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Understanding Radiative Cooling
Why are my wife's hands like ice cubes when the house is 68℉?
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Wood Moisture Content: What Are We Measuring?
Understanding the relationship between wood and water can make you a better builder
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Making Sense of Minisplits
Find out if this type of energy-efficient electric heating and cooling system is right for your home
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Living Safely With Combustion Appliances
How combustion can create problems and what you can do to prevent them
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Wingnut Blower-Door Testing
The amount of air leakage allowed by code is an informational eye-opener
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Love Is More Important Than Building Science
A Thanksgiving story
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Fibrous Insulation Types and Considerations
Ruminations on the recycled content and carbon load of "warm and fluffy" insulation types
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Why We Need Building Sensors
Understanding the payoff of diagnostic monitoring tools
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The House My Dad Built
Green-building basics made a big difference when upgrading my childhood home
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Using a Blower Door for Zonal-Pressure Testing
By now, most of us working in the green-building industry know what a blower door is. It’s a tool to measure the air tightness of a house. I’ve owned my…