Service, Tri-Cities
AeroBarrier air sealing for new construction
Computer-controlled air sealing for new homes, finished with a blower door test and a certificate for the builder.
Chapter 01
Where a new house leaks
A framed house looks tight and isn't. Air finds its way out along the top plates, through the rim joist, around window and door rough openings, and past every hole drilled for wire, pipe and duct. Most of those gaps are a fraction of a millimeter wide, tucked behind lumber where a caulk gun never reaches. Added together, they act like an open window in the wall.
That leakage costs a builder twice. The heating and cooling equipment Air-Tech installs across Pasco, Kennewick and Richland has to work against it, and the house has to pass a leakage test before it closes. AeroBarrier is built to find those small gaps from the inside, all at once, so nobody is hunting for them one at a time.
Air-Tech service van V7 with ladders on the rack, parked outside a shop
How the seal runs, start to finish
AeroBarrier is computer controlled. The crew covers finished floors and any opening that should stay open, then pressurizes the house and enters the builder's target ACH50, the number of times the air in the house would be replaced in an hour under test pressure. An atomized, water-based sealant travels with the escaping air and closes the leaks it finds.
Progress is reported every 60 seconds, so the crew watches the leakage number fall toward the target instead of guessing. When it arrives, the covers come off and the equipment goes out the door. Construction can resume within 30 minutes. The best window is at rough-in, or right after the first coat of drywall, when the framing is closed in but the house is still open to work.
Chapter 03
What the builder keeps
Every job includes a blower door test before sealing and another after, with the paperwork completed for the builder's records. An air sealing certificate, submitted to AeroBarrier and showing the results, comes with it. That gives an inspector in Washington a measured number to check against code instead of a promise, and it gives the builder a document to file.
Air-Tech offers AeroBarrier to home builders across Washington and Oregon, for single-family homes and multifamily buildings. It is one of only two HVAC contractors in the Tri-Cities certified to install it, and its air sealing arm trades as Innovative Air Sealing. For AeroBarrier scheduling call (509) 378-7440. For anything else, the main line is (509) 392-2021.
Licensed and insured. WA contractor licence AIRTESF899MN. Oregon CCB 228495. Call (509) 392-2021.