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Stellar Building Performance serves Palm Shores, the small lagoon-front town between Melbourne and Suntree, for custom residential and waterfront infill construction.
What Is a Blower Door Test?
A blower door test measures how much air leaks through the finished building envelope. In Palm Shores it applies to every new home with conditioned space, custom or not.
This is a 0.60 square mile lagoon-front town wedged between Melbourne and Suntree, building custom and waterfront infill, with no production subdivision here. The town building official’s charter explicitly covers coastal construction and environmentally sensitive lands, and much of the buildable land sits inside the county’s 197-foot lagoon septic buffer, so the testing window is narrower than it looks.
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. Results are documented against the Florida Energy Conservation Code for the Town of Palm Shores.
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Florida Energy Code Blower Door Requirements
The Florida Energy Conservation Code governs every residential permit in Palm Shores, and it applies to any conditioned structure built as living space.
Palm Shores is about 1,200 residents in 0.60 square miles sitting directly on the Indian River Lagoon, and it maintains its own building official through the Town of Palm Shores rather than deferring to the county.
That official’s charter explicitly covers coastal construction and environmentally sensitive lands, which tells you what drives approvals here. In a riverfront town this small, much of the buildable land sits inside the county’s 197-foot lagoon buffer, where new septic installations must use advanced treatment systems achieving at least 65 percent nitrogen removal under the county’s 2018 ordinance.
Everything we test in Palm Shores is custom or infill. There is no production subdivision here, which means each house is its own envelope rather than a repeating plan type, and the test is worth scheduling before the drywall is closed up rather than after.
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?
On custom work in Palm Shores the owner is usually standing right there when the number comes back, so it is worth getting right the first time.
Excessive air leakage through the building envelope can cause:
For Palm Shores projects the test does two jobs at once: it satisfies the Town of Palm Shores 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 Shores to be as easy as possible.
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Schedule your test
You tell us the Palm Shores address and when the home will be ready. We coordinate directly with the town office.
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onsite testing
We show up at the Palm Shores 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 Shores 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 Town of Palm Shores can close out the permit and issue the certificate of occupancy.
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Recent Blower Door Tests in Palm Shores and Brevard County
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Frequently asked questions about Blower Door Testing
Typically 30 to 60 minutes for a Palm Shores home. The setup takes longer than the measurement itself, and nothing about it is destructive.
In Palm Shores, 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 Shores 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, the Town of Palm Shores can hold final approval until it is. That is the whole reason to use a provider who is local to Palm Shores 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 Shores 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 Shores 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 Shores. 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 Shores Builders Stay on Schedule
Fast Scheduling
Testing in Palm Shores 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 the Town of Palm Shores reviews it.
immediate reports
Same-day digital reporting to the whole Palm Shores project team, with deficiencies named if there are any.
Other Areas We Serve
Local blower door testing in Palm Shores, with additional service throughout Brevard County, Indian River County, St. Lucie County, Martin County, and Okeechobee County.