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Stellar Building Performance serves Jensen Beach and the Indian River Lagoon shoreline on Martin County’s northern edge, from the Jensen Beach Causeway north to the St. Lucie County line.
What Is a Blower Door Test?
Before anything gets tested in Jensen Beach, one question has to be answered: who holds the permit. Jensen Beach is wedged between the incorporated Town of Ocean Breeze and the St. Lucie County line, and jurisdiction can change from one parcel to the next.
Jensen Beach is a lagoon-front community on Martin County’s northern edge, and the work runs to lagoon-front custom work and infill on older lots. 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. The report goes to whichever department is actually reviewing, documented 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 Jensen Beach, and it applies to any conditioned structure built as living space.
Jensen Beach is an unincorporated community, so its permits run through the Martin County Building Department.
Jurisdiction is the real issue in Jensen Beach. The community is wedged between the incorporated Town of Ocean Breeze and the St. Lucie County line, and it can change from one parcel to the next. A Jensen Beach mailing address does not settle which building department, or even which county, holds the permit. We verify the reviewing authority per address before scheduling.
Most of what we test here is lagoon-front custom work and infill on older lots rather than large production phases, which usually means more attention to the envelope detailing than to the volume.
Prescriptive-path homes must not exceed 7 Air Changes per Hour at 50 Pascals, and performance-path homes are held to their own energy calculation.
Why is Blower Door Testing Beneficial?
Past the paperwork question, a Jensen Beach home either holds its conditioned air or it does not.
Excessive air leakage through the building envelope can cause:
For Jensen Beach projects the test does two jobs at once: it satisfies Martin County Building Department 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 Jensen Beach to be as easy as possible.
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Schedule your test
You tell us the Jensen Beach address and when the home will be ready. We verify the reviewing authority per address before scheduling.
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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 Jensen 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 Jensen 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, Martin County Building Department 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 Jensen Beach, depending on the size of the house. Nothing is drilled, cut or removed.
In Jensen 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 Jensen 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. Martin County Building Department needs the documented result in the file before it closes the permit, so a missing report in Jensen 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 Jensen 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 Jensen 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 Jensen 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.
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Energy Code Calculations
Energy performance calculations required for Florida residential building permits and code compliance documentation.
Helping Jensen Beach Builders Stay on Schedule
Fast Scheduling
We know how Jensen Beach books inspections, and we test to fit that rather than fight it.
accurate results
A RESNET certified inspector and calibrated gear — results Martin County Building Department will accept without a second visit.
immediate reports
Same-day digital reporting to the whole Jensen Beach project team, with deficiencies named if there are any.
Other Areas We Serve
Local blower door testing in Jensen Beach, with additional service throughout Brevard County, Indian River County, St. Lucie County, Martin County, and Okeechobee County.
