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Stellar Building Performance serves Palm City, the largest community in Martin County, from the Martin Downs corridor west along Martin Highway and out to the new Newfield villages.
What Is a Blower Door Test?
A blower door test measures how much air leaks through the finished building envelope. In Palm City it is required on every new home with conditioned living space, and given the largest community in Martin County, and where most of the county’s new construction is going, most of that work runs on a schedule that does not leave room for a re-test.
We handle Newfield by Mattamy Homes, over 3,800 acres planned for roughly 4,000 homes across nine villages alongside one-off spec work. 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 result documents compliance under the Florida Energy Conservation Code before Martin County Building Department signs off.
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Florida Energy Code Blower Door Requirements
The Florida Energy Conservation Code governs every residential permit in Palm City, and it applies to any conditioned structure built as living space.
Palm City is an unincorporated community, not a municipality, so there is no city building department. Every residential permit here is issued and inspected by the Martin County Building Department.
Palm City is also where most of the county’s new construction is going. Newfield by Mattamy Homes covers more than 3,800 acres and is planned for roughly 4,000 homes across nine villages with about 70 percent of the land left as open space, on a buildout measured in years rather than seasons. That means repeating plan types, phased closings, and a testing schedule that has to keep pace with production rather than react to 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. Martin County’s energy form asks for the report before the certificate of occupancy is issued.
Why is Blower Door Testing Beneficial?
On a production schedule in Palm City, a failed blower door test is not one problem — it is the same problem repeated across every house on that plan.
Excessive air leakage through the building envelope can cause:
For Palm City 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 Palm City to be as easy as possible.
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Schedule your test
You tell us the Palm City address and when the home will be ready. Production at Newfield’s scale means the testing schedule has to keep pace rather than react.
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onsite testing
We show up at the Palm City address with everything needed. The blower door is sealed into an exterior doorway and the house is brought up to test pressure.
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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. If it is over, we identify where it is going rather than just handing you a fail.
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Report delivered same day via email
Everyone on the Palm City 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
Typically 30 to 60 minutes for a Palm City home. The setup takes longer than the measurement itself, and nothing about it is destructive.
In Palm City, 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 Palm City 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.
Yes. If blower door testing is on the permit and the result is not documented, Martin County Building Department can hold final approval until it is. That is the whole reason to use a provider who is local to Palm City and shows up when they said they would.
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 Palm City while we test — we only need the openings closed and the house in its final configuration.
Want the longer version? Read our complete blower door testing FAQ.
Blower Door Testing Code Reference
Blower Door Test Florida Requirements Explained
Blower door testing has been required for all new residential dwellings in Palm City 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 Palm City. 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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Helping Palm City Builders Stay on Schedule
Fast Scheduling
Testing in Palm City gets scheduled to land before the inspection, not chase it.
accurate results
Calibrated equipment and a RESNET certified inspector, so the number holds up when Martin County Building Department reviews it.
immediate reports
Same-day digital reporting to the whole Palm City project team, with deficiencies named if there are any.
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