Professional building comfort problem-solver specializing in safe, healthy, durable, and efficient buildings.

We've found it to be much cheaper to pre-solve a future problem while the building only exists on paper. But all building problems will be solved. Eventually.

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

-Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Jeff has been working in the building science industry for the last decade and a half and looks forward to the day when he doesn't need to explain what that is, because all the lessons learned will just be the way things are done. At that point, we won't need inspections, because we have baked the quality right in.

He has worked in a firm, under several, of what many would consider, the biggest names in the building science industry, in North America, focusing on preventing and resolving problems related to building design, construction and operation and are leaders in understanding of how all phases of water interact with buildings, subsequent IAQ issues and forensic investigations.

His work included ordering coffee and emptying mousetraps, all phases of customer service, handling business matters for the principles, gathering data, project coordination, and got to sit in on 100's of formal and informal seminars and side discussions and read the reports for 100's of projects. Jeff arranged one of the most concentrated annual gatherings of experts that exists -quite the masterclass.

He later joined a firm that specializes in Commercial HVAC Commissioning. He was shocked to learn that this is a necessary industry and it makes perfect sense now why so many people are uncomfortable despite the large financial expenses incurred to ensure the opposite.

Jeff has been running Build Tight-Ventilate Right LLC - a Home Energy Rating System Rater business for over a decade. Using construction drawings, site visits and software to conduct energy analysis of the existing, and/or proposed home design, Jeff uses that to to inform builders and homeowners of opportunities that exist during design and construction of the home, then verifies those opportunities during commissioning. As a licensed construction supervisor for the State of Massachusetts, he also lives within the realities of the construction field and can help bridge gaps between design professionals, contractors, manufacturers and building owners.

For the past several years, Jeff have been volunteering in the design department for a non-profit as the representative in the building science specialty group in one of 10 zones in the United States.

That work specializes in the designing, building, renovating, and maintaining religious facilities, so the work could be carried out in the most efficient and economical manner, and serves as a basis for training younger and inexperienced individuals from all walks of life to have a meaningful share and make the work lighter for all, as well as empower some to go on to support the work worldwide including through disaster-relief efforts.

Over the years, Jeff has seen how design direction based on a general understanding of physics worked to solve all sorts of issues that couldn’t be handled otherwise. He considers himself a generalist.

He has a general understanding that the generals in the military are also generalists and wants to harvest some value from that concept as there seems to be a lack of them right now in the building industry. It's probably all the fault of Louis XIV.

Speaking of that, Jeff is "into" history and is continually fascinated at the unrecognized patterns win the building industry, especially here in the Northeast corner of the US, and ESPECIALLY IN THE MERRIMACK VALLEY. All is not lost. He is continuously improving his farmhouse (1796!) and barn, or at least stocking them with tools.

At one point, Jeff was pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture degree, until he realized how little architects are actually paid. He is still paying for the unfinished degree. He is a worm farmer. At last check has kept an isolated colony of red wigglers alive since July of 2017. He has been married to the same woman continuously since 1996. Jeff and Denise love wine and cheese and pick up continuously after Jeff, and their dog, Clyde.

In 2020, Jeff nearly shot his eye out while working on a snowblower. A spring loaded pin crushed the globe of his eye and if the angle of attack were any greater, there wouldn’t be as much of a story to tell. But it was after that near-death experience, he knew he needed a way to apply all of that knowledge to help his own clients. homecomfortcoach.com is that application.

How does Jeff, as a one-eyed person, find so many problems? It helps to know where to look.

There is no harsher teacher than failure. When a client calls a contractor to solve a building issue and that "solution" crates a bigger problem, often the client is at wit's end. Worse is when a client has lived through that pain and seeks instead, a new contractor to build something new, or has purchased a new home in an aggressively-priced market, and the building problems follow to the new home. That. Is maddening.

Finding the problem is the easy part. We specialize in providing good/better/best solutions that serve as a bridge between the client and the contractor, or the client and the designer. Or sometimes, between the client, designer and contractor.

Let us build a bridge for you.