold it there.
Coastal detailing and the local flood rules shape what that number comes out at — plenty of remodels here cross the 50 percent of market value substantial improvement threshold without the owner expecting it, which brings the current energy code with it — and the report goes to the City of Cocoa Beach Building Division under the Florida Energy Conservation Code.
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Florida Energy Code Blower Door Requirements
The Florida Energy Conservation Code governs every residential permit in Cocoa Beach, and it applies to any conditioned structure built as living space.
Cocoa Beach runs its own City of Cocoa Beach Building Division. The city has only 4.66 square miles of land out of 15.19 total, and voters approved a 45-foot building height cap in 2002, so there is no greenfield and no production subdivision here. What we test is teardown-and-rebuild single family, condo redevelopment and substantial improvements to existing stock.
That last category is the one to watch. Once a remodel crosses the 50 percent of market value substantial-improvement threshold, the building has to be brought into compliance as though it were new, which brings the envelope requirement with it. Plenty of Cocoa Beach remodels cross that line without the owner expecting it.
Prescriptive-path homes must not exceed 7 Air Changes per Hour at 50 Pascals, and performance-path homes are held to whatever their energy calculation specifies. All Brevard jurisdictions are on the 2023 Florida Building Code, 8th Edition.
Why is Blower Door Testing Beneficial?
Salt air, high humidity and long cooling seasons make a leaky Cocoa Beach home expensive in ways the owner feels year round.
Excessive air leakage through the building envelope can cause:
For Cocoa Beach projects the test does two jobs at once: it satisfies the City of Cocoa Beach Building Division and it tells the builder whether the assembly actually performed the way it was drawn.
How We Keep Our Services Simple and Easy
We want completing your Blower Door Testing in Cocoa Beach to be as easy as possible.
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Schedule your test
You tell us the Cocoa Beach address and when the home will be ready. We coordinate around the city’s review calendar.
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onsite testing
The blower door is sealed into an exterior doorway and the house is brought up to test pressure. We work around whoever else is still on site in Cocoa Beach, so nobody has to clear out.
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Diagnostics and Measurements
We measure the envelope leakage rate and compare it against the limit for the compliance path on your plans. We note the problem areas while we are still standing in the house.
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Report delivered same day via email
Everyone on the Cocoa Beach project team gets the signed report the same day, not on the next visit.
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Ready for Final Inspection approval
With the report on file, the City of Cocoa Beach Building Division can close out the permit and issue the certificate of occupancy.
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Frequently asked questions about Blower Door Testing
Budget half an hour to an hour on site in Cocoa Beach, depending on the size of the house. Nothing is drilled, cut or removed.
In Cocoa Beach, blower door testing is generally required for new residential buildings with conditioned living space. That can include single-family homes, duplexes, townhomes, apartments, guest houses, and additions where enclosed space is being conditioned for occupancy.
Common Structures Like:
Additional Structures Like:
A blower door test in Cocoa Beach is usually completed near the end of construction, once the building envelope is in place and the home is getting close to final inspection or Certificate of Occupancy review.
It can. The City of Cocoa Beach Building Division needs the documented result in the file before it closes the permit, so a missing report in Cocoa Beach is a stalled CO. We schedule so that does not happen.
It is recommended to test as close to completion as possible. Our best suggestion is to be one of the last vendors in the project before the cleaners do their final clean. We provide a pre-inspection, get ready checklist in all of our proposals that is designed to make being prepared for your blower door test as simple and easy as possible.
In most cases, no. Other trades can keep working in Cocoa Beach while we test — we only need the openings closed and the house in its final configuration.
Blower Door Testing Code Reference
Blower Door Test Florida Requirements Explained
Blower door testing has been required for all new residential dwellings in Cocoa Beach since the 2010 Florida Building Code, and the requirement carries forward in the current 2023 Eighth Edition.
Which number your project is tested against depends on the compliance path. The prescriptive method caps envelope leakage at 7 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals in Florida Climate Zone 2, which covers Cocoa Beach. Projects documented through the performance or ERI path are tested against whatever the energy calculation for that specific home specifies, and that target is often tighter than 7. Two homes on the same street can carry different numbers.
We keep the full code citations, including the exact language from R402.4.1.2, R403.3.3 and R405, on our main blower door page: read the full Florida blower door code reference.
questions? give us a call, this is our specialty!
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Energy Code Calculations
Energy performance calculations required for Florida residential building permits and code compliance documentation.
Helping Cocoa Beach Builders Stay on Schedule
Fast Scheduling
We know how Cocoa Beach books inspections, and we test to fit that rather than fight it.
accurate results
A RESNET certified inspector and calibrated gear — results the City of Cocoa Beach Building Division will accept without a second visit.
immediate reports
Same-day digital reporting to the whole Cocoa Beach project team, with deficiencies named if there are any.
Other Areas We Serve
Local blower door testing in Cocoa Beach, with additional service throughout Brevard County, Indian River County, St. Lucie County, Martin County, and Okeechobee County.
