April 2024 - Ryan Puckett on Heat Pumps, Education, and Growing With the Industry
WYSL/ Wise Home Energy Show
Jeff Flaherty brings in Ryan Puckett, Wise Home Energy's general manager, to talk about his path from insulation installer straight out of college in 2009 to running the company. Ryan covers why heat pumps changed everything he thought he knew about home performance, why he installed a gas furnace in his own house and then immediately regretted it when he saw what inverter heat pumps could do, and why the contractors who skip the national conferences are the ones still doing things wrong. Jeff opens with a client who had new HVAC, then insulation, and now wants an energy assessment, essentially doing every major project in the wrong order. He also covers a job from eight years ago where the homeowner remodeled their bathroom, failed to seal or duct the new bath fan, pulled the attic hatch off and didn't reinstall it, then covered the soffit vents with solid vinyl trim, and is now wondering why there's water in the attic. Plus why "pretty good" is not a blower door result, and why houses are the least quality-controlled thing we build compared to boats and cars.
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